The tulip is an iconic flower that evokes different interpretations. To some, they are a symbol of extreme wealth, with their price at one point being higher than gold. To some, they are a representation of fun and freedom. But to others, they are underrated flowers of love – used less than the rose, but a more sincere signifier of love.
This collection of tulip quotes shows how this flower has inspired people. Discover how these flowers have been written about among a wide range of themes, from heartfelt tulip love quotes to creative tulip quotes and poems.
If you’re looking for more specific information about the symbolism of tulips and their spiritual meaning, read our article Tulip Symbolism & Spiritual Meaning (By Color).
Positive Tulip Quotes
I love tulips better than any other spring flower; they are the embodiment of alert cheerfulness and tidy grace, and next to a hyacinth look like a wholesome, freshly tubbed young girl beside a stout lady whose every movement weighs down the air with patchouli. – Elizabeth von Arnim
And tulips, children love to stretch their fingers down—to feel in each Its beauty’s secret nearer. – Elizabeth Browning
Tra-la the joy of tulips blooming, Ha-ha the thrill of bumblebees zooming. I’m alive and I dance, I’m alive though death is always looming. – Jeanne Birdsall
Sweet scents, red tulips. Red tulips bring such happiness. Our hearts are full of pleasure. – Natasa Tocuc
Honey, no matter where you are, I’m with you.
When the breeze brushes your cheek, that’s me.
When the stars sparkle and shine, that’s me.
When the tulips bloom in the spring, that’s me.
– Lisa Schroeder
Contempt for flowers is an offense against God. The lovelier the flower, the greater the offense in despising it. The tulip is the loveliest of all flowers. So whoever despised the tulip, offends God immeasurably. – Alexandre Dumas
Inspirational Tulip Flower Quotes
The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there. – Marya Hornbacher
Tulips are the only flowers that continue to grow, up to an inch or more, after they’re cut. – Sarah Jio
These seeds will always be tulips, even if at the moment you cannot tell them apart from other flowers. They will never turn into roses or sunflowers, no matter how much they might desire to. And if they try to deny their own existence, they will live life bitter and die. – Paulo Coelho
Deep in the drilled–in mud of the fields behind me, our bulbs are wrapped in their brittle skins with their messages of color stored inside. Blue iris, yellow crocus, tulips of all colors. – Anna Smaill
I identified with the life cycle of tulips and other perennials. Their hopeful rebirth each year, enabled by a graceful return to the ground. Rotting as a means to transform. – Rana Awdish
The bubble logic driving tulipomania has since acquired a name: “the greater fool theory.” Although by any conventional measure it is folly to pay thousands for a tulip bulb (or for that matter an Internet stock), as long as there is an even greater fool out there willing to pay even more, doing so is the most logical thing in the world. – Michael Pollan
But why should the daffodils and tulips
Get all the praise and blessings?
My rebirth goes unnoticed- I am worthy
Of smiles and dazzled cries of worship. – Lea Malot
We get so caught up weeding the yard that we completely miss the tulips that nature gives us for a few precious weeks. We postpone joy. – Amit Sood
Dirt is chaos, gritty, full of bugs and decay, but from that dirt comes such immense beauty. Roses, tulips, tomatoes, peonies, raspberries, oranges, magnolias…and even me. – R.S. Grey
Tulip Love Quotes
Never blur or erase love for those who once brought greenery and blossomed tulips during the dry and thorny phase. – Spirha Kant
He has an armload of irises and daisies and tulips and he presents them to me. “I didn’t know what kind of flowers you like.”
