73 Spring Quotes to Ring in the Season on the Right Note (2024)

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1. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda 2. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” — Anita Krizzan 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 4. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” — Virginia Woolf 5. “What a strange thing! To be alive, beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa 6. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” — E.E. Cummings 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 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 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 10. “That is one good thing about this world...there are always sure to be more springs.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery 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 12. “Science has never drummed up quite as effective a franquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.” — W. Earl Hall 13. “Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.” — “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens 14. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson 15. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” — Christina Rossetti 16. “If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley 17. “Spring vacation. Good vibration.” — “Spring Vacation” by The Beach Boys 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 19. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” — Munia Khan 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 21. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” — S. Brown 22. “Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.” — Edgar Guest 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 24. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland 25. “My favorite weather is bird-chirping weather.” — Terri Guillemets 26. “The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone Through the bitter winter.” — Jen Selinsky 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 28. “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet 29. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer 30. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” — Doug Larson 31. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” — Neltje Blanchan 32. “The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well outof proportion totheir size.” — Gertrude S. Wister 33. “Springtime is the land awakening. The march winds are the morning yawn.” — Lewis Grizzard 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 35. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party.’” — Robin Williams 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 44. “April prepares her green traffic light, and the world thinks: Go.” — Christopher Morley 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 Associate Editor, Ultimate Fangirl, Aspiring Beauty Guru Associate Editor, News and Entertainment FAQs

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Who doesn’t love spring? The season brings blossoming flowers, warmer weather and the chance to put away our parkas until December. 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 73 spring quotes to get in the spirit of the season.

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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 outof proportion totheir 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

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

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