165 Beautiful CHERRY BLOSSOM QUOTES and CAPTIONS for Instagram

1. “What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa

2. “Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.” — Erik Pevernagie

3. “Everything blooms in its own time.” — Ken Petti

4. “If there were no, cherry blossoms, in this world, how much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.”— Ariwara no Narihira

5. “How many, many things they call to mind these cherry-blossoms!” — Bashō Matsuo

6. “The Japanese school year begins in spring. So mothers can send off their children as cherry blossoms fall from the branches.” — Cathy Davidson

7. “I have a pretty good memory, but memories are time beings, too, like cherry blossoms or ginkgo leaves; for a while they are beautiful, and then they fade and die.” — Ruth Ozeki

8. “Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom”. — Matsuo Basho

9. “If you’ve never been thrilled to the very edges of your soul by a flower in spring bloom, maybe your soul has never been in bloom.” — Audra Foveo

10. “I bloomed up all over again despite knowing, cherry blossoms are only meant to wither.” — Eayra

11. “I was for a while troubled with the haunting fear that if I handled the flower freely its bloom would fade—the sweet charm of freshness would leave it. I did not know then that it was no transitory blossom, but rather the radiant resemblance of one, cut in an indestructible gem.” — Charlotte Brontë

12. “A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world; it just blooms.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

13. “Cherry blossom is falling, Cherry blossom is on its way out, Hear a new word is calling, It hears me too and it wants me to shout it out.” — Nitzer Ebb

14. “Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, are gone forever, yet mindless. The spring comes again.” — Ikkyu Sojun

15. “Yes, the cherry trees put this truth very plainly: none of the glory of blossoms and autumn leaves lasts long in this fleeting world.” — Murasaki Shikibu

16. “The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.” — Peggy Orenstein

17. “Cherry blossom cherry blossom It’s the air that we breathe How have we forgotten what it means to be” — Haelos

18. “And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze, and so the blossoms fall, and so my days.” — Onitsura

19. “I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.” — Yoshida Kenko

20. “White cherry blossom behold the joy of spring, As white cherry blossom blooms, For it will be over soon.” — Christopher Tye

21. “Soldiers falling fast, Battle of white and scarlet, Blossoms on the ground.” —David Kudler

22. “Yes, the cherry trees put this truth very plainly: none of the glory of blossoms and autumn leaves lasts long in this fleeting world.” — Murasaki Shikibu

23. “It is true, as they say, that the blossoms of spring are all the more precious because they bloom so briefly.” — Murasaki Shikibu

24. “There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you.” — Murasaki Shikibu

25. “Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life’s fickleness, she thought.” — Alice Poon

26. “Due to their short bloom time, Sakura blossoms are a metaphor for life itself: beautiful yet fleeting. You’ll realize when you’re as old as me to hang on to the good times because they won’t last forever.” — Shannon M Mullen

27. “Since ancient times, the Japanese have heralded the arrival of the cherry blossoms because they symbolize the ephemeral beauty of life.” — Victoria Abbott Riccardi

28. “The ancients waited for cherry blossoms, grieved when they were gone, and lamented their passing in countless poems. How very ordinary the poems had seemed to Sachiko when she read them as a girl, but now she knew, as well as one could know, that grieving over fallen cherry blossoms was more than a fad or convention.” — Junichiro Tanizaki

29. “I’d like to divide myself in order to see, among these mountains, each and every flower of every cherry tree.” — Saigyo

30. “Donated by Japan, cherry blossoms grace the paths where a wall once stood in Berlin. Walls divide. Flowers unite.” — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

31. “The significance of the cherry blossom tree in Japanese culture goes back hundreds of years. In their country, the cherry blossom represents the fragility and the beauty of life. It’s a reminder that life is almost overwhelmingly beautiful but that it is also tragically short.” — Homaro Cantu

32. “A cherry tree was coming into bloom, shooting out a froth of sugar-pink blossoms. She could see from its size and the gnarled branches that it was a mature tree, yet still capable of putting on such a wonderful show. A new beginning every spring, even from an old tree.” — Maggie Alderson