“I like them all.” – Carrie Jones
I don’t know how I stay alive. What I do know is that there is a light, far above us, that goes out when we die, and that in Hell there is a gray tulip that grows without any sun. It reminds me of everything I failed at, and I water it carefully. It is all I have to remind me of you. – Sarah Manguso
All my tulips are white. She liked them red. I stained them with my blood and she came running for a hug. Every tulip that blossomed since became hungry for my red. One day, I ran out of my blood and the next one that came flowered in white. That’s the end of us. – Kalyan Reddy
…its treasures, as I love them, are imprinted in my memory; and if they are wrongly memorized–a lily where there are tulips, the boy’s torn hat rakish at the wrong angle–then this only makes the pictures more mine. – Claire Messud
He thought of the grammar of Gaelic, in which you did not say you were in love with someone, but that you ‘had love toward’ her, as if it were a physical thing you could present and hold–a bundle of tulips, a golden ring, a parcel of tenderness. – Jodi Picoult
She loved him the way one loves an old bridge or a wool sweater or the sound of a growing tulip. – Joseph Fink
I held my grief like two limp
tulips. What am I allowed to
have? I’m still
here. I’m still hers. I’m
still a body licked by stars. – Erika L. Sánchez
Surely, he knows that, in the language of flowers, to give a woman tulips is a declaration of … love? – Grace Hitchcock
Short Tulip Quotes
How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing? – Mary Astell
I’m a tulip in a cup. I stand no chance of growing up. – Fiona Apple
A good friend will help you plant your tulips. A great friend will help you plant a gun on the unarmed intruder you just shot. – Brian P. Cleary
My favorite flower is the tulip. I’m crazy like Holland about them. I’ll even pay as much as $1,637 for one. – Jarod Kintz
I don’t need to drink to get drunk. I can get drunk on things like the tulip–and this night. – Betty Smith
You reap exactly what you sow; that is, you cannot grow tulips from zucchini seeds. – Anne Lamott
He doesn’t approve of anything about you. But when you laugh, he perks up like a tulip in fresh water. – Leigh Bardugo
If a purple tulip could talk she would say something calm, cool and wise, without the flash of a soothing balm. – Amelia Brown
The significance of the rose? I thought. Who gives a shit? What’s the significance of the white tulips? That was a question worth answering. – John Green
Tulip Quotes and Poems
Here are the tulips,
budded and full-blown,
their swoops and dips, their gloss and poses,
the satin of their darks. – Margaret Atwood
Hope. It’s like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It’s a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it’s the only thing in the world keeping me afloat. – Tahereh Mafi
She’s always getting into trouble because she gets bored really really easily. […]
My mum says it’s because Celia has an attention span the size of a sesame seed.
Celia’s mum says it’s because Celia’s identity is unfurling itself slowly, like a tulip bud, and it’s a breathtakingly beautiful thing to see. – Jaclyn Moriarty
But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter’s evening. I remember them. – Neil Gaiman
The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups but chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty. When they are old they turn themselves inside out, explode slowly, the petals thrown like shards. – Margaret Atwood
I want to know:
Why is a horse noble and the dove beloved
but no one keeps a pet vulture in a gilded cage.
Why is the humble clover trodden upon rather than the red tulip.
I want to see anew and wash the words of the world
in wind and rain. – Sohrab Sepehri
This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent. – Mark Doty
Brush your teeth with gasoline.
Sleep all day and climb trees at night.
Be a monk and drink buckshot and beer.
Hold your head under water and play the violin.
Do a belly dance before pink candles.
Kill your dog.
Run for mayor.
Live in a barrel.
Break your head with a hatchet.
Plant tulips in the rain.
But don’t write any more poetry.
– Charles Bukowski
The tulips are too excitable; it is winter here
Look at how white everything is, how quiet, how snowed in
I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly
As light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands
I am nobody, I have nothing to do with explosions
I have given my name and my dayclothes to the nurses, and my history to the anesthetist, and my body to the surgeons
– Sylvia Plath
Authors of light pieces have, nobody knows why, a genius for getting into minor difficulties: they walk into the wrong apartments, they drink furniture polish for stomach bitters, they drive their cars into the prize tulip beds of haughty neighbors, they playfully slap gangsters, mistaking them for old school friends. – James Thurber
Things I love about spring are these:
Blooming flowers on fruit-bearing trees.
Fire-red tulips–their first reveal–
Followed by sun-yellow daffodils. – Richelle E. Goodrich
I set out to find my peace in the skies and the tulips, in the howling of the winds, in the rain under the shed and it was right there residing within me. – Suyasha Subedi
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