Find flowers fascinating?
You’ll love these short flower quotes!
They’re ideal to accompany your flower photos – as Instagram captions, or as graphics when you use apps to add text to photos.
I’ve collected the shortest quotes around, including flower quotes about life, beauty, gardens, and weeds – with images to inspire your own creations.
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Short flower quotes
These super short sayings are perfect to make picture quotes online, or use on your other creations like T shirts, mugs, or aprons.
Just bloom.
~Unknown
Earth laughs in flowers.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Because of you, I bloom.
~Dani
Flowers really do intoxicate me.
~Vita Sackville-West
April showers bring May flowers.
~Unknown
A flower blossoms for its own joy.
~Oscar Wilde
Where flowers bloom so does hope.
~Lady Bird Johnson
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
~Heinrich Heine
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Every flower blooms in its own time.
~Ken Petti
Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
~John Lennon
I must have flowers, always, and always.
~Claude Monet
Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.
~Gerard de Nerval
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
~Theodore Roethke
Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!
~Mehmet Murat ildan
Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.
~G.K. Chesterton
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
~Claude Monet
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
~Kakuzō Okakura
Flowers are the Romeos and the Juliets of the nature!
~Mehmet Murat ildan
I say again that we have much to hope from the flowers.
~Conan Doyle
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair…
~Susan Polis Shutz
Flowers didn’t ask to be flowers and I didn’t ask to be me.
~Kurt Vonnegut
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.
~Robert Leighton
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
~John Ruskin
She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes.
~Arundhati Roy
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Flower quotes about life
Be careful with words. They can be both flowers and bruises.
~Anne Sexton
Without darkness, nothing comes to birth,
As without light, nothing flowers.
~May Sarton
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
~Chinese Proverb
May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary
~Xan Oku
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
~Maurice Maeterlinck
Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water.
~Brian Jacques
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~The Koran
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
~Jean Giraudoux
You can’t be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion, or challenge the ideology of a violet.
~Hal Borland
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
~Walt Whitman
Plant what you want to see grow.
~Dani
Check out this collection of 133 positive quotes for life.
Then come back and keep scrolling for more bouquets of flower quotes!
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Flower garden quotes
Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.
~Luther Burbank
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
~Walt Whitman
Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.
~Clare Ansberry
Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
~Steve Maraboli
Like every other seed, they turn into a beautiful flower.
~Sally Wen
Lowly seeds are nourished in the earth, and then later the ravishing blooms appear.
~Moderata Fonte
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
~Unknown
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.
~John Harrigan
Little deeds are like seeds,
They grow to flowers or weeds.
~Daniel D. Palmer
I bet you’ll enjoy these love for nature quotes.
Or keep going, because there are yet more flower sayings below!
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Wildflower and weed quotes
One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.
~Susan Wittig Albert
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
Sheryl Crow
The first wildflower of the year is like land after sea.
~Thomas Wentworth Higginson
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.
~Edward Abbey
A weed is but an unloved flower.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.
~A.A. Milne
If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
~Andrew Mason
The difference between a weed and a flower is all in how we name it.
~Dani
Keep the encouragement going with these motivational quotes.
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Flower quotes about beauty
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers whisper “Beauty!” to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.
~Dr. SunWolf
A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.
~Terri Guillemets
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation.
~Stephen King, Salem’s Lot
Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
~Jim Carrey
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
~Henry Beecher
How can one help shivering with delight when one’s hot fingers close around the stem of a live flower, cool from the shade and stiff with newborn vigor!
~Colette
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.
~Lydia M. Child
Check out the best inspirational quotes… or keep going here!
Flower quotes about joy
If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.
~Terri Guillemets
Flowers are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.
~Dodinsky
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
~Iris Murdoch
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
~Luther Burbank
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
~Edna St. Vincent Millay
…where always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
~E.E. Cummings
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But of course, there are still more flower quotes and sayings below 😉
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More flower quotes
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~Basho
‘God will reward you,’ he said. ‘You must be an angel since you care for flowers.’
~Victor Hugo
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
~Beverly Nichols
‘Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes!
~William Wordsworth
Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~Francis Thompson
Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?
~Robert Brault
I hope someday to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.
~Robert Brault
Have you seen our April quotes?
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
~Tennessee Williams
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
~Antonio Porchia
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
~Ikkyu Sojun
Look at us, said the violets blooming at her feet, all last winter we slept in the seeming death but at the right time God awakened us, and here we are to comfort you.
~Edward Payson Rod
Pluck not the wayside flower;
It is the traveler’s dower.
~William Allingham
The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.
~Auguste Rodin
The flower offered of itself
And eloquently spoke
Of Gods
In languages of rainbows
Perfumes
And secret silence…
~Phillip Pulfrey
Don’t miss this collection of Spring quotes.
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.
~John Muir
With daffodils mad footnotes for the spring,
And asters purple asterisks for autumn.
~Conrad Aiken
The poet’s darling.
~William Wordsworth, To the Daisy
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.
~Gertrude S. Wister
God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
~From a saying by Jacques Deval
If our destiny stems from our name, then I weep for the flower named Wilt.
~Jarod Kintz
Conclusion
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