Who doesn’t love spring? The season brings blossoming flowers, warmer weather and the chance to put away our parkas until December. It's also a chance to try something new and refresh things that may feel stagnant in your life, like your space, wardrobe or even hair. Nothing screams spring like a new haircut to whip around in the early season breeze. Whether you’re all about that spring state of mind—rebirth, new beginnings, growth, etc.—or you’re simply excited to say goodbye to winter, there’s a spring quote for you (or your friends) to celebrate the best season (sorry not sorry, summer). From funny thoughts by Robin Williams to heartfelt musings from Mark Twain, here are 80 spring quotes to get in the spirit of the season.
80 Spring Quotes to Ring in the Season on the Right Note
Hello, spring!
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Published Apr 4, 2024
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1. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
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2. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” — Anita Krizzan
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3. “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
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4. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” — Virginia Woolf
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5. “What a strange thing! To be alive, beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa
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6. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” — E.E. Cummings
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7. “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
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8. “April, come she will. When streams are ripe and swelled with rain. May, she will stay. Resting in my arms again.” — “April Come She Will” by Paul Simon
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9. “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 is just fairly makes your heartache, you want it so!” — Mark Twain
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10. “That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery
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11. “Once there was a thing called spring. When the world was writing verses like yours and mine, all the lads and girls would sing. When we sat at little tables and drank May wine.” — “Spring Is Here” by Frank Sinatra
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12. “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a franquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” — W. Earl Hall
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13. “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” — “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens
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14. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson
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15. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” — Christina Rossetti
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16. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
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17. “Spring vacation. Good vibration.” — “Spring Vacation” by The Beach Boys
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18. “Spring in Manhattan, never stays long. Still if you fall in love, she'll bless you with a song.” — “Spring in Manhattan” by Tony Bennet
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19. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” — Munia Khan
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20. “Can you feel it now that spring has come. That it’s the to live in the scattered sun.” — “Waiting for the Sun” by The Doors
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21. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” — S. Brown
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22. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” — Edgar Guest
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23. “It’s spring again. Everybody know it’s spring again. To the girls and boys and people above. This is the time to fall in love.” — “Spring Again” by Biz Markie
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24. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
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25. “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets
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26. “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone Through the bitter winter.” — Jen Selinsky
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27. “It’s the first day of spring and my life is starting over again. The trees grow, the river flows and its water will wash away my sins.” — “The First Days of Spring” by Noah And The Whale
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28. “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet
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29. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer
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30. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson
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31. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” — Neltje Blanchan
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32. “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” — Gertrude S. Wister
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33. “Springtime is the land awakening. The march winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard
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34. “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
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35. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party.’” — Robin Williams
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36. “You can crush the flowers but you can’t stop the spring. No matter what you say.” — “Can’t Stop the Spring” by The Flaming Lips
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37. “It's a beautiful day. Sky falls, you feel like, it's a beautiful day. Don't let it get away.” — “Beautiful Day” by U2
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38. “Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up, and turn towards the light, and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey
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39. “It's spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” — “Spring Again” by Lou Rawls
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40. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
41. “The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all.” — The Emperor, Mulan
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42. “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
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43. “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
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44. “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” — Christopher Morley
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45. “Flowers don’t tell; they show.” — Stephanie Skeem
46. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — Luther Burbank
47. “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” — William Shakespeare
48. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” — Algernon Charles Swinburne
49. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
50. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” — Gustav Mahler
51. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” — Anne Bradstreet
52. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth's lips spoken without sound.” — Edwin Curran
53. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson
54. “Spring’s greatest joy, beyond a doubt, is when it brings the children out.” — Edgar Guest
55. “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson
56. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett
57. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” — Clare Ansberry
58. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” — Leo Tolstoy
59. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” — Susan J. Bissonette
60. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” — Okakura Kakuzo
61. “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
62. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” — Margaret Atwood
63. “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
64. “If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.” — Victor Hugo
65. “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, Jane Eyre
66. “The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” — Harriet Ann Jacobs
67. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
68. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” — Sheryl Crow
69. “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
70. “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 could 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, A Moveable Feast
71. “We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
72. “Once there was a thing called spring, when the world was writing verses like yours and mine.” — Ella Fitzgerald
73. “April, come she will when streams are ripe and swelled with rain. May she will stay, resting in my arms again.” — Simon & Garfunkel
74. “When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.” — John O'Donohue
75. “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” — Frances Mayes
76. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” — Rainer Maria Rilke
77. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan
78. “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
79. “April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks, 'Go.'” — Christopher Morley
80. “Spring: the music of open windows.” — Terri Guillemets
