These spring quotes will warm your heart after a long, cold winter
61 Warm and Cheerful Spring Quotes to Brighten Your Day
Updated on Jan. 28, 2025
Inspirational spring quotes
1. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” —Lilly Pulitzer
2. “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
3. “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” —Frances Mayes
4. “Seasons flow in a cycle. Life too, passes through difficult winters. But after any winter, spring will follow.” ―Toshikazu Kawaguchi
5. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” —Edwin Way Teale
6. “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.” —L.M. Montgomery
7. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather that God has to offer.” —Dodie Smith
8. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” —John Muir
9. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” —Edgar Guest
10. “Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” —Laura Ingalls Wilder
11. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” —Neltje Blanchan
12. “What is Spring?—Growth in everything.” —Gerard Manley Hopkins
13. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party.'” —Robin Williams
14. “If people did not love one another, I really don’t see what use there would be in having any spring.” —Victor Hugo
15. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” —Doug Larson
16. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” —Anne Bradstreet
17. “There’s so much spring in the air—there’s so much lazy sweetness in your heart.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald
18. “The Spring is generally fertile in new acquaintances.” —Fanny Burney
19. “The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing.” —George Orwell
20. “I am thankful that in a troubled world no calamity can prevent the return of spring.” —Helen Keller
Quotes about the coming of spring
21. “When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest.” —Ernest Hemingway
22. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” —Virginia Woolf
23. “Spring is shoving up the front windows and resting your elbows on the sill, the sun burning your nose a little.” —Ruth Wolff
24. “The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.” —Jack London
25. “Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything’s dying.” —George Carlin
26. “Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.” —Henry David Thoreau
27. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
28. “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
29. “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
30. “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
31. “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
32. “That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs.” —L.M. Montgomery
Spring quotes about new beginnings
33. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” —Leo Tolstoy
34. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” —Vladimir Nabokov
35. “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” —Unknown
36. “Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.” —Gustav Mahler
37. “The beautiful spring came; and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” —Harriet Ann Jacobs
38. “Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.” —Marge Piercy
39. “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” —Christopher Morley
40. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” —Christina Rosetti
41. “And in the spring I shed my skin, and it blows away with the changing winds.” —Florence & The Machine
42. “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ―Suzanne Collins
43. “Red is the first color of spring. It’s the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.”―Ally Condie
Spring quotes about flowers
44. “The older I grow the more do I love spring and spring flowers. Is it so with you?” —Emily Dickinson
45. “Flowers are the music of the ground / From Earth’s lips spoken without sound.” —Edwin Curran
46. “Flowers always make people better, happier, and more hopeful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.” —Luther Burbank
47. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” —Reginald Heber
48. “It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers. —Ellen Glasgow
49. “The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.” —Oliver Wendell Holmes
50. “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
51. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” —Algernon Charles Swinburne
52. “One of the attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.” —Henry David Thoreau
53. “Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
54. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson
55. “Earth laughs in flowers.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.” —Theodore Roethke
57. “I never fail to get that childlike feeling of pure delight when I discover the first spring wildflower.” —Carolyn Harstad
58. “A flower touches everyone’s heart.” —Georgia O’Keeffe
59. “Flowers are like visible messages from God.” —Marie Corelli, author“A beautiful flower is not to be possessed, it’s there to be beheld. You’re not going to take a beautiful painting off the museum wall. It’s there for your pleasure.” —Diana Vreeland
60. “A flower is a plant’s way of making love.” —Barbara Kingsolver
61. “Each separate flower has a magic all its own.” —Myrtle Reed
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At Reader’s Digest, we’ve been sharing our favorite quotes for over 100 years. The sayings and quips that appear in the magazine’s “Quotable Quotes” (formerly “Remarkable Remarks”) are curated from interviews and essays originally published in the magazine, reprints from trusted titles and other verified sources. For this piece, Madeline Wahl tapped her experiences as a lifestyle editor for Reader’s Digest to ensure that all information is accurate. We’ve gone the extra step and had Marcy Lovitch, a fact-checker with 20-plus years of experience researching for national publications including Marie Claire, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Glamour, Seventeen, Real Simple, Forbes and InStyle magazines, verify that all quotes are attributed correctly and have credible sourcing. Read more about our team, our contributors and our editorial policies.
