55 Delightful Quotes About Daisies

Daisies are such simple and common flowers that you might be thinking that there’s nothing special about them. But you need not look further than these delightful collection of quotes about daisies!

Remember the simple joys in life with every mention of daisy chains. Get to know the happiness and sadness in loving someone with our compilation of love quotes about daisies.

Quotes About Daisies

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The flowers we call daisies typically have more petals, and each petal grows separate from the others. It’s important to know the difference or you may confuse the meaning. Daisy means ‘innocence’, which is a very different sentiment than ‘welcome.’ — Vanessa Diffenbaugh

A rose would be miserable if it was forced to be a daisy, no matter how much water it was fed. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Saying all one feels and thinks
In clever daffodils and pinks;
In puns of tulips and in phrases,
Charming for their truth, of daisies. — Leigh Hunt

The brief silence that follows is as tender as a rainstorm of daisies. — Mathias Malzieu

Daisies are perennials; they always grow back. —  A.C. Williams

Daisies are what boho dreams are made of. They bring to mind sun-soaked wild flower fields, spontaneous wanderings in the country air the simple joys of bundling found blooms and foliage into a worn basket. — Chantal Larocque

The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place. — Percy Bysshe Shelley 

When a girl suddenly asks you out of a blue sky if you don’t sometimes feel that the stars are God’s daisy-chain, you begin to think a bit. — P.G. Wodehouse

We could have counted our problems on the petals of the daisy in my bouquet, but it wouldn’t be long before we were lost in a field of them. — Ashley Audrain 

The night was so very still that one should have been able to hear the whisper of roses in blossom—the laughter of daisies—the piping of grasses—many sweet sounds, all tangled up together. The beauty of moonlight on familiar fields irradiated the world. — L.M. Montgomery

I’ve been longing for,
Daisies to push through the floor,
And I wish that plant life would grow all around me,
So I won’t feel dead anymore. — Owl City

Patience stoutly resists pulling up the daisies to see how the roots are doing. — Neal A. Maxwell

She was probably a trusting, naïve girl before him, like a daisy. And then he came, and pulled her petals off one by one, forcing her to surround herself with thorns to survive. — Sara Wolf

Teach the children. We don’t matter so much, but the children do. Show them daisies and the pale hepatica. Teach them the taste of sassafras and wintergreen. — Mary Olive

The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,
His pen a point of light. — Joyce Kilmer

No one’s going to notice the difference between you pushing dandelions or daisies, so leave them something worth talking about. — Amrit Brar 

I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don’t think about it
Because thinking is not understanding… — Fernando Pessoa 

Everyone’s born as clean as a whistle—
As fresh as a daisy
And not a bit crazy.
Staying that way’s a hard row for hoeing—
As rough as a briar,
Like walking through fire. — Suzanne Collins

You say I resemble a flower; I partly agree; My brain is governed by black petals of burnt daisies. — Anne Sexton

Soon there would be daisies, wild carrot and all manner of other flowers to delight the bees. What men designated a place of death, nature ever filled with abundant life. — William Savage

Look out! He’s got a daisy! — Terry Pratchett

Out of all the piles of dirt, garbage, and shit we have been handed, we can grow a patch of daisies. — Patti Feuereisen 

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections,
Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered,
Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it — Arthur Hugh Clough 

I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. — Neil Gaiman

A daisy doesn’t need the roses’ permission to bloom—and neither do you.— Chris Colfer 

Everybody’s wondering, how can I arrange the daisies and dandelions of my life into a better bouquet? The answer is, you can’t. Life is random. Life is absurd. Life is deadly. The bouquet arranges itself. And it doesn’t always bloom or smell good. — Conrad Wesselhoeft

Daisies. They outlast roses, and they’re tough little flowers. — Carolyn Brown

Had she never been hungry enough to eat a flower? Did she not know that you could eat daisies, daylilies, pansies, and marigolds? That hungry enough, a person could consume the bright faces of violas, even the stems of dandelions and the bitter hips of roses? — Adam Johnson

Daisy, simple and discreet flower,
That earned the heart of this poet. — Luís Alexandre Ribeiro Branco 

I am tired, blissfully tired. Do you suppose that daisies feel blissfully tired when they shut for the night and the dews descend upon them? — Katherine Mansfield 

In their white-daisy bouquet of slim pickings, they cast out all the yellow chrysanthemums, and anything brown was considered wilted. — Alice Pung

Our parenting chapters become
the beginning of our children’s stories
in glorious, dog-eared, mud-stained,
daisy-chain pages of sunshine-filled
days and wish-on-a-star nights and
shared struggles and triumphs
and tears and laughter.
Where their stories go from
there is up to them,
but where they begin is up to us. — L.R. Knost

Until we’re pushing up daisies, it might be good to remind ourselves daily that everything’s coming up roses — for me and for you. — Gina Barreca

I entertain myself with a never-ending daisy chain of crushes to fritter away my time and excess emotion. […] I like my mind to be crowded with furniture, not empty with echoing footsteps. — Tilly Lawless 

Love Quotes About Daisies

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The Daisy follows soft the Sun—
And when his golden walk is done—
Sits shyly at his feet—
He—waking—finds the flower there—
Wherefore—Marauder—art thou here?
Because, Sir, love is sweet! —  Emily Dickinson

Gods must be crazy
Flowers must be daisy
Clouds must be hazy
Winds must be lazy
What else it could be…
My heart must be in love lately… — Heenashree Khandelwal

Daisies, simple and sweet. Daisies are the way to win my heart. — Patrick Rothfuss

The bed was no longer a daisy-field for her and Joe to play in. It was a place where she went and laid down when she was sleepy and tired. — Zora Neale Hurston 

I keep stars in my pockets wear daisies in my hair but I tuck you tenderly
in the folds of my heart and take you everywhere. — Melody Lee

Their desire was silent yet magnificent, like a thousand daisies attuning their faces toward the path of the sun. — Jeffrey Eugenides

And if he is not quite as old
As the boy you used to know,
And less proud too, and worthier,
You may not let him go.
(And daisies are truer than passion flowers)
It will be better so. — Roland Leighton

I felt like a child plucking daisy petals: I trust him, I trust him not, I trust him, I trust him not. — Karen Marie Moning 

People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn’t know were there, even the ones they wouldn’t have thought to call beautiful themselves. — Hilary Smith

And what’s romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose, and it’s always daisy-time. — D.H. Lawrence

When love dissipates, it’s like dancing with daisies at midnight, and you don’t get easy at it when you’re deceased. And make no mistake, you will die before romance will. — Jarod Kintz 

I would need … daisy love, you know, pretty love, sweet love that nonetheless was ubiquitous in roadside ditches in the summertime, and instead I would get orchid love. Love that needed misting and replanting and pruning and fertilizing and died anyway. — Mary Ann Rivers 

I know: yes, no, even I must tear off
The delicate daisy petals.
Everyone on earth is destined to feel
The torments of love. — Anna Akhmatova 

Wildflower’s blue surprise.
Daisy’s white, sunny play.
You’re more beautiful than yesterday. — Pat Mora 

We’re a telephone family, strung out along the wires, sharing our news in loops and daisy chains. We don’t meet face-to-face much, and when we do there’s a dematerialized feeling, as though only half of our molecules are present. — Walter Kirn

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