33. “Suddenly she was seeing the buds on the cherry trees around her; she could feel the energy packed within them, a bouquet of fireworks whose fuse had already been lit. She could smell them, too, a subtle essence of pink and lollipops, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them.” — Erica Bauermeister

34. “She holds the acceptance letter in her hand; the sweet smell of the bird cherry tree wafts in through the open kitchen window. Her mother’s apron is covered in black and purple flowers. Maya shuts her eyes, breathes in the spicy aroma of bird cherry blossoms.” — Anne Østby

35. “Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.” — Erik Pevernagie

36. “Light as feathers, as fleeting as Zephyr, one moment they breathed pink, the next they faded. Cherry blossoms were as much an inspiration for beautiful verse as they were a reminder of life’s fickleness, she thought.” — Alice Poon

37. “The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. … The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.” — Sylvia Plath

38. “What a strange thing! to be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa

39. “And so the spring buds burst, and so I gaze,  And so the blossoms fall, and so my days …” — Onitsura

40. “Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers; But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms.” — Ikkyu Sojun

41. “Ah, if in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.” — Ariwara no Narihira

42. “The cherry blossom tree is truly a sight to behold, especially when it is in full riotous bloom. There are several varieties of the cherry blossom tree, and while most of them produce flowering branches full of small pinkish-hued flowers, some of them produce actual cherries.” — Homaro Cantu

43. “I wouldn’t mind if life left me… wingless burnt to cinders ripped by storms scattered…like weeds celestially wounded without cherry blossoms to perish with but I would cry with head held in my hands if it left me…unfulfilled.” — Sanober Khan

44. “When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.” — Rajneesh

45. “Stopping to smell the cherry blossoms.”

46. “Cherry blossoms in the air.”

47. “Let your dreams bloom like cherry blossoms.” — Intrepid Scout

48. “I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda

49. “Hello again cherry blossom!”

50. “You can crush the flowers, But you can’t stop the spring.”

51. “Spring is here to say hello.’

52. “Stop and smell the cherry blossoms.”

53. “Pink flowers and blue skies.”

54. “I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda

55. “Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.” — John Lennon

56. “Outside it’s a perfect spring night. We stand on the sidewalk in front of our apartment building, and Henry takes my hand, and I look at him, and I raise our joined hands and Henry twirls me around and soon we’re dancing down Belle Plaine Avenue, no music but the sound of cars whooshing by and our own laughter, and the smell of cherry blossoms that fall like snow on the sidewalk as we dance underneath the trees.” — Audrey Niffenegger

57. “The fragrant fallen blossoms have passed me by, I closed my eyes for a moment and thought of you.” — Denis J Ryan Harman

58. “To the one I love Cherry blossom girl.”

59. “My love for you blossoms every day.”

60. “A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and a man cannot live without love.” — Max Muller

61. “I feel as though as I touch those cherry-blossom petals Cup the budding cherry flowers in my hands I am slowly, yet lovingly stroking Brigid’s silky pretty face.” — Nobody Nose

62. “Flowers enshrine my heart between their petals; that’s why my heartbeats love them so much.” — Munia Khan

63. “Always it’s spring and everyone’s in love and flowers pick themselves.” — E.E. Cummings

64. “In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.” — Kobayashi Issa

65. “I need you like a blossom needs rain, like the winter ground needs spring-to soothe my parched soul.” — Solange nicole

66. “If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.” — Claudia Adrienne Grandi

67. “Darling, you’re the beauty of a hummingbird and the standstill of a cherry blossom.” — Cheyenne Raine

68. “If in this world there were no such thing as cherry blossoms, perhaps then in springtime our hearts would be at peace.” — Ariwara no Narihira

69. “Love is like cherry blossoms. They bloom at the first promise of spring. They beautify even the grayest landscape, they scatter at the first gust of wind. But as they hold, when you look at them, you steal a little view of paradise.” — Georgia Kakalopoulou

70. “My love for you blossoms like the Spring.”

