Quotes About Spring

The season to turn a new leaf

Whether you’re spring cleaning or looking at the flowers bloom, this is the season of new beginnings. From longer days to vibrant colors to the remnants of winter getting further behind us, these quotes are a celebration of the spring.

1. “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.” -L.M. Montgomery

2. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” -Anne Bradstreet

3. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” -Leo Tolstoy

4. “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” -Lilly Pulitzer

5. “A life without love is like a year without spring.” -Octavian Paler

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

7. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” -Robin Williams

8. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” -Algernon Charles Swinburne

9. “Spring…thaws the frozen fears, mends the wounded heart that winter has broken.” -Aarno Davidson

10. “The air was warm and balmy, carrying that subtle current, which caused the mild madness of spring fever.” -Zane Grey

11. “I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather that God has to offer.” -Dodie Smith

12. “Once there was a thing called spring when the world was writing verses like yours and mine.” -Ella Fitzgerald

13. “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

14. “Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.” -Doug Larson

15. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” -Susan J. Bissonette

16. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” -Margaret Atwood

17. “In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.” -Mark Twain

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

19. “A little madness in the spring Is wholesome even for the King….” -Emily Dickinson

20. “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

21. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” -Christina Rosetti

22. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” -S. Brown

23. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” -Jessica Harrelson

24. “Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.” -Anita Krizzan

25. “Spring is far more than just a changing of seasons; it’s a rebirth of the spirit.” -Toni Sorenson

26. “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

27. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” -John Muir

28. “Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.” -Bishop Reginald Heber

29. “It won’t be long until the springtime, when we may open the windows and breathe God’s fresh air….Soon will the birds come back….How cheerfully nature greets them. She puts out her leaves to hide their homes, and kisses them with the wind, the warm wind….Ah, spring, we wait for you; for as the sap mounts the limbs of the tree so hope rises and we become bright again.” -Charles F. Raymond

30. “The world very much alive in the bright light and wind, exultant with the fever of spring, the delight of morning….” -Edward Abbey

31. “Spring flowers are nature’s most fragrant charms.” -Angie Weiland-Crosby

32. “It’s spring again. I can hear the birds sing again. See the flowers start to bud. See young people fall in love.” -Lou Rawls

33. “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” -Rainer Maria Rilke

34. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” -Virginia Woolf

35. “Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?” -Neltje Blanchan 36. “Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.” -Vladimir Nabokov

37. “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

38. “Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.” -Unknown

39. “We all have preferences. I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” -Ruth Stout

40. “At this time of year, our weather nerves are right up on the surface. The bad seems worse and the good seems better than reality. We would give anything for a fine Spring-fever week and a little sunburn.” -Hal Borland

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

42. “The beautiful spring came; and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.” -Harriet Ann Jacobs

43. “Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed….Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.” -Henry David Thoreau

44. “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

45. “Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.” -Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

46. “She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: ‘Winter is dead.’” -A.A. Milne

47. “The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh.” -Rumi

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

49. “No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow.” -Proverb

50. “According to the latest authorities, spring fever, the cause of so much loss of energy, can be prevented by homemakers if they will feed their families in the winter season with plenty of green vegetables.” -Richard Gay Neville

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