49 Flower Quotes Full of Color and Meaning

Sharing is caring!

Flowers, the vibrant and fragrant jewels of nature, play a significant role in our lives beyond their aesthetic appeal.

They are not just ornaments of the natural world, but also serve vital roles in ecosystems, acting as the reproductive structures for plants and a food source for various organisms.

Flowers also hold profound cultural and emotional significance for humans, being used to express love, sympathy, and celebration.

The beauty and diversity of flowers enhance our lives, bringing joy, color, and often, a sense of peace.

Let these beautiful flower quotes remind you just how much meaning, wisdom, and wonder can be found in a single bloom.

1. “The earth laughs in flowers.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

2. “What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” – Joseph Addison

3. “Why is marriage the pinnacle for everyone? People get married for the wrong reasons. We need to start looking at different packages, whether it’s living together, or being with six partners, or dedicating your life to taking care of flowers.” – Sandra Bullock

4. “It’s so nice to get flowers while you can still smell the fragrance.” – Lena Horne

5. “Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people never thought you would.” – Unknown

6. “The shirt thing just started one day when I bought one with a really interesting pattern, and people laughed at it, so I thought, ‘I’ll keep buying daft shirts with flowers on.'” – James May

7. “When you’re doing exactly what you want to do, it’s not tiring. You’ve been planting these seeds, and finally, you have a full garden in bloom; you’re like, ‘Oh, I just want to smell the flowers and play among the flowers all day.’ That’s what I’m doing. I’m playing among the flowers.” – Colman Domingo

8. “When I was little, I’d pick flowers wherever I traveled with my mom, then dry them, cover them with resin, and turn them into paperweights.” – Ivanka Trump

9. “Isn’t that what love means, to fill ordinary, commonplace, conventional things with magic and significance, not to need the moon and white scent-heavy flowers at night?” – Elizabeth Bibesco

10. “Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” – Sigmund Freud

11. “I must confess that flowers are my weakness and I love receiving them, especially Indian fragrant flowers – Mogra, Rajnigandha, Sontakka, etc.” – Shabana Azmi

12. “I like a little chivalry; I like to receive flowers. I like taking care of a son and a husband, and in my judgment, those who recoil from these things don’t know what they’re missing.” – Maryanne Trump Barry

13. “From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.” – Edvard Munch

14. “Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don’t understand the concept.” – Paul Westerberg

15. “Let a hundred flowers bloom.” – Mao Zedong

16. “Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.” – Robert Green Ingersoll

17. “On your journey, don’t forget to smell the flowers. Take time out to notice that you’re alive. You can only live in one day.” – Ray Fearon

18. “Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.” – Rebecca Wells

19. “There’s no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.” – Gerald Massey

20. “Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

21. “You always have to remember – no matter what you’re told – that God loves all the flowers, even the wild ones that grow on the side of the highway.” – Cyndi Lauper

22. “Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.” – Alice Oswald

23. “Johnny Depp is like a brother to me. We have matching tattoos on our backs – Charles Baudelaire, the flowers of evil, this giant skeleton thing. It’s kind of a secret. People say to us, ‘Why did you get that?’ And we say, ‘No reason.'” – Marilyn Manson

24. “To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I’ve still got a long way to go.” – Sharon Stone

25. “Flowers make me irrationally happy.” – Alexa Von Tobel

26. “Since she got a cause and stopped being funny. I think she’s real funny, but lately it’s all been hearts and flowers and tears and saving teenagers and creating a role model. And that ain’t funny. No giggles there.” – Andy Richter

27. “What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!” – Henry Austin Dobson

28. “I usually spend Valentines Day with my friends. But if I did have a girlfriend, I’d bring her flowers and candy.” – Zac Efron

29. “The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.” – Richard Blackmore

30. “The Victorian language of flowers began with the publication of ‘Le Language des Fleurs,’ written by Charlotte de Latour and printed in Paris in 1819. To create the book – which was a list of flowers and their meanings – de Latour gathered references to flower symbolism throughout poetry, ancient mythology, and even medicine.” – Vanessa Diffenbaugh

31. “Her face betokened all things dear and good, The light of somewhat yet to come was there Asleep, and waiting for the opening day, When childish thoughts, like flowers would drift away.” – Jean Ingelow

32. “It’s all about creation and surprise. It just needs to be appreciated and watered like flowers. You have to water flowers. These peaks will come again.” – Sonny Rollins

33. “I don’t like painting flowers in my music. I like painting guts and pain.” – Jonathan Davis

34. “I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” – Claude Monet

35. “I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.” – Helen Keller

36. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” – Henri Matisse

37. “Put no more than three messages on a lemonade stand. You have to describe what your product is, why it’s the best, and how much it is. Don’t be drawing turtles and flowers and footballs all over it, distracting people. Keep it clean.” – Marcus Lemonis

38. “Your minds may now be likened to a garden, which will, if neglected, yield only weeds and thistles; but, if cultivated, will produce the most beautiful flowers, and the most delicious fruits.” – Dorothea Dix

39. “In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.” – Jonas Mekas

40. “One marked feature of the people, both high and low, is a love for flowers.” – Robert Fortune

41. “Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.” – Henry Ward Beecher

42. “Without the name, any flower is still more or less a stranger to you. The name betrays its family, its relationship to other flowers, and gives the mind something tangible to grasp. It is very difficult for persons who have had no special training to learn the names of the flowers from the botany.” – John Burroughs

43. “From a child, I had an inordinate desire for knowledge and especially music, painting, flowers, and the sciences, Algebra being one of my favorite studies.” – George Washington Carver

44. “Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones – maybe only the stones – understood.” – Annie Dillard

45. “Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.” – May Sarton

46. “Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air.” – Georges Bernanos

47. “Because I am really interested in gardening, I do really interesting plants, not even always flowers. And because I have grown them, I really know them like friends. I paint everything from exotic orchids to rosehips growing wild in a hedge. They just have to speak to me.” – Emma Tennant

48. “The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds – the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall.” – Chuck Jones

49. “True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero