41 Cheerful Yellow Quotes to Light Up Your Day
Bright, cheerful, and full of energy—yellow is the color of sunshine, happiness, and positivity.
That’s why we’ve gathered all the best yellow quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for inspiring or fun sayings about this vibrant color, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Short Aesthetic Yellow Quotes
“I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” – Conor Oberst
“In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white, yellow shouts: ‘Look at me. I’m happy!'” – Joy Sewing
“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” – L. Frank Baum
“I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown tie.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“Hope my yellow dress brightens up your day.” – Shilpa Ahuja
“Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring.” – Richard L. Ratliff
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Into the field of yellow flowers the red setting sun!” – Soseki Natsume
“Silence isn’t golden. It’s yellow.” – Zell Miller
“Yellow makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.” – Anthony T. Hincks
“Yellow makes me happy when I’m blue.” – Shilpa Ahuja
“I’ve always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.” – Florentijn Hofman
“Yellow is the colour which is closest to light. We associate the rays of the sun and the stars with it. It is the radiance of the spirit.” – Ueli Seiler-Hugova
“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso
“Yellow is a small wheel of cheddar cheese. Permeating a musty odor out of the bakers shop. Yellow is a thousand paper cranes, floating down a slow, mellow river. Yellow is the round circle of moon, the light that stays through the coldest night.” – Anisha Datta
“White is too brilliant to be seen, so yellow is its filter, its costume, revealing that pure light has not only brightness but emotional resonance and depth.” – Richard Grossinger
“The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens. Flowering over the skin.” – Wallace Stevens
“The yellow is unsteady. The more I try to capture what it’s like now, the less steady it seems. But it’s still there, and yellow all right. Perhaps I am trying too hard, and chasing the yellow away.” – Susan Blackmore
“Yellow is the color of the east, childhood, and morning.” – Jeffrey D. Anderson
“Yellow is the warmest and most ardent of colors, like the sun at its zenith, the Golden Light, the path of communication between men and gods. Of divine essence, golden yellow on Earth is characteristic of the powers of princes, kings, and emperors, who thereby proclaim the divine origin of their power.” – Jean-Philippe Lenclos & Dominique Lenclos
“There’s something very freeing about yellow. When you wear yellow you just have to go for it.” – Mobolaji Dawodu
“How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Yellow is capable of charming God.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulphur yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!” – Vincent Van Gogh
“Yellow usually means it’s not that serious.” – Bobby Unser
“Yellow is not an in-between color, you’re either all in or you’re not.” – Mobolaji Dawodu
“Yellow is a color that helps us remember the past. Think of all the things we Westerners associate with the color yellow: our phone book’s yellow pages, the yellow school bus, and yellow legal pads. Yellow is the color of history, memory and learning. It represents friendship and mutual respect. Sunny yellow comes in a multitude of shades, ones we can use to bring light into our lives.” – Feng Shui Form
“It is the color closest to light. In its utmost purity it always implies the nature of brightness and has a cheerful, serene, gently stimulating character. Hence, experience teaches us that yellow makes a thoroughly warm and comforting impression.” – Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.” – Alexander Theroux
“Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you’re real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids. The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable. They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good. So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can’t live. The gray kills me.” – Rosie O’Donnell
“It was all glimmer and warm honey in the yellow light.” – Patrick Rothfuss
“Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.” – Aristotle
“You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. … If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.” – Philippe Starck
“Yellow is also an amazing attention-getter, which is why you can see McDonald’s signs from so far away. Not to mention, it stands out more than any other color during daylight hours.” – Redi Mene
“The colors red, blue and green are real. The color yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.” – Tom Stoppard
“What a horrible thing yellow is.” – Edgar Degas
“Life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.” – Billy Collins
“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” – Randall Jarrell
“A yellow ripe banana, yellow outside and squishy in.” – Margaret Halsey
“Be like curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what’s there.” – James Collins
“The big yellow one is the sun!” – Brian Regan
