71 Photo Dump Quotes for Instagram
Photo dumps are the best kind of posts.
No theme. No perfect aesthetic. Just a bunch of random moments that somehow tell your story.
But finding the right caption? That’s the hard part. You don’t want something too deep or too basic.
You just need something that fits the vibe. Something casual that lets the photos speak for themselves.
These photo dump quotes are exactly that. Simple captions for all your unfiltered moments.
Short Photo Dump Quotes

“Memory is the diary we all carry with us.” — Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is a waste that makes a memory.” — Ned Rorem
“A photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.” — Ambrose Bierce
“One advantage of photography is that it’s visual and can transcend language.” — Lisa Kristine
“The earth is art, the photographer is only a witness.” — Yann Arthus Bertrand
“A photograph is like a recipe, the memory is the finished dish.” — Carrie Latet
“In photography, there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.” — Alfred Stieglitz
“When you photograph a face… you photograph the soul behind it.” — Jean Luc Godard
“What’s indisputable is that we tend to remember flagship moments, the peaks, the pits, and the transitions.” — Chip & Dan Heath
“Oh, if life were made of moments… Then you’d never know you had one.” — Stephen Sondheim
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” — Haruki Murakami
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” — Lois Lowry
“Life offers up these moments of joy despite everything.” — Sally Rooney
“Capture the moments before they slip away.” — Anonymous
“Snapshots of today are the stories of tomorrow.” — Anonymous
“Photos are the closest thing to time travel.” — Anonymous
“Each click holds a story that words can’t tell.” — Anonymous
“A picture is a moment that never fades.” — Anonymous
“The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” — Dorothea Lange
“Photography is truth. And cinema is truth twenty four times a second.” — Jean Luc Godard
“If it makes you laugh, if it makes you cry, if it rips out your heart, that’s a good picture.” — Eddie Adams
“Our moments are composed of light and shadow.” — Anonymous
“In the end, what matters are the pieces you put together from your camera roll of life.” — Anonymous
“Memories are captured, not created.” — Anonymous
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.” — Maya Angelou (attributed)
“Take a picture. It’ll last longer.” — Anonymous
“Every picture tells a story, a memory trapped in time.” — Anonymous
“Moments are the currency of memories.” — Anonymous
“Little snapshots create big stories.” — Anonymous
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.” — L.M. Montgomery
“We do not remember days, we remember moments.” — Cesare Pavese
“The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise.” — Ashley Montagu
“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius
“The simple things are also the most extraordinary.” — Paulo Coelho
“Happiness is not a goal. It is the by product of a life well lived.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
“Life is a succession of moments.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Joy is not in things. It is in us.” — Richard Wagner
“Collect moments, not things.” — Anonymous
“Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.” — Charles Dickens
“The best thing about memories is making them.” — Anonymous
“Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
“Every day is a new beginning.” — Rumi
“The world is full of magic things.” — W.B. Yeats
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. It’s about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Happiness is a warm puppy.” — Charles M. Schulz
“Where there is love there is life.” — Mahatma Gandhi
“The little moments? They aren’t little.” — Jon Kabat Zinn
“To live is the rarest thing in the world.” — Oscar Wilde
“Life must be lived as play.” — Plato
“Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it.” — Confucius
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” — Oscar Wilde
“Where there is joy, there is creation.” — Henri Bergson
“The earth laughs in flowers.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy.” — Marcel Proust
“You are your best thing.” — Toni Morrison
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” — Helen Keller
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Light tomorrow with today.” — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.” — Coco Chanel
“Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.” — Coco Chanel
“If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.” — Katharine Hepburn
“Everything you can imagine is real.” — Pablo Picasso
“What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.” — Ralph Marston
“Life is short. Smile while you still have teeth.” — Anonymous
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.” — Aristotle
“Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.” — T.S. Eliot
“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” — Arthur Rubinstein
“The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.” — Richard Bach
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