Some might argue that flowers are the most beautiful objects in the world, so it makes sense there are plenty of inspiring flower quotes.

There is no shortage of sayings and quotes about flowers to consider. Whether you are looking for the perfect Instagram caption for your own blooms or celebrating growth in your life (however that may look!), let this collection of flower quotes be your guide.

Short Flower Quotes

• “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” ― Victor Hugo
• “Flowers are the music of the ground from earth’s lips spoken without sound.” ― Edwin Curran
• “Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.” ― Heinrich Heine
• “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ― Gerard de Nerval
• “Against a dark sky all flowers look like fireworks.” ― G.K. Chesterton
• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.” ― Sigmund Freud
• “I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― Claude Monet
• “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” — Stephanie Skeem
• “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — Suyasha Subedi
• “Butterflies are self propelled flowers.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
• “Every flower must grow through dirt.” ― Laurie Jean Sennott
• “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox
• In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― Kakuzō Okakura

Inspirational Flower Quotes

• “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo
• “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 a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities in the world.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― Alexander Den Heijer
• “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the mind.” ― Luther Burbank
• “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” ― Paul A.M. Dirac
• “Without darkness, nothing comes to birth, As without light, nothing flowers.” ― May Sarton
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse
• “The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” — Dorothea Dix
• “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
• “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
• “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.” ― Mother Teresa of Calcutta
• “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
• “Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― Ken Petti
• “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
• “After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” — Christian Dior
• “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
• “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” ― Shannon Mullen
• “Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun.” ― Ellen Everett