71. “The first blooms of spring always make my heart sing.” — S. Brown

72. “Elsewhere the single-petalled cherry blossoms fell, the doubles faded, mountain cherries bloomed, and the wisteria colored.” — Murasaki Shikibu

73. “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet

74. “If I were asked to explain the Japanese spirit, I would say it is wild cherry blossoms glowing in the morning sun.” — Motoori Norinaga

75. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough.” — Alfred Housman

76. “So cross me cherry blossom tree For you have witnessed it all You’ve seen the world change suddenly At its height and at its fall.”  — Imaginary Cities

77. “I recall the months and years I spent as the intimate of someone whose affections have now faded like cherry blossoms scattering even before a wind blew.” — Yoshida Kenko

78. “Earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. “Between our two lives, there is also the life of the cherry blossom.” — Bashō Matsuo

80. “When an incidental color or a random fragrance takes possession of our imagination, we can unexpectedly blossom into a new entity as it gives us wings and enlightens our horizon, just like canary birds that feel stimulated and start singing as soon as they sense the radiance of the sun through the reflection of the skylight.” — Erik Pevernagie

81. “One day we strolled down the Philosopher’s Path, which proved as enchanting as I had hoped in the fragrant pink bloom of spring. Since ancient times, the Japanese have heralded the arrival of the cherry blossoms because they symbolize the ephemeral beauty of life.” — Victoria Abbott Riccardi

82. “But it isn’t just the three or four days of open flowers that stirs the senses. It is their arrival and departure. Looking at a bud about to burst open offers the pleasurable anticipation of rebirth, while the soft scattering of petals on the ground is often considered the most beautiful stage of all because it represents the death of the flowers.” — Victoria Abbott Riccardi

83. “For in spite of the snapdragons and the duty millers and the cherry blossoms, it was always winter.” — Janet Frame

84. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.” — Honore de Balzac

85. “A flower blossoms for its own joy.” — Oscar Wilde

86. “In the cherry blossom’s shade there’s no such thing as a stranger.” —Kobayashi Issa 

87. “They hung in huge clusters from the black austerity of the branches like a mass of white seashells spread over a reef. The evening wind made the curtains billow along the path, and when it caught the tips of the branches, they bent gracefully in a rustle of blossoms. Then the great, widespread branches themselves began to sway with an easy grandeur under their weight of white. The pallor of the flowers was tinged here and there by pink clusters of buds. And with almost invisible subtlety, the star-shaped centre of each blossom was marked with pink in tiny, sharp strokes, like the stitches holding a button in place.” — Yukio Mishima

88. “It looks like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane The sunshine of your smile’s no longer there It looks like rain in Cherry Blossom Lane Your golden voice no longer fills the air.” — Guy Lombardo

89. “Looking about I see no cherry blossoms, And no crimson leaves, A straw-thatched hut by a bay, In the autumn dusk.” — Fujiwara no Teika

90. “I’ve seen spring come to the orchard every year as far back as I can remember and I’ve never grown tired of it. Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms you know. He didn’t have to make apple trees and peach trees burst into flower and fragrance. But God just loves to splurge. He gives us all this magnificence and then, if that isn’t enough, He provides fruit from such extravagance.” — Lynn Austin

91. “What’s your story baby? No control of what I am saying Winter leaves still make me believe No vendettas, just a cherry blossom tree.” — Manic Street Preachers

92. “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now is hung with bloom along the bough.” — A. E. Housman

93. “Cherry plum blossoms on the workroom bench Where we can see it all our working hours. In all my garden days of ladyhood, I never met girls who so loved sweet flowers.” — Lesbia Harford

94. “I have a pretty good memory but memories are time being, too, like cherry blossoms on ginkgo leaves; for a while, they are beautiful and then they fade and die.” — Ruth Ozeki

95. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly our whole life would change.” — Buddha

96. “The cloud-like effect of the cherry trees in bloom on Mount Yoshino has inspired poets and common folk in Japan for over a thousand years” — Ann McClellan

