101 Flower Quotes, Puns and Instagram Captions That Will Totally Grow On You

With their vibrant colors and sweet fragrances, flowers are among Mother Nature’s most beautiful creations. Out in the wild, flowers are an integral part of helping the environment around us. Inside our homes, we often use blooms to punctuate life’s memorable milestones—like the birth of a baby or a pick-me-up when something sad or upsetting occurs, as a get-well wish during an illness or a celebratory occasion such as a birthday or wedding, and especially as a token of condolence upon a loved one’s death.

There’s a reason we draw such comfort or joy from the bright, breathtaking buds. Not only are they a most colorful decoration, but flowers are a symbol of strength and purity. A floret growing from bud to bloom is a wonderful metaphor for personal growth, while the way a flower wilts and dies is a representation of the fragility of life.

With those inspiring and meaningful thoughts of flowers in mind, we have put together a list of 101 of the best flower quotes. Some of these short quotes listed below are simply about the beauty of blooms, while others have a deeper message about growth or feelings of love. Hopefully, you will dig into this list and find a quote that will brighten your day like a beautiful bouquet. So without further adieu…

Roses are red, violets are blue, we’ve put together 101 quotes about flowers just for you!

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101 Flower Quotes

1. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson

2. “Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — Steve Maraboli

3. “When admiring other people's gardens, don't forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― Sanober Khan

4. “You can cut all the flowers, but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda

5. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― Ken Petti

6. “I must have flowers, always, and always.” — Claude Monet

7. “After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given the world.” — Christian Dior

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8. “Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — Suyasha Subedi

9. “Flowers too wither and fall, but they inspire one and all.” — Avijeet Das

10. “A flower can be defined by its unique beauty and an incredible allure.” — Happiness Shuma

11. “Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” — Stephen Richards

12. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

13. “What a lonely place it would be to have a world without a wildflower!” — Roland R. Kemler

14. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse

15. “A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions—so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” — Terri Guillemets

16. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” — Stephanie Skeem

17. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” — Dr. SunWolf

18. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” — John Harrigan

19. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” ― Herbert Rappaport

20. “I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.” — Edna St. Vincent Millay

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21. “Flowers grow out of dark moments.” — Corita Kent

22. “The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love—the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.” — Dorothea Dix

23. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn

24. “If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.” — Isaac Hayes

25. “We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different for ourselves.” — Gwendolyn Brooks

Quotes About Flowers and Growth

26. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” — Laurie Jean Sennott

27. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” ―E.V

28. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

29. “All the flowers of the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.” — Indian Proverb

30. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

31. “One by one she slew her fears and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” ― John Mark Green

32. “When a flower doesn’t bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― Alexander Den Heijer

33. “One person’s weed is another person’s wildflower.” ― Susan Wittig Albert, An Unthymely Death and Other Garden Mysteries

34. “I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.” ― Antoinette Foy

35. “Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them.” ― Munia Khan

36. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” — Shannon Mullen

37. “Flowers grow back, even after they are stepped on. So will I.” — Unknown

38. “It’s the time that you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

39. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.” — Jim Carrey

40. “No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.” — Sheryl Crow

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Quotes on Flowers and Life

41. “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

42. “Every flower withers. What matters is how proudly it stood before the sun.” ― Marty Rubin

43. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” — Edwin Curran

44. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha

45. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― Okakura Kakuzo, The Book of Tea

46. “Friends, like flowers, make life more beautiful.” ― Michele Farabee

47. “She is like a wildflower; beautiful, fierce, and free.” — Unknown

48. “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul." — Luther Burbank

49. “A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that’s like women too.” — Miranda Kerr

50. “Life is the flower for which love is the honey.” — Victor Hugo

51. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ―Gérard de Nerval

52. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” — Honore de Balzac

53. “The flower that fades is not looked upon.” — Edward Counsel, Maxims

54. “Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.” — Aaron Neville

55. “I’d rather wear flowers in my hair, than diamonds around my neck.” — Unknown

56. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” — Luther Burbank

57. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” ― Therese of Lisieux

58. “Flowers are like friends; they bring color to your world.” — Unknown

59. “Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.” — Chinese Proverb

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Quotes on Flowers and Love

60. “My love for you blossoms every day.” — Unknown

61. “A weed is but an unloved flower.” ― Ella Wheeler Wilcox

62. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon

63. “Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

64. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — Freidrich Max Muller

65. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi

66. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — Zen Shin

67. “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, from her smile the sun still shined.” — Erin Hanson

68. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” — Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns

69. “Don't just be my garden paradise. Be my flower of love.” — Anthony T. Hincks

70. “Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

71. “The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.” — Robert Leighton

72. “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures and the flower blooms.” — Carole Radziwill

73. “He said that we belonged together because he was born with a flower, and I was born with a butterfly and that flowers and butterflies need each other for survival.” — Gemma Malley, The Declaration

74. “You can’t choose to adore the flower and ignore the thorns. Love means loving every part of them, especially the unlovable parts.” ― Sarvesh Jain

75. “Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.” — Helen Keller

Flower Puns for Instagram Captions

76. Always rooting for you.

77. Blossom buddies

78. What’s up buttercup?

79. You rose to the occasion.

80. Let your dreams blossom.

81. Mums the word.

82. Once and flor-al!

83. I love you bunches.

84. A peony saved is a peony earned.

85. What in carnation?

86. I think you’re dandy, and I’m not lion!

87. I be-leaf in you.

88. Let’s put our tulips together.

89. Rose over bros.

90. You made my daisy.

91. Plant one on me!

92. Oopsie daisy!

93. Daisy me rollin’.

94. Everything is A-bouquet.

95. Girls just want to have sunflowers.

96. I think of you everydaisy.

97. You’re my best bud.

98. Gardens of the Galaxy.

99. You grow girl.

100. Don’t get so pansy with me.

101. You’re simply Iris-istible.

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