80 Happy Spring Quotes & Sayings To Welcome The Season

If you live in the northern hemisphere like myself, you most likely are craving the signs of spring. Oh how I am dreaming of the birds chirping on a cool morning, the buds blossoming on the trees and the days becoming longer. 

Since it is early March in Canada, where I live, the signs of spring have not begun, so today, I’m collecting my favourite spring quotes to get in the spirit of spring.

And hopefully, the signs of slightly warmer days will begin soon – although I’m being realistic, so I’m not holding my breath at this point!

The spring quotes you find below are broken up into the following categories to help you find what you’re looking for. 

• Inspiring Spring Quotes
• Spring Quotes by Famous Authors
• Spring Quotes from Musicians
• Short Spring Quotes
• Nature Quotes to Embrace Spring
• Cute Spring Sayings

As you read through them I’d love to know – what’s your favourite spring quote AND what do you love most about spring? Share in the comments section at the bottom of this post.

1. “An optimist is the human personification of spring.” – Susan J. Bissonette

2. “Which of us can’t honestly almost sob with joy when spring happens?” – Stephen Fry

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

4. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” – Kobayashi Issa, Poems

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

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

7. “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” – Langston Hughes

8. “The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale

 9. “Spring work is going on with joyful enthusiasm.” – John Muir

11. “Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” – Jessica Harrelson

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

13. “Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.” – Doug Larson

14. “Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.” – Ellis Peters

15. “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” – Ruth Stout

Spring Quotes by Famous Authors

16. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” – E.E. Cummings, Complete Poems: 1904-1962

18. “That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.” – L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

19. “I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.” – Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

20. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde

21. “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, Jane Eyre

22. “Spring is the time of plans and projects.” – Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

23. “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” – Margaret Atwood, Bluebeard’s Egg

24. “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, Tom Sawyer

25. “Happiness? The color of it must be spring green.” – Frances Mayes, Bella Tuscany

26. “The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, supposed that he had come to dwell, and life would be all spring.” – Emily Dickinson

27. “The earth laughs in flowers” – Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hamatreya

28. “…as young and as ancient as Spring…” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

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

30. “Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.” – Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary

Spring Quotes from Musicians

31. “You make me feel so young, you make me feel so spring has sprung” – Frank Sinatra

33. “In the springtime of his voodoo, he was going to show me spring.” – Tori Amos

34. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” – Henry Rollins

35. “April, come she will, when streams are ripe and swelled with rain.” – Simon & Garfunkel

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

37. “Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.” ― Langston Hughes

38. “A little flower that blooms in May. A lovely sunset at the end of a day. Someone helping a stranger along the way. That’s heaven to me.” – Sam Cooke

39. “And in the spring I shed my skin, and it blows away with the changing winds” – Florence & The Machine

40. “Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter. Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been here. Here comes the sun, Here comes the sun, and I say, It’s all right.” – The Beatles, Here Comes The Sun

Short Spring Quotes

41. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!'” – Robin Williams

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

43. “When one flower blooms, spring awakens everywhere.” – John O’Donohue

44. “My favorite weather is bird chirping weather.” – Terri Guillemets

45. “Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.” – Thomas Tusser

46. “Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” – Christina Rossetti

47. “How silent are the footsteps of Spring!” – Henry David Thoreau

48. “Spring breathes new life into the world around us.” – Unknown

49. “Blossom by blossom the spring begins.” – Algernon Charles Swinburne

50. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.” – Yoko Ono

52. “Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.” – Munia Khan

53. “From the end spring new beginnings.” – Pliny The Elder

54. “A kind word is like a spring day.” – Russian Proverb

55 .“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring.” – Richard L. Ratliff

56. “Spring shows what God can do with a drab and dirty world.” – Virgil A. Kraft

Nature Quotes To Embrace Spring

57. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” – Oscar Wilde

58. “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” – Audrey Hepburn

59. “By all means, never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.” – Joseph Pilates

60. “Truly the schemes and wonders of nature are illimitable.” – Charles Darwin

61. “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

62. “The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world.” –  Charles Dudley Warner

64. “My wish is to stay always like this, living quietly in a corner of nature.” – Claude Monet

65. “Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature.” – Gerard De Nerval

66. “Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.” – Helen Keller

67. “April is the kindest month. April gets you out of your head and out working in the garden.” – Marty Rubin

68. “You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.” – Juan Ramón Jiménez

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

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

Cute Spring Sayings

71. Spring has sprung

72. Hello sunshine

73. Spring is in the air

74. Bloom where you are planted

75. Hello spring

76. Bloom baby bloom

77. The earth laughs in flowers

79. Spring blessings

80. The best time for new beginnings is now

Why I Love Spring

It’s a time that the season and myself can crawl out of the winter slumber. 

I begin to feel stress and worry release as I focus on the things that truly light me up – the blossoming buds on neighbourhood trees, waking to the chirping of birds, thoughts of planning my garden, longer days of sunshine, and finally wearing less layers of clothes.

I’d Love To Know: What Do You Love Most About Spring?

Share in the comments below & also share your favourite spring quote.

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