# Flower Quotes and Captions: The Complete Collection Published: 2022-07-08 Category: Education Category URL: https://blog.flowersacross.com.au/category/education/ Meta Title: Flower Quotes and Captions: The Complete Collection Meta Description: Looking for the perfect note to accompany your floral gift? Take a look at these beautiful quotes and captions about flowers for inspiration. URL: https://blog.flowersacross.com.au/flower-quotes-and-captions-the-complete-collection/ ![undefined](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/wild-pink-flowers-1782540386024-compressed.jpg) Flowers are one of nature’s most magnificent gifts, it’s no surprise there are so many flower quotes out there. A single bloom has the power to express love, bring joy, delight the senses, and elicit awestruck oohs and aahs from even the toughest of crowds. Therefore, comprising an infinite array of colours, shapes, sizes, textures, and so much more, flowers play a key role in all of the major events of our lives. In fact, so captivating are they that there was even a time in the 17th Century in Holland when tulips were more even [valuable than gold](https://aces.illinois.edu/news/tulips-once-worth-more-gold)! But the value of flowers goes way beyond their monetary worth. Research shows that flowers have the ability to elicit [positive emotions](https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/147470490500300109) in people that can last for as long as three days! This is much longer than the effect that most of our favourite natural mood boosters, such as coffee and chocolate, can achieve. As a result, so much has been written and spoken about the precious flower. So let’s explore the many flower quotes and captions from the prose, poetry, and songs that have been composed over thousands of years about the humble flower. ## Flower Quotes 1. “In joy and in sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― _Unknown_ 2. “If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.” ― _Therese of Lisieux_ 3. “The fragrance of the jasmine is like a dream.” ― _Lailah Gifty Akita_ 4. “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_ 5. “Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.” ― _Mark Twain_ 6. “A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” ― _Leo Buscaglia_ 7. “The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer.” ― _Chinese proverb_ 8. “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 9. “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars.” ― _Victor Hugo_ ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/lotus-flowerjpg-1782540385282-compressed.jpg) 10. “Then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils.” – _William Wordsworth_ 11. “When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid’s perfume”. ― _Sara Jeannette Duncan_ 12. “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind.” ― _Erin Hanson_ 13. “In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.” ― _Okakura Kakuzo_ 14. “Love speaks in flowers. Truth requires thorns.” ― _Leigh Bardugo_ 15. “Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” ― _Hans Christian Andersen_ 16. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” ― _John Lennon_ 17. “If the rose is a beautiful flower, it is also because it opens itself.” ― _Charles De Leusse_ 18. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.” ― _Max Muller_ 19. “By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.” ― _Rabindranath Tagore_ 20. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” ― _Gerard De Nerval_ 21. “The violet thinks, with her timid blue eye, to pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.” ― _Frances S. Osgood_ 22. “True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses.” — _Ana Claudia Antunes_ 23. “You see, there are no pretty pink flowers in the woods at night.” ― _J.K. Franko_ 24. “Happiness radiates like the fragrance from a flower and draws all good things towards you.” ― _Maharishi Mahesh Yogi_ 25. “A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.” ― _William J. Johnston_ 26. “Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” ― _John Harrigan_ 27. “Politeness is the flower of humanity.” ― _Joseph Joubert_ 28. “The Amen of nature is always a flower.” ― _Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr._ 29. “A [sunflower](https://www.flowersacrosssydney.com.au/flower-type/sunflowers/) field is like a sky with a thousand suns.” ― _Corina Abdulahm-Negura_ 30. “Even if the flower is no more, still, the fragrance can be.” ― _Jaggi Vasudev_ 31. “Every flower blooms in its own time.” ― _Ken Petti_ 32. “A house with [daffodils](https://www.flowersacross.com.au/flower-type/daffodils-jonquils/) in it is a house lit up, whether or not the sun be shining outside.” ― _A. A. Milne_ 33. “Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom.” ― _Jim Carrey_ 34. “After women, flowers are the most divine creations.” ― _Christian Dior_ 35. “When a flower doesn’t bloom you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower.” ― _Alexander Den Heijer_ 36. “Like wildflowers; You must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” – _E.V._ 37. “What a lovely thing a rose is!” ― _Arthur Conan Doyle_ 38. “In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation.” ― _Russian proverb_ ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/dandeline-flowerjpg-1782540385860-compressed.jpg) 39. “Flowers preach to us if we will hear.” ― _Christina Georgina Rossetti_ 40. “Give because you love to give – as the flower pours forth its perfume.” ― _Charles Haddon Spurgeon_ 41. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ― _Henri Matisse_ 42. “The [orchid](https://www.flowersacross.com.au/flower-type/orchids/) is Mother Nature’s masterpiece.” ― _Robyn_ 43. “Every flower must grow through dirt.” — _Laurie Jean Sennott_ 44. “A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” — _Matshona Dhliwayo_ 45. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” — _Frances Hodgson Burnett_ 46. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — _Lady Bird Johnson_ 47. “A flower does not think of competing with the flower next to it. It just blooms.” — _Zen Shin_ 48. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” — _Dr. SunWolf_ 49. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower, clearly our whole life would change.” ― _Buddha_ 50. “The fragrance of a Jasmine can stir up memories better than a thousand pictures.” ― _Unknown_ 51. “The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days.” ― _Archbishop Robert Leighton_ 52. “A violet by a mossy stone half-hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.” ― _William Wordsworth_ 53. “Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.” ― _John Ruskin_ 54. When admiring other people’s gardens, don’t forget to tend to your own flowers.” ― _Sanober Khan_ 55. “Lilies bloom when we laugh together.” — _Suyasha Subedi_ 56. