88 Short May Quotes That Bloom with Positivity
“You are enough just as you are.”
I searched for “May quotes” and, not surprisingly, most of what popped up were flowery lines about spring and sunshine.
Sure, May is beautiful, but it’s also a time of transition.
Yes, things are blooming, but growth isn’t always easy or graceful.
These quotes reflect that mix of warmth and change—hopeful, honest, and a little poetic.
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“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” – Karen Joy Fowler
“May, more than any other month of the year, wants us to feel most alive.” – Fennel Hudson
“Another May new buds and flowers shall bring: Ah! why has happiness no second Spring?” – Charlotte Smith
“Let all thy joys be as the month of May, And all thy days be as a marriage day.” – Francis Quarles
“The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.” – Thomas Malory
“The world’s favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May.” – Edwin Way Teale
“I thought that spring must last forevermore; For I was young and loved, and it was May.” – Vera Brittain
“A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May.” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.” – William Shakespeare
“May: the lilacs are in bloom. Forget yourself.” – Marty Rubin
“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
“And after winter folweth grene May.” – Geoffrey Chaucer
“I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.” – Kiera Cass
“This sweet and merry month of May, while nature wantons in her prime.” – William Byrd
“The month of may is the gateway to summer.” – Jean Hersey
“Make hay in May for you may never know what June is coming with and you may never know what July will present! When you see May, make hay!” – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“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
“I’m only wishing to go a-fishing;For this the month of May was made.” – Henry Van Dyke
“You are as welcome as the flowers in May.” – Charles Macklin
“‘Tis a month before the month of May, And the spring comes slowly up this way.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“In the marvellous month of May when all the buds were bursting, then in my heart did love arise. In the marvellous month of May when all the birds were singing, then did I reveal to her my yearning and longing.” – Heinrich Heine
“Mornings in May, echoed with the call of cuckoos, sunlight glowed through fresh green canopies of trees.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“Where shall we keep the holiday and duly greet the entering May?” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“What potent blood hath modest May.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“ Flowers bud, the sun shines, and new seeds are sewn into the fabric of our lives. May is awesome.” – Jenna Danchuk
“At last came the golden month of the wild folk honey-sweet May.” – Samuel Scoville
“May had now set in, but up here among the hills, she was May by curtesy only.” – George MacDonald
“May has decked the world, the lovely meadow gifts of May.” – Annette Wynne
“Queer things happen in the garden in May.” – William Earl Johns
“It is now May. It is the month wherein nature hath her fill of mirth and the senses are filled with delights.” – Nicholas Breton
“Bright May afternoons, mango trees in the garden echoed with cuckoo calls.” – Meeta Ahluwalia
“First night of May and the soft-silvered moon frightens her semicircle in the blue.” – David Gray
“Along with the greening of May came the rain.” – Victoria Abbott Riccardi
“Yes, May is come, and its sweet breath shall well-nigh make you weep today.” – William Morris
“Month of May, everybody’s in love.” – Win Butler
“Among the changing months, May stands confest the sweetest.” – James Thomson
“The star that led the dawn, blithe flora from her couch upstarts, for May is on the lawn.” – William Wordsworth
“The last days of May are among the longest of the year.” – Alice Munro
“When April steps aside for May.” – Lucy Larcom
“Pensive with swift-coming death, shall ye be satiate of the May.”
