Reading These Flower Quotes Will Have You Feeling Fresh as a Daisy (2024)

There's something about flowers that just draws you in. Whether it's their sweet fragrance, natural beauty or hidden meaning, a single glance at a colorful bouquet or a wildflower on the side of the road is enough to cure any bad day. In life and art, flowers symbolize new beginnings. As winter comes to a close, the blooming of hyacinths, bluebells, and lilacs signals the return of spring. Given the fast-approaching season of growth, we listed some of the best quotes about flowers, and they're blooming with joy!

There are so many lovely flower quotes—equally as inspiring as our uplifting quotes and just as radiant as our spring quotes. Many of the sayings on this list pay homage to the show-stopping colors and scents of flowers, like these words from novelist and philosopher Iris Murdoch: "People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us." But others use flowers as a metaphor for a greater message about love and life. Take Sheryl Crow's words, for instance: "No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

No matter what kind of quote you're looking for, browsing through this list will definitely make you want to stop and smell the roses!

"Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it."

"You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming."

"The butterfly is a flying flower, the flower a tethered butterfly."

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

"Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world."

"She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined."

“Every flower blooms in its own time.”

“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.”

“If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.”

“Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.”

“Flowers don’t tell, they show.”

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”

“Politeness is the flower of humanity.”

“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.”

“The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love – the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.”

“Where flowers bloom so does hope.”

“Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.”

“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.”

“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”

“Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.”