150 Short Flower Quotes to Inspire Your Love of Beauty

Find flowers fascinating?

You’ll love these short flower quotes!

This collection has the shortest quotes around, including:

• Flower quotes about life
• Flower love quotes
• Flower quotes about beauty and joy
• Flower garden quotes

They’re ideal to accompany your flower photos – as Instagram captions, or as graphics when you use apps to add text to photos.

With images to inspire your own creations.

Let’s stroll in right now!

Very Short Flower Quotes

These super short flower 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

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 Love Quotes

From very short quotes about flowers and love, to longer ones!

I love you bunches.
~ Unknown

My love for you blossoms every day.
~ Unknown

In the garden of love, flowers don’t die.
~ Nitya Prakash

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.
~ John Lennon

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
~ Victor Hugo

A sunflower teaches us so much about love.
~ Samrah Ahmad

Pink roses are for love hopeful and expectant.
~ Unknown

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.
~ Ana Claudia Antunes

She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind.
~ Erin Hanson

A relationship is like a rose. How long it lasts, no one knows.
~Rob Cella

Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Stevie Wonder

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
~ Max Muller

…where always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.
~ e.e. cummings

May those whose hell it is to hate and hurt be turned into lovers bringing flowers.
~ Shantideva

Smile to the world and smile to the people you love, as a sunflower smiles at the sun.
~ Remez Sasson

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.
~ Thomas Moore

It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.
~ Lou Rawls

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller

Flower Quotes about Life

Flowers can give us cues about life, via these quotes!

Every flower must grow through dirt.
~ Laurie Jean Sennott

We are all golden sunflowers inside.
~ Allen Ginsberg

Every flower blooms at its own pace.
~ Suzy Kassem

Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.
~ Michele Farabee

Learn from flowers – always angle towards the sun.
~ Maureen Joyce Connolly

Be like a flower. Survive the rain but use it to grow.
~ Unknown

Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.
~ Shannon Mullen

 

May the flowers remind us why the rain was so necessary.
~ Xan Oku

Be careful with words. They can be both flowers and bruises.
~ Anne Sexton

Life is like a bud, it always dreams to bloom like a flower.
~ Debasish Mridha

Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.
~ Stephen Richards

Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.
~ Unknown

Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.
~ Ellen Everett

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
~ Mao Zedong

Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.
~ Bryant McGill

Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.
~ Mark Twain

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
~ D. H. Lawrence

A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.
~ Zen Shin

A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo

Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
~ Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
~ Henry David Thoreau

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
~ The Koran

If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.
~ Buddha

 

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

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
~ Henri Matisse

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments.
~ Corita Kent

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!

Flower Garden Quotes

A flower garden brings all the beauty of flowers together! Enjoy these quotes about flower gardens.

Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.
~ Luther Burbank

Flowers are the music of the ground
From earth’s lips spoken without sound.
~ Edwin Curran

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

To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.
~ Audrey Hepburn

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
~ Helen Keller

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

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.
~ Herbert Rappaport

When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight.
~ William Shakespeare

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!

 

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 Ward 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

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Flower Quotes about Joy

Flowers bring joy to the world, and these quotes celebrate it!

To me, flowers are happiness.
~ Stefano Gabbana

All nature wears one universal grin.
~ Henry Fielding

The Amen of nature is always a flower.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.
~ Japanese Proverb

Flowers are the remnants of paradise on earth.
~ John of Kronstadt

Flowers are like friends; They bring color to your world.
~ Unknown

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
~ Matsuo Basho

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.
~ Luther Burbank

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 are those little colorful beacons of the sun from which we get sunshine when dark, somber skies blanket our thoughts.
~ Dodinsky

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

Don’t miss this collection of Spring quotes.

Funny Flower Quotes

If Earth laughs in flowers, why not laugh along with these funny flower quotes?

Flowers are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful’, and sitting in the shade.
~ Rudyard Kipling

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
~ Doug Larson

Daisies: the original fortune tellers.
~ Unknown

Even if you think the Big Bang created the stars, don’t you wonder who sent the flowers?
~ Robert Brault

One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.
~ Marcelene Cox

Bless my bloomers.
~ Unknown

Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.
~ Brian Clough

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
~ Ruth Brown

Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
~ Robert Heinlein

Gardening is just another day at the plant.
~ Unknown

I named all my children after flowers. There’s Lillie and Rose and my son, Artificial.
~ Bert Williams

Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
~ Oscar Levant

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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

You can crush the flowers, but you can’t stop the spring.
~ Pablo Neruda

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

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

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