We’re always looking for the most beautiful waterfalls around the world. Whether it’s the tropical stunners in the Philippines or the pine forested wild ones in Oregon, we never grow tired of seeing these beautiful natural wonders. It’s hard to not look up at a waterfall and feel inspired, the power and the beauty always leave us mesmerised.

So to pay tribute to these natural wonders, we’ve put together some of our favourite quotes about waterfalls to inspire your next trip or help you out with a caption for your that perfect Instagram photo.

85 of the most inspirational waterfall quotes

1. “There's no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music”

― Roland R Kemler

2. "Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.”

- Rishabh Gautam

3. “Water is the driver of nature.”

- Leonardo Da Vinci

4. “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”

- Mikhail Lermontov

5. “Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself!”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

6. “You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles. You carry within you the power to make the world better.”

- Sharon G. Larsen

7. “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing. I’ll interpret the rocks, learn the language of flood, storm, and the avalanche. I’ll acquaint myself with the glaciers and wild gardens, and get as near the heart of the world as I can.”

– John Muir

8. “There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you.”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

9. “Your love is like a waterfall, running wild and free."

- Chris Tomlin

10. “A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks.”

― Mehmet Murat Ildan

11. “Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.”

– Bob Ross

12. “Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick.”

- J. R. R. Tolkien

13. “Adopt the pace of nature.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

14. "There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall."

- Patrick Ness

15. “For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.”

– Salman Rushdie

16. “I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

- Anne Frank

17. “Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.”

– Victoria Kahler

18. “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.”

- Vanessa Hunt

19. “When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!”

– Mehmet Murat Ildan

20. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.”

– Nicholas Sparks

21. “Run wild and free like a waterfall”

― Anamika Mishra

22. “There is a waterfall in every dream. Cool and crystal clear, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul.”

- Virginia Alison

23. “A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence.”

– Jim Watkins

24. “Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls.”

– Munia Khan

25. “A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom! When they speak, the voice of power speaks!”

― Mehmet Murat ildan

26. “I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.”

– Tahereh Mafi

27. “A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.”

– Vernon Howard

28. “Look with open eyes, and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.”

– Anthony Hincks

29. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”

- Jawaharlal Nehru

30. “The point is that when I see a sunset or a waterfall or something, for a split second it's so great, because for a little bit I'm out of my brain, and it's got nothing to do with me.”

- Chris Evans

31. “Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.”

- Sheng-yen

32. “I can see my rainbow calling me through the misty breeze of my waterfall."

-Jimi Hendrix

33. “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.”

– Mel Brooks

34. “I shift an infinitesimal movement towards him. It is like the leap from a waterfall. I do not know, until then, what I am going to do.”

– Madeline Miller

35. “I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”

- Mike May

36. “My desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.”

— Kiersten White

37. “Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.”

– Kimberly McCreight

38. “Once we have tasted far streams, touched the gold, found some limit beyond the waterfall, a season changes, and we come back changed but safe, quiet, grateful.”

– William Stafford

39. “We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth.”

– Albert Pike

40. “All anyone can hope is just a tiny bit of love, like a drop in a cup if you can get it, or a waterfall, a flood, if you can get that too.”

– Edwidge Danticat

41. ‘Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.’

– Jon Kabat-Zinn

42. “Mist to mist drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.”

– Kamand Kojouri

43. “The waterfall winks at every passerby.”

– Marty Rubin

44. “Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?” That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”

– Hermann Hesse

45. “Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near.”

– Yosa Buson

46. “It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. It was much, much more he knew. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for.”

― Michael Delaware

47. “The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.”

– Marilyn Johnson

48. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”

– Bruce Lee

49. “Above them, a waterfall tumbled from a clifftop as high as a church steeple. The water fell in milky blue strands, shooting spray in the air that danced in rainbows of gold, pink, and blue.”

― Martine Bailey

50. “Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.”

– Friedrich Nietzsche

51. “And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph.”

– Ray Bradbury

52. “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”

– Margaret Atwood

53. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.”

– Norman McLean

54. “They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water.”

– Jonathan Safran Foer

55. “To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again.”

– Gretel Ehrlich

56. “She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.”

– Virginia Woolf

57. “I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.”

— María Virginia Farinango

58. “Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.”

– Annie Dillard

59. “We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea.”

– T. S. Eliot

60. “There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.”

– Agnes Martin

61. “The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are imagined only that content us.”

– Henry David Thoreau

62. “I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows.”

