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110 Short Flower Quotes to Inspire Your Love of Beauty

Updated on: April 13, 2022 by Louise Myers Leave a Comment

purple petals with dew drops says flower quotes.

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.

Let’s stroll in right now!

yellow daylily with script quote Earth laughs in flowers.

Very 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

drawing of rose and rainbow says because of you i bloom.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

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

pink peonies photo says april showers bring may flowers.

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

You might also love these rose quotes.

Or keep scrolling for more about flowers of all kinds!

daisies drawn on blue with quote be careful with words.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

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

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!

seed packets says plant what you want to see grow.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

Flower garden quotes

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!

sunflowers and mums in pumpkin says seeds grow to flowers or weeds.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

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.

Or scroll on…

dandelion and daffodil art says difference between flower and weed is the name.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

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

Check out the best inspirational quotes… or keep going here!

yellow flower field with pink cherry blossoms and quote in script.

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

If love is as sweet as flower then my Mother is that sweet flower of love.
~ Charley Benetto

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

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

Spread more happiness with 30 days of gratitude quotes.

But of course, there are still more flower quotes and sayings below 😉

clouds and rain falling on flowers with quote.
This illustration is ©PositivelyPresent and is used with permission.

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

closeup of peony says april flower of the month.
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

bunch of daisies against sky says you can cut all the flowers but you can't stop spring.
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

If you loved these short flower quotes, pin an image to Pinterest and return later!

To find quotes for every season and reason, check out the best quote sites.

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