Springtime is the classic symbol of renewal. The snow melts away to reveal a verdant green beneath the once frozen tundra. Where everything was once dark, gray, and gloomy, spring brings with it a youthfulness and freshness unlike any other season of the year.
The following spring quotes focus on the arrival of spring and those anxious folks in winter who can’t wait for spring to come. Let’s take a look at these spring quotes.
Waiting for Spring Quotes
“It was spring, the barren time in March when you cannot be sure if it is really warmer, but you are so desperate for change that you tell yourself the mud at the edge of the sidewalk is different than winter mud and you are sure that the smell of the soil has suddenly a bit of the scent of summer rains, of grass and drowned earthworms. And it has, because it is spring and inside the ground something is stirring.”
Maureen F. McHugh
“Following dark winter’s strife, a warm air rises, teemed with life. Birth, rebirth, as the waiting die. Old love, new love sprouts wings to fly.”
Phar West Nagle
“He smelled cold water and cold intrepid green. Those early flowers smelled like cold water. Their fragrance was not the still perfume of high summer; it was the smell of cold, raw green.”
Paul Harding
“A tree can be tempted out of its winter dormancy by a few hours of southerly sun—the readiness to believe in spring is stronger than sleep or sanity.”
my Leach, Things That Are
“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”
Gustav Mahler
“Spring will come and so will happiness. Hold on. Life will get warmer.”
Anita Krizzan
“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
“Does the robin sing because the cold of winter is leaving or the warmth of spring is coming? Or might he be singing because each without the other would lessen both?”
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Spring is here and my old joy blooms in the world.”
Steve Scafidi, For Love of Common Words: Poems
“In that part of the young year when the sun begins to warm its locks beneath Aquarius and nights grow shorter…”
Dante Alighieri
“The air is slightly chilly, but there’s a promise in the air. It might be rainy and cold and, okay, it wouldn’t be unheard of if it started snowing in April, but warm weather is coming. Things are growing, and I can feel it.”
Kerry Winfrey
“Spring is coming…. Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.”
Nanette Mathews
“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.”
Gertrude Wister
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
Virginia Woolf
“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
“The promise of spring’s arrival is enough to get anyone through the bitter winter!”
Jen Selinsky
“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
“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
“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
“Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.”
Lilly Pulitzer
“Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields… and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
“…I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists…”
John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
“The most beautiful springs are those that come after the most horrible winters!”
Mehmet Murat Ildan
“How silent are the footsteps of Spring!”
Henry David Thoreau, The Journal, 1837-1861
Arrival of Spring Quotes
“I loved spring; the way it made leaves whirled and swung through the trees, turning the sky grey. Spring would change the weather and plants too. The weather would begin to get warmer, and trees would grow new leaves. Spring would always bring rain and wind, but it never brought anything for me.”
Pratibha Malav, If Tomorrow Comes
“Springtime to me used to mean doing things – bicycling, fishing, canoeing. Now it seems more like the fulfillment of a divine promise.”
Willem Lange, Tales from the Edge of the Woods
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”
Charles Dickens
“Animate or inanimate, all bodies under the sun give expression to their vitality. Especially on a fine day in spring!”
Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
“Spring has arrived. Let me not despair.”
Gretchen Marquette, May Day: Poems
“April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.”
William Shakespeare
“‘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 sun was warm, but the wind was chill / You know how it is with an April day.”
Robert Frost
“Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter.”
Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
“Some old-fashioned things like fresh air and sunshine are hard to beat.”
Laura Ingalls Wilder
“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
“Lavender lilies all dotted with spots.
Sun-yellow daffodils clustered in pots.
Blue morning-glories climb trellises high.
Powder-white asters like stars in the sky.
Thick, pink peonies unfold in the sun.
Winter adieu now that spring has begun.”
Richelle E. Goodrich
“Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?”
Neltje Blanchan
“Spring’s greatest joy beyond a doubt is when it brings the children out.”
Edgar Guest
“The beautiful spring came, and when nature resumes her loveliness, the human soul is apt to revive also.”
Harriet Ann Jacobs
“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring.”
Richard L. Ratliff
“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can’t be done in one picture.”
David Hockney
“The trees were making their spring sounds, popping and cracking, the snow blowing by and whooshing against her skin, and spring birds making their small and distinctive calls.”
Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For as Long As the Rivers Flow
“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
Audrey Hepburn
“The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
Josiyah Martin
“Yes, I deserve a spring–I owe nobody nothing.”
Virginia Woolf, A Writer’s Diary
“Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.”
Gene Stratton-Porter, The Song of the Cardinal
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.”
Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life – Fennel’s Journal - No. 1
“Spring dances with joy in every flower and in every bud letting us know that changes are beautiful and an inevitable law of life.”
Debasish Mridha
“Springtime is nature at its best.”
Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
“Spring is the sound of birds chirping, the taste of cherry juice, the feel of grass on bare feet, the sight of pink roses and blue skies, and the feel of dandelion fuzz. Spring, in other words, is a welcome, wondrous sensory overload.”
Toni Sorenson
“That’s what I love so about the Spring. It’s full of promises.”