“May has come in, young May the beautiful, weaving the sweetest chaplet of the year.” – Thomas Buchanan Read
“Ah! My heart is weary, waiting, waiting for the May.” – Denis Florence MacCarthy
“End of May and now you’re gone, and there’s still bills to pay.” – Timothy Paul Seely
“Rose of May, the sun that you are waiting for spring has come!” – Irene Doura-Kavadia
“And the May month flaps its glad green leaves like wings, / Delicate-filmed as new-spun silk.” – Thomas Hardy
“May is the most beautiful month of the year, a month alive with warmth color.The flowers and trees are in full bloom and even the sun joins this rhapsody be emitting warmer rays.” – Lillian Berliner
“By May, most of the harsness of winter has passed. The sky is bright, and warm sunshine filters through the new leaves on the trees.” – Ellen Jackson
“May can be a month of sneezing, itchy eyes, and runny noses.” – Ellen Jackson
“May means long walks in the evenings, eating outside in the garden(whenever possible) and lots of healthy, fresh salads to use up all the lovely summer veg that’s available.” – Sophie Morris
“May day is a great time to plan or put on a Spring Festival for parents. Students can sing their favorite songs, recite poems and perform the Maypole dance.” – Elizabeth Cole Midgley
“May on the contrary belongs to the Easter season, which lasts fifty days, and in that season the whole of May commonly falls, and the first half always.” – Cardinal John Henry Newman1
“Therefore all ye that be lovers call unto your remembrance the month of May, like as did Queen Guenevere, for whom I make here a little mention, that while she lived she was a true lover, and therefore she had a good end.” – Le Morte D’ Arthur
“In the month of May fell many great showers of rain.” – Robin Robbins
“It was outdoor detail – and May is one fine month to be working outdoors.” – Stephen King
“Hebe’s here, May is here! The air is fresh and sunny, and the miser-bees are busy hoarding golden honey.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“Lines of baled hay / Yellowing in the sunshine / Dry May day.” – Mike Garofalo
“The flowry May, who from her green lap, throws the yellow cowslip and the pale primrose.” – John Milton
“Beneath the apple blossoms/ I go a wintry way, / For love that smiled in April / Is false to me in May.” – Sara Teasdale
“May and June. Soft syllables, gentle names for the two best months in the garden year: cool, misty mornings gently burned away with a warming spring sun, followed by breezy afternoons and chilly nights. The discussion of philosophy is over; it’s time for work to begin.” – Peter Loewer
“When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month on in the middle of May.” – Robert Frost
“The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May.” – Sir Thomas Malory
“What is so sweet and dear / As a prosperous morn in May, / The confident prime of the day” – William Watson
“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
“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. / I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.” – Robert Herrick
“May! Queen of blossoms, / And fulfilling flowers, / With what pretty music / Shall we charm the hours?” – Lord Edward Thurlow
“Winds of May, that dance on the sea, / Dancing a ring-around in glee / From furrow to furrow, while overhead The foam flies up to be garlanded.” – James Joyce
“In the marvelous month of May / when all the birds were singing, / then did I reveal to her / my yearning and longing.” – Henirich Heine
“It’s May, the lusty month of May / That darling month when everyone throws self-control away.” – Alan Jay Lerner
“Step aside to a brand new day, in the month of May I feel, I can start again. Life is feeling new, This is hope, this is love, this is where we all won, if you call, I will hear, I will listen for you.” – Mychal Simka
“The month of May comes differently in cities: not for us white blossom on the hedgerows, bluebells in the woods – instead the sun’s rays burnish bricks and mellow pavements; seeds burst into flower in the cracks between the stones; speedwell and bindweed bloom among the rubble.” – Heidi Thomas
“O The month of May, the merry month of May, / So frolic, so gay, and so green, so green, so green! / O, and then did I unto my true love say, / Sweet Peg, thou shalt be my Summer’s Queen” – Thomas Dekker
“Oh! gladly do we welcome thee, / Fair pleasant month of May; / Month which we’ve eager longed to see, / Through many a wintry day.” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“Nor yet because fair flowers are springing / Beneath thy genial ray; / And thousand happy birds are singing / All welcome to thee, May!” – Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon
“It is the month, the jolly month, / It is the jolly month of May.” – Francis Thompson
“That I may reach that happy time / The kindly gods I pray, / For are not ducks and pease in prime / Upon the last of May?” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“There is but one May in the year, / And sometimes May is wet and cold; / There is but one May in the year / Before the year grows old.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“Yet though it be the chilliest May, / With least of sun and most of showers, / ts wind and dew, its night and day, / Bring up the flowers.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“The flowers that should bloom in the month of May / Every one of them came on an April day! / And they looked for April showers in vain, / But all through May it did nothing but rain!” – Carolyn Well
“Oh, it was a merry, gladsome day, / When the April Fool met the Queen of May; / She had roguish eyes and golden hair, / And they were a mischief-making pair.” – Carolyn Wells
“Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, / And summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” – William Shakespeare
“Welcome, O May! O joyous month and stainless!” – Alfonso X El Sabio
“Oh to have you in May, / To talk with you under the trees, / Dreaming throughout the day, / Drinking the wine-like breeze,” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Oh it were sweet to think / That May should be ours again, / Hoping it not, I shrink, / Out of the sight of men.” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
“I cannot tell you how it was, / But this I know: it came to pass / Upon a bright and sunny day / When May was young; ah, pleasant May!” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“I cannot tell you what it was, / But this I know: it did but pass. / It passed away with sunny May, / Like all sweet things it passed away, / And left me old, and cold, and gray.” – Christina Georgina Rossetti
“Will you go a-maying, a-maying, a-maying, / Come and be my Queen of May and pluck the may with me?” – Edith Nesbit
“If I go with you, if I go a-maying, / To be your Queen and wear my crown this May-day bright, / Hand in hand straying, it must be only playing, / And playtime ends at sunset, and then good-night.” – Edith Nesbit
“May is Mary’s month, and I / Muse at that and wonder why: / Her feasts follow reason, / Dated due to season—” – Gerard Manley Hopkins
