Best Spring Quotes to Welcome the Season of Renewal

Is there anything lovelier or more wonderful than springtime in the country? We think not—which is why we’ve rounded up the best spring quotes right here.

Below, we’re sharing our favorite sayings about the season in order to help you better usher in the season of fresh flowers, green grass, and sunshine. Whether you’re looking for something inspirational (Pablo Neruda’s words come to mind: “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming”) or something silly (consider Robin Williams’ words about how “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party'”), we’ve got you covered.

Of course, our personal favorite quotes on this list have to be the ones that offer a glimmer of hope—the same way that spring does. Take, for instance, Marty Rubin’s wise words: “The deep roots never doubt spring will come.”

From sweet flower quotes to Easter quotes and even a few all-purpose happy quotes thrown in for good measure, there’s something here for just about everyone. After all, as Anita Krizzan puts it, “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”

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Quotes about Spring

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

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

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

“Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” _{– Anonymous}

“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” _{– Bishop Reginald Heber}

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

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

“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}

“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.” _{– Roger Hornsby}

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

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

“The day the Lord created hope was probably the same day he created Spring.” _{– Bernard Williams}

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

“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}

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

“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}

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” _{– Pablo Neruda}

“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}

“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}

“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}

“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}

“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” _{– Luther Burbank}

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

“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.” _{– Laura Ingalls Wilder}

“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}

“No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” _{– English Proverb}

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

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

“It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want—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}

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

“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}

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

“The sun was warm but the wind was chill / You know how it is with an April day.” _{– Robert Frost}

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

“April prepares her green traffic light and the world thinks Go.” _{– Christopher Morley}

“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}

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

“Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” _{– Charles Dickens}

“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}

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

“A kind word is like a spring day.” _{– Russian Proverb}

“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}

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

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

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

“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” _{– Nelte Blancham}

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

“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.” _{– Dodie Smith}

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

“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}

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” _{– Percy Bysshe Shelley}

“Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.” _{– Truman Capote}

“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}

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

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

“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}

“From the end spring new beginnings.” _{– Pliny The Elder}

“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}

“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}

“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}

“Always it’s Spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” _{– E.E. Cummings}

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

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

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

“My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” _{– Terri Guillemets}

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

We hope you’ve enjoyed these quotes about spring and the joys of springtime. Whenever the change in seasons happens where you are, and whatever it looks like, we hope you’ll make the most of the new season!