Charles Tritten, Heidi’s Children
“It’s exciting to see things coming up again, plants that you’ve had twenty or thirty years. It’s like seeing an old friend.”
Tasha Tudor, The Private World of Tasha Tudor
“Just as spring brings life to flowers and the moon moves tides on the shores, nothing is simply chance. Everything happens for a reason. Everything is a routine.”
Simeon Ivanov, 0.1%: Join the Club of The Richest, Healthiest, Happiest
Poetic Spring Quotes
“Springtime is the land awakening. The March winds are the morning yawn.”
Lewis Grizzard
“I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.”
Solange Nicole
“Spring unlocks the flowers to paint the laughing soil.”
Bishop Reginald Heber
“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
“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
“A kind word is like a spring day.”
Russian Proverb
“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
“She was like springtime distilled into a person.”
Laini Taylor, Strange the Dreamer
“It is spring again. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“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
“The hopeless hope is one of the early harbingers of spring, bespeaking an innocent belief that the world might right its wrongs and reverse its curses simply because the trees are coming into leaf.”
Aleksandar Hemon , The Book of My Lives
“She’d come running up the driveway and into the kitchen, bringing the spring morning behind her like a trail of hope.”
Loretta Nyhan, Empire Girls
“Gratitude is a harbinger of healing, the first robin of spring.”
Joyce Wycoff
“She could feel magic in the quiet spring day, like a sorcerer’s far-off voice, and lines of poetry floated over her mind as if they were strands of spider-web.”
Stella Gibbons
“You are reborn with the roses, in every spring.”
Juan Ramón Jiménez
“Spring is magic~ sweet to the senses and easy to celebrate.”
Susan Branch, Vineyard Seasons: More from the Heart of the Home
Funny Spring Quotes
“Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.”
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
“Pronounce these words slowly: forsythia, magnolia, azalea, redbud. Spring: it’s not a fantasy, it’s real.”
Marty Rubin
“Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!’”
Robin Williams
“If you wanna learn about change management, go meditate in a forest at the beginning of spring and then again in autumn.”
Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
“Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.”
W. Earl Hall
“Spring is when you feel like whistling, even with a shoe full of slush.”
Doug Larson
“In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather inside of 24 hours.”
Mark Twain
“Spring is the mischief in me.”
Robert Frost, North of Boston
“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
“In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.”
Margaret Atwood
“The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.”
Henry Van Dyke
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.”
Marty Rubin
Spring Love Quotes
“In springtime, love is carried on the breeze. Watch out for flying passion and kisses whizzing by your head.”
Emma Racine Defleur
“The beauty of spring makes my heart sing.”
Millie Florence
“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
Luther Burbank
“I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
Pablo Neruda
“Spring is the fountain of love for thirsty winter.”
Munia Khan
“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
“You make me feel so young, you make me feel so Spring has sprung.”
Frank Sinatra, You Make Me Feel So Young
“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, Spring Again
“In the spring when the wind is in the new leaves the echo of her voice may still be heard by the fall that bear her name.”
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
“Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with.”
Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
“They say sweethearts and squabbles are like flowers and rain. Takes both to make it springtime.”
Pamela Morsi, Courting Miss Hattie
“Spring comes when the flowers bloom; your love cannot be understood but you came alone. At some point you don’t have to be alone anymore.”
Meng Hui
End of Spring Quotes
“The month of May is the pleasant time; its face is beautiful; the blackbird sings his full song, the living wood is his holding, the cuckoos are singing and ever singing; there is a welcome before the brightness of the summer.”
Lady Gregory, Finn, Son of Cumhal
“There’s nothing more beautiful than watching trees getting dressed up for Spring and Summer.”
Charmaine J. Forde
“Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came.”
Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
“A perfect spring day! Enjoy it while it lasts because you don’t know what’s coming.”
Marty Rubin
“Most people liked it best in the early spring, when the woods down to the river seemed to shift almost before one’s eyes from snowdrop white to daffodil yellow to the shimmer of bluebells—when the rooks cawed furiously in the beeches, the garden woke to life in a splurge of rhododendrons, and the young lambs caught their heads five times a day in the fencing down the drive. I shall always remember it with the profoundest gratitude, though, as it was that May, that last May, in the last of my old summers.”
Jan Morris, Conundrum
“Here in this wild and beautiful spot amid the mountains, the dark woods, the rising mist, the new moon hanging above the silhouettes of the peaks, we waited, in spite of the night chill, until the last sunlight of the spring had ebbed from the sky.”
Edwin Way Teale, North with the Spring: A Naturalist’s Record of a 17,000-Mile Journey with the North American Spring
“A breeze blew softly, slightly rippling the water as it carried the heady scents of late Carolina springtime through the air. Honeysuckle. Jasmine. Ripe, pungent river mud. Ah, the world felt right.”
Caitlin Rush, Curses Beneath Her Feet
Wrapping Up
Spring is the promise of the whole year. The fresh smells and sunshine beaming down during the day bring about a sense of the future of summer. Whatever you need on this spring day, let one of the quotes above inspire you to do away with the old and let in the new.
