Here are 46 positive May Quotes to inspire and uplift your mood and energy.
There’s something about May.
It’s the cusp between spring and summer.
The perfect crisp—not too hot, not too cold, just right.
Most flowers are in full bloom, the sky is a little bluer, and the sun is up for a little longer, giving us that touch of summer love.
It’s the kind of month that doesn’t ask much of us—just to notice, observe and enjoy. A quiet reminder to us all that slowing down is beautiful and a progress to embrace.
Whether you’re looking for gentle inspiration, a journal prompt, or a quote that simply makes you pause and smile, you’ve come to the right place.
Let’s all ease into May with presence, softness, and maybe a little iced coffee.
46 May Quotes
“May is the month of expectation, the month of wishes, the month of hope.” — Emily Brontë
“Horticulturally, the month of May is opening night, homecoming, and graduation day all rolled into one.” — Tam Mossman
“Another May, new buds and flowers shall bring. Ah! Why has happiness no second spring?” — Charlotte Smith
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” — Edwin Way Teale
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” — Fennel Hudson
“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” — William Shakespeare
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” — Alice Munro
“May is the perfect time to take a breath of fresh air and enjoy the beauty of spring.” — Debasish Mridha
“May is a bridge between winter and summer.” — Terri Guillemets
“May, queen of blossoms, and fulfilling flowers, what pretty music shall we charm the hours?” — Lord Edward Thurlow
“The month of May is the gateway to summer.” — Jean Hersey
“Spring is when life’s alive in everything.” — Christina Rossetti
“May, the month of sunshine, blooming flowers, and endless possibilities.” — Unknown
“May is the month of beauty, where we can appreciate the world around us.” — Unknown
“Spring adds new life and new beauty to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson
“May is the month of rebirth and renewal.” — Unknown
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.” — Thomas Tusser
“May is green and pink and red.” — Richard L. Ratliff
“Queer things happen in the garden in May. Little faces forgotten to appear, and plants thought to be dead suddenly wave a green hand to confound you.” — Elizabeth von Arnim
“O, the month of May, the merry month of May. So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green!” — Thomas D’Urfey
“May the month of May be a month of sunshine, happiness, and endless blessings.” — Unknown
“May is the time when the flowers bloom, the birds sing, and the world awakens from its winter slumber.” — Unknown
“Among the changing months, May stands confest The sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” — Edmund Spenser
“Cheers to May! Let’s make this month so good that April gets jealous.” — Unknown
“May, sweet May, again is come. May that mother be of all flowers.” — Guillaume de Machaut
“Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest, and in fairest colors dressed.” — James Thomson
“The month of May has come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” — Thomas Malory
“My heart is light with May! The sky is soft; the coming birds Are silent on their way.” — Mary Mapes Dodge
“May: the lilacs are blooming. Perfume so strong it drowns out everything else.” — Amy Lowell
“Then you have to remember to be thankful; but in May one simply can’t help being thankful that they are alive, if for nothing else.” — L. M. Montgomery
“May is the month when nature is reborn, and everything is possible.” — Unknown
“May is a month of rebirth, of renewed vitality and energy.” — Lailah Gifty Akita
“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
“I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.” — Vera Brittain
“Ah, in those earliest days of love how naturally the kisses spring into life! So closely, in their profusion, do they crowd together that lovers would find it as hard to count the kisses exchanged in an hour as to count the flowers in a meadow in May.” — Marcel Proust
“Sweet May hath come to love us, flowers, trees, their blossoms don; and through the blue heavens above us, the very clouds move on.” — Heinrich Heine
“May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year. Along the eastern corridors, she walks. What time the clover rocks the earliest bee. Her feet are flush with sunrise, and her veil floating in breezy odors o’er her hair.” — Thomas Buchanan Read
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk — honey-sweet May, when the birds come back, and the flowers come out, and the air is full of the sunrise scents and songs of the dawning year.” — Samuel Scoville Jr.
“What potent blood hath modest May.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“In the marvelous month of May, when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise.” — Heinrich Heine
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with promise and filled with beauty.” — Fennel Hudson
“In May, the world blooms like a freshly-written poem.” — Emily Dickinson
“It was the month of May and there was magic in the air.” — Maeve Binchy
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.” — William Shakespeare
“The promise of May is the joy of renewal, a time when nature paints with its brightest colors.” — John Burroughs
Happy May
Wherever May finds you, busy, blooming, or somewhere in between, I hope these words bring a little light to your day.
Here’s to quiet growth, small joys, and soaking in the season while it lasts. Happy May!
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