100 Spring Quotes to Celebrate the Season of Buds, Blooms, and New Beginnings

Jared Jeric dela Cruz

Spring is in the air, and the world is waking from its icy slumber to welcome the new season. The frost is thawing, the snows are melting, and Winter is packing her bags and leaving. The grass begins to poke out of the hard ground; trees shake off their snowy blankets and put forth tender, green buds; and flowers of countless shapes, scents, and shades blossom into beautiful being. The bear leaves its den, the beaver starts work on a new dam, the bunny rabbit frolics in the sunlight, and the birds take up the sweet, sparkling song of springtime.

Spring is here indeed, and all the days ahead are full of the promise of sunshine, balmy weather, and new life. So rouse yourself from winter sleep and welcome not only the March winds, April showers, and May flowers, but also change, hope, and happiness into your life.

And to celebrate the season of flowers, fair weather, and fresh starts, here is a compilation of the most wonderful and wholesome spring quotes that are as bright and bubbly as the season itself. Whether you’re looking for cheerful spring quotes to warm your heart, hopeful spring quotes to melt the winter blues, romantic spring quotes to fall in love with, inspiring spring quotes to help you get started on your new plans and projects, or just plain silly and amusing spring quotes to make you laugh, there’s something here for everyone.

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

“A kind word is like a spring day.” – Russian proverb

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

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

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

“Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it’s not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don’t deserve my spring.” – Erin Hanson

“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

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

“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.” – Mary Balogh

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” – Neltje Blanchan

“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

“Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” – Theodore Roethke

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

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

“Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters

“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran

“Flowers don’t tell; they show.” – Stephanie Skeem

“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

“For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.” – Pam Brown

“Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.” – Marge Piercy

“I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.” – Anne Lamott

“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

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

“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

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.” – David Hockney

“I had been educated in the rhythms of the mountain, rhythms in which change was never fundamental, only cyclical. The same sun appeared each morning, swept over the valley, and dropped behind the peak. The snows that fell in winter always melted in the spring.” – Tara Westover

“I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout

“I must have flowers, always and always.” – Claude Monet

“I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature’s rebirth?” – Edward Giobbi

“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.” – Pablo Neruda

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

“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet

“If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” – Audra Foveo

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

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

“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” – Mark Twain

“It’s a spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want to – oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!” – Mark Twain

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

“It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” – Lou Rawls

“It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

“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

“It was such a spring day as breathes into a man an ineffable yearning, a painful sweetness, a longing that makes him stand motionless, looking at the leaves or grass, and fling out his arms to embrace he knows not what.” – John Galsworthy

“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” – Carl Friedrich Gauss

“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

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

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

“No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” – English proverb

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

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

“Nothing is so beautiful as Spring.” – Gerard Manley Hopkins

“Now every field is clothed with grass, and every tree with leaves; now the woods put forth their blossoms, and the year assumes its gay attire.” – Virgil

“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” – Percy Bysshe Shelley

“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

“One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.” – Aldo Leopold

“Or maybe spring is the season of love and fall the season of mad lust. Spring for flirting but fall for the untamed delicious wild thing.” – Elizabeth Cohen

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

“Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!” – Wallace Stevens

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

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head,
And whispered to her neighbor:
‘Winter is dead’.” – A. A. Milne

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

“Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.” – Ambrose Bierce

“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

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

“Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” – Munia Khan

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

“Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti

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

“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” – Robin Williams

“Spring makes its own statement, so loud and clear that the gardener seems to be only one of the instruments, not the composer.” – Geoffrey B. Charlesworth

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” – Reginald Heber

“Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.” – Kenneth Grahame

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.” – George Herbert

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

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

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

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

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

“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.” – Henry Van Dyke

“The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

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

“The madness of spring is so enticing. I love it when things are opening up and emerging from the ground. I also love the middle of summer when fruit is bursting forth, but I even love the garden in the winter when everything is resting.” – Ross Gay

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

“The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.” – Gary Zukav

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

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

“When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter, will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light, and the sweet air of spring.” – Madeleine M. Kunin

“When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people, and if you keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.” – Ernest Hemingway