There’s a reason we draw such comfort or joy from the bright, breathtaking buds. Not only are they a most colorful decoration, but flowers are a symbol of strength and purity. A floret growing from bud to bloom is a wonderful metaphor for personal growth, while the way a flower wilts and dies is a representation of the fragility of life. With those inspiring and meaningful thoughts of flowers in mind, we have put together a list of 101 of the best quotes about flowers. Some of the quotes listed below are simply about the beauty of blooms, while others have a deeper message about growth or feelings of love. Hopefully, you will dig into this list and find a quote that will brighten your day like a beautiful bouquet. So without further adieu… Roses are red, violets are blue, we’ve put together 101 flower quotes just for you!
101 Flower Quotes
- “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
- “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — Steve Maraboli
- “When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sanober Khan
- “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
- “Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― Ken Petti
- “I must have flowers, always, and always.” — Claude Monet
- “After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” — Christian Dior
- “Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — Suyasha Subedi
- “Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all.” — Avijeet Das
- “A flower can be defined by its unique beauty and an incredible allure.” — Happiness Shuma
- “Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” — Stephen Richards
- “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
- “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” — Roland R. Kemler
- “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
- “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
- “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” — Stephanie Skeem
- “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” — Dr. SunWolf
- “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
- “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” ― Herbert Rappaport
- “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay RELATED: A Guide to the Meanings of Flowers
- “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” — Corita Kent
- “The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” — Dorothea Dix
- “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
- “If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” — Isaac Hayes
- “We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.” — Gwendolyn Brooks
Quotes On Flowers and Growth
- “Every flower must grow through dirt.” — Laurie Jean Sennott 27. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ―E.V
- “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
- “All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” — Indian Proverb
- “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde
- “One by one she slew her fears and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” ― John Mark Green
- “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― Alexander Den Heijer
- “One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” ― Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries
- “I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” ― Antoinette Foy
- “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them.” ― Munia Khan
- “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” — Shannon Mullen
- “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.” — Unknown
- “It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
- “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
- “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” — Sheryl Crow RELATED: Flower-Inspired Names for Girls
Quotes On Flowers and Life
- “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen
- “Every flower withers. What matters is how proudly it stood before the sun.” ― Marty Rubin
- “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” — Edwin Curran
- “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha
- “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea
- “Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.” ― Michele Farabee
- “She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.” — Unknown
- “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul." — Luther Burbank
- “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” — Miranda Kerr
- “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo
- “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ―Gérard de Nerval
- “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” — Honore de Balzac
- “The flower that fades is not looked upon.” — Edward Counsel, Maxims
- “Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” — Aaron Neville
- “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.” — Unknown
- “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” — Luther Burbank
- “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” ― Therese of Lisieux
- “Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.” — Unknown
- “Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.” — Chinese Proverb RELATED: The Best Flower Delivery Companies
Quotes On Flowers and Love
- “My love for you blossoms every day.” — Unknown
- “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon
- “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — Freidrich Max Muller
- “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi
- “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin
- “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” — Erin Hanson
- “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” — Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns
- “Don’t just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love.” — Anthony T. Hincks
- “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” — Robert Leighton
- “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” — Carole Radziwill
- “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” — Gemma Malley, The Declaration
- “You can’t choose to adore the flower and ignore the thorns. Love means loving every part of them, especially the unlovable parts.” ― Sarvesh Jain
- “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 Puns For Instagram Captions
- Always rooting for you.
- Blossom buddies
- What’s up buttercup?
- You rose to the occasion.
- Let your dreams blossom.
- Mums the word.
- Once and flor-al!
- I love you bunches.
- A peony saved is a peony earned.
- What in carnation?
- I think you’re dandy, and I’m not lion!
- I be-leaf in you.
- Let’s put our tulips together.
- Rose over bros.
- You made my daisy.
- Plant one on me!
- Oopsie daisy!
- Daisy me rollin’.
- Everything is A-bouquet.
- Girls just want to have sunflowers.
- I think of you everydaisy.
- You’re my best bud.
- Gardens of the Galaxy.
- You grow girl.
- Don’t get so pansy with me.
- You’re simply Iris-istible. Next, check out these Instagram Captions for Spring.