– Paulo Coelho

63. “When you are outpouring your emotion, it is like me trying to climb up a waterfall. To get to you. But if you are calm and have faith in me, I can sail right over to you. On the still waters of your soul.”

- Kate McGahan

64. “When I was walking in the mountains with the Japanese man and began to hear the water, he said, ‘What is the sound of the waterfall?’ ‘Silence,’ he finally told me.”

― Jack Gilbert

65. “Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters.”

- Norman Maclean

66. ‘We say that life is sweet, its satisfactions deep. All this we say, as we sleepwalk our time through years of days and nights. We let time cascade over us like a waterfall, believing it to be never-ending. Yet each day that touches us, and every man in the world is unique; irredeemable; over. And just another Monday.’

– Josephine Hart

67. “God is discovered entirely through creation - the brilliance of a sunset, the powerful roar of a waterfall, the symphony of sounds you hear in the heart of the forest, or the vastness of spaces and its countless stars”

– Benjamin F Sullivan

68. “No one ever steps into the same river twice.”

- Heraclitus

69. “Be careful crossing the waterfall, it’s a fatal spot.”

- Karl Meltzer

70. “The ordinary-sized stuff which is our lives, the things people write poetry about - clouds, daffodils, waterfalls, what happens in a cup of coffee when the cream goes in - these things are full of mystery, as mysterious to us as the heavens were to the Greeks.”

- Tom Stoppard

71. “When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love bring older.”

- Sigourney Weaver

72. “In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person’s yard.”

- Demetri Martin

73. “Canoe + Waterfall = I don’t go camping anymore.”

- Demetri Martin

74. “Be water, my friend.”

- Bruce Lee

75. “I keep my gratitude in my smile, a glistening waterfall in the sun”

-Sanober Khan

76. “We made our way to the very edge of the cliff and looked down. We could hear the water dashing, splashing, and roaring as if angry at the small space through which it was forced to pass.”

– Sallie Hester

77. “But for the briefest moment, the blue of Zoe’s pool gave way to deeper, darker aqua-colored water. The few plants and rocks were replaced with a lagoon and a waterfall where several mermaids lounged half in the water, half in the sun. They splashed and dove, their laughter making the same sound as the water.”

–Michelle Cuevas

78. “We would no longer pass sweet breezy days in our sleek tent, in mossy hills and sun, showering in waterfalls. That era was now our memory, a shared dream.”

–Aspen Matis

79. “After we are separated by birth from this oneness, as the water falling from the waterfall is separated by the wind and rocks, then we have feeling. You have difficulty because you have feeling. You attach to the feeling you have without knowing just how this kind of feeling is created.”

–Shunryu Suzuki

80. “With meditation, I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.”

- Mary Pipher

81. “Don’t go to restaurants that have waterfalls if you have a kidney condition.”

-Johnny Carson

82. “There’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls, tumbling, gushing.”

- Julie Andrews

83. “And listen to the faucets, like the rush of a waterfall heard through thick woods just as the birds began to sing early one morning years ago in the hills outside Florence.”

- Kevin Prufer

84. “You don’t always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That’s life.”

– Jack Barakat

85. “As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.”

– Abbi Glines

86. “Tell your dream to the waterfall.”

- Sellâle

87. “When water falls, it flies.”

- Anthony T. Hincks

88. “The water tells none of its secrets.”

- Nikos Engonopoulos

89. “I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.”

- Guillermo del Toro

90. “Something’s going down like a waterfall, some strong feeling’s some old love.”

- Carly Simon

91. “The fall of your hair is rushing through my head like elegant waterfalls repeatedly dancing down into an open riverbed.”

- Curtis Tyrone Jones

92. “The river plunged down in a long waterfall, plashing into several rocky pools on its way down the cliff.”

- Alison Croggon

93. “Not a hundred feet away the river roared over a cliff’s-edge, and we weren’t really leaves, even if I’d been careful to forget that.”

- Naomi Novik

94. “Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life.”

- Kahlil Gibran

95. “They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water.”

- Jonathan Foer

96. “They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.”

- Hermann Hesse

97. “Nature is painting for us, day after day, pictures of infinite beauty if only we have the eyes to see them.”

- John Ruskin

98. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

- John Ruskin

99. “If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

- Loren Eiseley

100. “I feel like water that transforms from a flowing river to a tranquil lake to a powerful waterfall to a freshwater spring to a meandering creek to a salty sea to raindrops gentle on your face to hard, stinging hail to frost on a mountaintop, and back to a river again.”

- María Farinango

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