100 Spring Quotes to Brighten the Occasion (2024)

Spring quotes are sayings and greetings that you can make use of all season long. Whether you need something to write in a card or to use as your email signature, spring quotes are useful to have on hand for whatever comes your way.

Holidays and Special Occasions in Spring

• Easter (changes dates every year)
• Passover (changes dates every year)
• Holi (changes dates every year)
• May Day (May 1^st)
• Earth Day (April 22^nd)
• Cinco De Mayo (May 5^th)
• Mother’s Day (Second Sunday in May)
• Memorial Day (May 29^th)
• Father’s Day (Third Sunday in June)
• Flag Day (June 14^th)

100 Best Spring Quotes to Use All Season Long

Quotes About Spring

1. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy

2. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

3. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.” — Anne Bradstreet

4. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” — Vladimir Nabokov

5. “Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.” — Henry Rollins

6. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” — Virgil A. Kraft

7. “I glanced out the window at the signs of spring. The sky was almost blue, the trees were almost budding, the sun was almost bright.” — Millard Kaufman

8. “Spring drew on…and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.” — Charlotte Brontë

9. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” — Neltje Blanchan

10. “Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard

11. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.” — Charles Dickens

12. “A life without love is like a year without spring.”—Octavian Paler

13. “A little flower that blooms in May / A lovely sunset at the end of the day / Someone helping a stranger along the way / That’s heaven to me.”—Sam Cooke

14. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.”—Ernest Hemingway

15. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”‘—Bishop Reginald Herber

16. “Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love.” – Sitting Bull

17. “The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created spring.” – Bernard Williams

18. “‘Is the spring coming?,’ he said. ‘What is it like?’…’It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…'” – Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

19. “To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter… to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring – these are some of the rewards of the simple life.”—John Burroughs

20. “Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring.”—William Alexander

Fun Spring Quotes

21. “Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh contacts, more vital searching.” — Emily Carr

22. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” — Virginia Woolf

23. “That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.” — L.M. Montgomery

24. “The sun was warm but the wind was chill You know how it is with an April day.” – Robert Frost

25. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” — Edgar Guest

26. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.”—Edwin Way Teale

27. “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” – Christopher Morley

28. “Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it’s a rebirth of the spirit.” – Toni Sorenson

29. “In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head.” – Emma Racine Defleur

30. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.”—Thomas Tusser

Funny Spring Quotes

31. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” — Margaret Atwood

32. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson

33. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” — Robin Williams

34. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” — Victor Hugo

35. “In the Spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” — Mark Twain

36. “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!” — Jen Selinsky

37. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” — Dodie Smith

38. “People ask me what I do in the winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”—Rogers Hornsby

39. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder

40. “Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!”—Wallace Stevens

41. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” — Susan J. Bissonette

42. “It’s the fans that need spring training. You gotta get ’em interested. Wake ’em up and let ’em know that their season is coming, the good times are gonna roll.”—Harry Caray

43. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”—Gustav Mahler

44. “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” – W. Earl Hall

Short Spring Quotes

45. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson

46. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” — John Muir

47. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer

48. “A kind word is like a spring day.” — Russian Proverb

49. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.”—Christina Rosetti

50. “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”—Albert Camus

51. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”—Henry Rollins

52. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”—Pietro Aretino

53. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” – William Shakespeare

54. “With the coming of spring, I am calm again.” – Gustav Mahler

55. “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.”—Japanese Proverb

56. “Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.” — Henry Rollins

57. “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.” — Marty Rubin

58. “My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets

59. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

60. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep their light.” — Theodore Roethke

61. “The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

62. “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.”—Frances Mayes

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

64. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”—Hal Borland

Inspirational Quotes About Spring

65. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” — Henry David Thoreau

66. “As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession.”—Bo Bennett

67. “It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.”—B.C. Forbes

68. “It is so small a thing to have enjoyed the sun, to have lived light in the spring, to have loved, to have thought, to have done.”—Matthew Arnold

69. “I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better.”—Steve Southerland

70. “Come with me into the woods. Where spring is advancing, as it does, no matter what, not being singular or particular, but one of the forever gifts, and certainly visible.” — Mary Oliver

71. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.”—Rumi

72. “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” — Charles Dickens

73. “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs

74. “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” – Unknown

75. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” — Anita Krizzan

76. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson

77. “The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.”—Charles Dudley Warner

78. “Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.”—Pedro Calderon de la Barca

79. “To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” – George Santayana

80. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”—Audrey Hepburn

81. “A world of grief and pain flowers bloom—even then.”—Kobayashi Issa

82. “Bloom where you are planted.”—1 Corinthians 7:20-24

83. “Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.”—Robert H. Schuller

Spring Flower Quotes

84. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne

85. “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” — Gertrude S. Wister

86. “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

87. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa

88. “Spring flowers are nature’s most fragrant charms.”—Angie Weiland Crosby

89. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” — Bishop Reginald Heber

90. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” — E. E. Cummings

91. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

92. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” — S. Brown

93. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Luther Burbank

94. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” — Sheryl Crow

95. “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 C. Hagen

96. “When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.”—John O’Donohue

97. “Happiness held is the seed. happiness shared is the flower.”—John Harrigan

98. “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

99. “Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” – Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

100. “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” – Gertrude Wister

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