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” — _Edwin Curran_ 57. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — _Claudia Adrienne Grandi_ 58. Love is like wildflowers; it’s often found in the most unlikely places.” — _Ralph Waldo Emerson_ 59. A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — _Max Muller_ 60. “She had a beautiful laugh which was like rain water pouring over daffodils made from silver.” ― _Richard Brautigan_ 61. “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_ ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/pink-blossom-flowerjpg-1782540385781-compressed.jpg) 62. “If you tend to a flower, it will bloom, no matter how many weeds surround it.” — _Matshona Dhliwayo_ 63. “May the petals teach me the art of letting go.” — _Xan Oku_ 64. “Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands.” — _Japanese Proverb_ 65. Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.” — _Bryant McGill_ 66. “Live simple, love well, and take time to smell the flowers along the way.” — _Mark Twain_ 67. Be like a flower. Survive the rain but use it to grow.” — _Unknown_ 68. I spent a lifetime in a garden one afternoon.” — _Craig D. Lounsbrough_ 69. “Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.” ― _John Dewey_ 70. “For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.” ― _Anne Morrow Lindbergh_ 71. “The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.” ― _Rabindranath Tagore_ 72. “From seeds of his body blossomed the flower that liberated a people and touched the soul of a nation.” ― _Jesse Jackson_ 73. “One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements.” ― _Marcelene Cox_ 74. “Growing violets is rewarding, as they demand little and give so much in return.” ― _Margaret Joan Roberts_ 75. “Even the tiniest of flowers can have the toughest roots.” ― _Shannon Mullen_ 76. “Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.” ― _Clare Ansberry_ 77. “Never look directly at the sun, instead look at the sunflower.” ― Vera Nazarian 78. “Wildflowers can’t be controlled, and neither can the girl with a soul boundless as the sky and a spirit as free and wild as the ocean.” — _Melody Lee_ 79. “Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.” — _Matshona Dhliwayo_ 80. “Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.” ― _Paul A.M. Dirac_ 81. “Flowers are words that even babes may understand.” ― _Arthur Cleveland Coxe_ 82. “Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” — Stephen Richards 83. “That queen of secrecy, the violet.” — John Keats 84. “One by one she slew her fears and then planted a flower garden over their graves.” ― John Mark Green 85.  “Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.” — _Luther Burbank_ ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/lily-flowerjpg-1-1782540387515-compressed.jpg) 86. “Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them.” — _Chinese Proverb_ 87. “I equate peonies with love because they’re the first blooms of summer.” ― _Isaac Mizrahi_ 88. “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_ 89. “A lily or a rose never pretends, and its beauty is that it is what it is.” ― _Jiddu Krishnamurti_ 90. “To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.” — _Beverly Nichols_ 91. “Knowledge is a garden. If it isn’t cultivated, you can’t harvest it.” ― _African Proverb_ 92. “When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.” ― _Rumi_ 93. “Never be afraid to be a poppy in a field of daffodils.” ― _Michaela DePrince_ 94. “I would far rather have two or three [lilies](https://www.flowersacrosssydney.com.au/flower-type/lilies/) of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that can be bought.” — _Elizabeth Gaskell_ 95. “Don’t let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.” — _Steve Maraboli_ 96. “I must have flowers, always, and always.” ― _Claude Monet_ 97. “The violets were past their prime, yet their departing breath was sweeter, in the blast of death, than all the lavish fragrance of the time.” ― _James Montgomery Boice_ ## Flower Captions for Instagram When we buy or receive flowers as a gift, one of the first things we want to do is share them with our Instagram family. A great image is definitely important, and so is the perfect caption. It can take your post to a whole other level. However composing one can be a little tricky. But don’t worry. We’ve got some great captions for you below ready to go. Therefore, next time, all you have to do is buy your own blooms to fit your IG caption. 1. Shine bright like a daisy 2. I daffodil love you 3. Good morning, my Dahlias 4. Let’s hibiscus it 5. Azalea, I dream of you 6. Fill me up, Buttercup 7. Puff the magic Snapdragon 8. Sunflower Sundays 9.  Always rooting for you. 10. When in doubt, add flowers 11. May you and your dreams blossom 12. Never fear, flowers are here ![](https://prod.superblogcdn.com/site_cuid_cmodzcy8v00gd01v0jf02au8w/images/wild-flowerjpg-1782540387600-compressed.jpg) 13. Rain or shine, sunflowers reign 14. Bloom with kindness 15. Iris on a shooting star 16. Poppy love 17. Don’t be late, I Begonia 18. Always look for the flowers. 19. Bloom, even at sunset 20. The truth Freesia 21. Peony but powerful 22. Let’s be orchid together 23. Let your dreams blossom 24. You made my daisy. 25. Gardens of the Galaxy. 26. You’re simply Iris-istible 27. Live life in full bloom. 28. Happiness blooms from within. 29. Put the petal to the metal 30. A peony for your thoughts? ## Final thoughts The beauty of flowers boldly speaks for itself. In fact, just the rose alone has more than [30,000 varieties](https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/lists/fragrant-rose-gardens), each exquisite in its unique way. Furthermore, quotes from heartfelt prose and poetry composed to describe this indescribable beauty have the power to connect us all in our collective admiration of these wonders of nature. You can gift this beauty to your loved ones. Alternatively, revel in it yourself all year round by buying flowers from [Flowers Across](https://www.flowersacross.com.au) to have [flowers delivered across Brisbane](https://www.flowersacross.com.au/brisbane/), [Sydney](https://www.flowersacross.com.au/sydney/) or [Melbourne](https://www.flowersacross.com.au/melbourne/). 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