Flowers. The world wouldn’t be as beautiful without them.
As it turns out, many great authors and poets love flowers as much as we do. Here are some of the most beautiful quotes.
A flower blossoms for its own joy. Oscar Wilde
Flowers are happy things. P.G. Wodehouse
Flowers are love’s truest language. Park Benjamin
I draw flowers everyday on my iPhone and send them to my friends, so they get fresh flowers every morning. David Hockney
Beware of men bearing flowers. Muriel Spark
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. Forbes Watson
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. Gerard de Nerval
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve. Henry David Thoreau
Flowers really do intoxicate me. Vita Sackville-West
I don’t know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. Roland A. Browne
If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. Buddha
There are always flowers for those who want to see them. Henri Matisse
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Edward Abbey
Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. Sigmund Freud
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn’t room for any other thought. Sophie Scholl
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat. Beverly Nichols
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. Chinese Proverb
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. Kozuko Okakura
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. Henry Ward Beecher )
Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. Japanese Proverb
Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light. Theodore Roethke
A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization. Chinese Proverb
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. Luther Burbank
The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams. Lewis Thompson
Where flowers bloom so does hope. Lady Bird Johnson
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy. Lope de Vega
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. Jean Giraudoux
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. Indian Proverb
A rose is a rose is a rose. Gertrude Stein
Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. Lydia M. Child
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us. Iris Murdoch
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity. John Ruskin
It’s so curious: one can resist tears and ‘behave’ very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer… and everything collapses. Colette
To pick a flower is so much more satisfying than just observing it, or photographing it … So in later years, I have grown in my garden as many flowers as possible for children to pick. Anne Scott-James
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… Susan Polis Shutz
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. Georgia O’ Keeffe
The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size. Gertrude S. Wister
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. Chinese Proverb
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Emma Goldman
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. Vita Sackville-West
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. George Bernard Shaw