97. “A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.” — Terri Guillemets

98. “A flower must bloom inside first before revealing its beauty to the world.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

99. “It would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery

100. “I hiked out to the country On a path of self-discovery But all I found was a cherry blossom tree as I believe in harming melodies hypnotized by a silent breeze The of this cherry blossom tree.” — Song by Imaginary Cities

101. “Oh, the wonder of it! The outrageous beauty! God didn’t have to give us cherry blossoms you know.” — Lynn Austin

102. “It is spring time now! While the world looks for a new war to fight, you look for a cherry blossom to watch! Let the stupid seeks the violence; you seek the elegance!” — Mehmet Murat İldan

103. “Let your dreams bloom like cherry blossoms.”

104. “The work of preservation demands that the feelings playing about in one’s guts not be turned into action. Just watch their passing like cherry blossoms.” — Maxine Hong Kingston

105. “All around us the blossoms flurry down whispering, Be patient you have an ancient beauty.” — Toi Derricotte

106. “The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love they will bloom like flowers.” — Nhat Hanh

107. “Spring is proof that change can be beautiful.”

108. “This year may have been hard but the cherry blossom flowers still bloom.” — Intrepid Scout

109. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.” — Walter Hagen

110. “A cherry tree was coming into bloom, shooting out a froth of sugar-pink blossoms. She could see from its size and the gnarled branches that it was a mature tree, yet still capable of putting on such a wonderful show. A new beginning every spring, even from an old tree.” — Maggie Alderson

111. “A flower does not bloom for itself, but for the world; do likewise.” — Matshona Dhliwayo

112. “Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” — Stephen Richards

113. “As you scatter and leave, we’ll wait for your return. In next year’s spring, a life that is renewed.” — Akiko Ichimaru

114. “Let us find inner freedom in each lucky moment that we encounter, like a sun-basking butterfly that finds peace on a cherry blossom petal.” — Erik Pevernagie

115. “Come see the cherry trees of a water constellation and the round key of the rapid universe, come touch the fire of instantaneous blue, come before its petals are consumed.” — Pablo Neruda

116. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” —Frances Hodgson Burnett

117. “Where flowers bloom so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson

118. “Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of spring—these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with faded flowers are worthier of our admiration.” — Yoshida Kenko

119. “Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, are gone forever, yet mindless, the spring comes again.” — Ikkyu

120. “Dance with the flowers of enlightenment—then watch as your mind and body blossom as you begin to harvest the fruits of self-progression and self-realization.” — Natasha Potter

121. “Open the bloom of your heart and become a gift of beauty to the world.”  — Bryant McGill

123. “When the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.” — Rajneesh

124. “Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.” — Ikkyu

125. “These blooming blossom trees with pink flowering branches are a sight to behold and fill hearts with joy.”

126. “One of the legends suggesting why the cherry trees’ blossoms are so exquisite and ephemeral says that the fairy Ko-no-hana-sakuya-hime, the ‘maiden who causes trees to bloom,’ hovers low in the spring sky, awakening the sleeping trees with her delicate breath.” — Ann McClellan

127. “On a moonlit night, after a snowfall, or under cherry blossoms, it adds to our pleasure if, while sitting at our ease, we bring forth the wine cups.” — Yoshida Kenko

128. “As I caress the pink cherry blossom of the tree which has been keeping me for one-third of a century safe.” — Nobody Nose

129. “Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.” — Luther Burbank

130. “If I want to grow and blossom as any tree would, I have to start by knowing my roots and understand how I came to be the tree I am. Learn your ancestry.” — Jeffrey G. Duarte

131. “Only in dreams of spring shall I ever see again the flowering of my cherry trees.” — Frances Hodgson Burnett

132. “And meanwhile, meanwhile’s far from nothing: the humming moment, the rustle of cherry trees.” — Rachel Wetzsteon

134. “We celebrate the cherry tree not for its efficiency but for its effectiveness – and for its beauty. Its materials are in constant flow, and all those thousands of useless cherry blossoms look gorgeous. Then they fall to the ground and become soil again, so there’s no problem.” — William McDonough

135. “Suddenly she was seeing the buds on the cherry trees around her; she could feel the energy-packed within them, a bouquet of fireworks whose fuse had already been lit. She could smell them, too, the subtle essence of pink and lollipops, the sweetness deepened by the scent of the slowly warming earth below them.” — Erica Bauermeister

136. “Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.” — Yoshida Kenko

137. “The cherry blossom season was over, but two of His Excellency’s trees must have consented to wait, for they were in late and glorious bloom.” — Murasaki Shikibu

138. “Flowers whisper ‘Beauty!’ to the world, even as they fade, wilt, fall.” — Dr. SunWolf

139. “I’ve been waiting for you all winter.”

140. “From heaven, it descends like, sakura petals drop.” — Issa Kobayachi

141. “Sad bright eyes Are cherry blossoms Your true love Will never wake up. “ — Communique

142. “I’ll be like Sakura Tree branching out to touch everybody’s soul and their inner sense of beauty.” — Haruhi

143. “Cherry blossom cherry blossom it’s the air that we breathe.”

144. “When you bloom like a blossom, you must help other flower buds to bloom too.” — Munia Khan

145. “There is much to be said for cherry blossoms, but they seem so flighty. They are so quick to run off and leave you.” — Murasaki Shikibu

146. “Sakura, sakura they fall in the dreams of sleeping beauty.” — Yosa Buson

147. “Flowers don’t tell, they show.” – Stephanie Skeem

148. “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

149. “Cherry blossom I can’t let you go I’m not an expert But I know you’re like gold You pop up Shine bright Then you hit the road.” — Jon Vinyl

150. “Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring.”

151. “Everything blooms in its own time.” — Ken Petti

152. “What a strange thing! To be alive beneath cherry blossoms.” — Kobayashi Issa

153. “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s Party!'” — Robin Williams

154. “If there were no, cherry blossoms, in this world, how much more tranquil our hearts would be in spring.” — Ariwara no Narihira

155. “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 cold.” — Charles Dickens

156. “Learn to spread joy and happiness like Spring Blossoms. Learn to be patient through hardest times. Nature teaches us, blossom arrives at right time. Learn to show resilience while following your purpose. Nothing stays forever.” — Purvi Raniga

157. “Look at the cherry blossoms! Their color and scent fall with them, Are gone forever, Yet mindless, The spring comes again.” — Ikkyu

158. “Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long for the moon while looking on the rain, to lower the blinds and be unaware of the passing of the spring – these are even more deeply moving. Branches about to blossom or gardens strewn with flowers are worthier of our admiration.” — Yoshida Kenkō

159. “Like any great and good country, Japan has a culture of gathering- weddings, holidays, seasonal celebrations- with food at the core. In the fall, harvest celebrations mark the changing of the guard with roasted chestnuts, sweet potatoes, and skewers of grilled gingko nuts. As the cherry blossoms bloom, festive picnics called hanami usher in the spring with elaborate spreads of miso salmon, mountain vegetables, colorful bento, and fresh mochi turned pink with sakura petals.” — Matt Goulding

160. “As long as the sun smiles above us our hopes will always blossom.” — Atalay Aydın

161. “thank you, flower…for showing me how to grow even while being blocked from the sun by the tall redwoods, having to find ways around and through, so my sunshine heart could glow into me, becoming the blossom that is watered and needed, and listened to, and sung to sleep in peaceful, loving arms. thank you for awakening me to my life.” — Bodhi Smith

162. “It may just be because I get homesick, but I have concluded Washington’s cherry blossoms are just plain overrated.” — Newt Gingrich

163. “I don`t want to be shy Can`t stand it anymore I just want to say Hi To the one I love Cherry blossom girl” — Air

164. “From all these trees, in the salads, the soup, everywhere, cherry blossoms fall.” — Matsuo Basho

165. “I want to do with you what the spring does with the cherry trees.” — Pablo Neruda

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