Roaring and powerful, yet serene and calming, waterfalls are one of nature’s most magical creations. Their beauty can often take your breath away, so I’ve collected all the best waterfall quotes in one place, so you can easily describe the feeling of awe you get standing in front of the most magnificent falls. Waterfalls come in every shape and size and some of my all time favourites have to be Kuang Si waterfalls in Laos, Düden Waterfalls in Antalya, Busay falls in the Philippines, Three Shires Head in the Peak District and the awe-inspiring Iguazu falls in South America. So save this list of quotes about waterfalls for the next time you’re out chasing waterfalls and need the perfect quote to share the experience with your friends, family and Instagram followers.
Short Waterfall Captions for Instagram
- “Go with the flow.” – Unknown
- “Chasing waterfalls” – Unknown
- “Happiness comes in rushes.”– Unknown
- “I am like a waterfall – wild and free.” – Unknown
- “Like a river life doesn’t flow backward” – Unknown
- “Always on the move.” – Unknown
Best Waterfall Quote
- “Home is where the water is.” – Unknown
- “When it rains, it pours.” – Unknown
- “Water your roots so your soul can blossom” – Unknown
- “It’s all water over the falls.” – Unknown
- “Paradise found.” – Unknown
Waterfall Quote One Liners
- “Wild like me.” – Unknown
- “The water is calling and I must go.” – Unknown
- “When water falls, it flies.” – Unknown
- “Let this waterfall wash over me.” – Unknown
- “Water is the cure to everything” – Unknown
- “Wild, beautiful, and free.” – Unknown
Funny Waterfall Quotes for Instagram and Waterfall Puns
- “Water you looking at?” – Unknown
- “I would caption this with a waterfall pun but thats too mainstream” – Unknown
- “Falling in love with this place”– Unknown
- “I really have to get my plumbing fixed.”– Unknown
- “It’s all downhill from here.”– Unknown
Quotes on Waterfall
- “You don’t always get the waterfall shortcut in Mario Kart. That’s life.” – Jack Barakat
- “Tripping on skies, sipping on waterfalls.”– Unknown
- “Water you doing today?”– Unknown
- “I am gushing with joy.”– Unknown
- “You are mist!”– Unknown
Funny Waterfalls Quotes for Instagram
- “Watery waiting for? Lets go already”– Unknown
- “Aquaholic”– Unknown
- “Nature’s shower.”– Unknown
- “Good to the last drop.”– Unknown
- “Canoe + waterfall = I don’t go camping anymore.” – Demetri Martin
Waterfall Love Quotes
- “I’m falling for you.” – Unknown
- “Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.” – Ellen DeGeneres
Waterfall Instagram Captions for Love
- “Kiss me under a waterfall.” – Unknown
- “Your love is like a waterfall, running wild and free.” –Chris Tomlin
- “All anyone can hope for 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.” – Unknown
Nature Quotes about Falls
- “The waterfall is nature’s laughter.” – Unknown
- “Nature’s water slide.” – Unknown
- “Water is the driving force of all nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci
- “Not every paradise is tropical.” – Unknown
- “Nature never goes out of style.” – Unknown
- “There is a waterfall in every dream.” – Unknown
- “Water is the perfect traveler because when it travels, it becomes the path itself!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Quotes About Falls Nature
- “Look with open eyes, and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.” – Anthony Hincks
- “Mist to mist drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.” – Kamand Kojouri
- “I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”- Unknown
- “Where water is the boss and the land must obey.” – Unknown
- “Get lost in nature and you will find yourself.” – Unknown
Wise Sayings about Waterfalls
- “Great things are over every fall and around every bend.”– Unknown
- “A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!”– Unknown
- “Look for tomorrow behind every waterfall.” – Unknown
- “A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks.”– Unknown
- “There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “Life is like a waterfall. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it.” – Unknown
Powerful Waterfall Quotes Instagram
- “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 being older.” – Unknown
- “There’s no better place to find yourself that sitting by a waterfall and listening to it’s music.” – Roland R Kemler
- “Valuable lessons can be learned from every waterfall.” – Unknown
- “Falling down is a way of life, getting back up is living”– Unknown
- “Life is like a waterfall – in the end, we’re all one.” – Unknown
- “Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.” –Vanessa Hunt
Instagram Captions About Waterfalls
- “Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.” –Bob Ross
- “A strong person and a waterfall always carve their own path” – Unknown
- “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.”– Unknown
- “Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness!”– Unknown
- “As long as I live, I’ll hear waterfalls and birds and winds sing.”- John Muir
Waterfalls Captions for Instagram
- “While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in the nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
- “I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.”- Mike May
- “By the time we arrived, as evening was approaching, I felt as sore as a rock must feel when the waterfall has pounded on it all day long.”– Unknown
- “She’ll carry on through it all. She’s a waterfall.” – Unknown
- “I can see my rainbow calling me through the misty breeze of my waterfall.” – Jimi Hendrix
Quotes About Waterfalls
- “Grace be the waterfall in the wild of my mind.” – Unknown
- “A river that forgets its source will surely dry up.” – Yoruba Proverb
- “Look for yourself in the waterfall – still for just a moment before moving on again.” – Unknown
- “Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of waterfall.” –Anthony Hincks
Falls Captions for Instagram
- “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
- “Our lives flow like water in a waterfall.” – Unknown
- “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness
- “The waterfall winks at every passerby.” – Marty Rubin
- “When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
Captions for Waterfall Pics
81. “Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls.”– Munia Khan
82. “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
83. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.” – Bruce Lee
84. “The Warrior knows about the “waterfall effect”. – Paulo Coelho
85. “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
Captions for Waterfalls
86. “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.”
87. “Run wild and free like a waterfall” ― Anamika Mishra
88. “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
89. “I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.” – Tahereh Mafi
Instagram Captions for Waterfalls
90. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.” – Vernon Howard
91. “Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea.” – Mikhail Lermontov
92. “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 space and its countless stars.” – Benjamin F Sullivan
93. “A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkin
94. “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
Quotes on Waterfalls
95. “There’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.” – Julie Andrews
96. “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
97. “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
98. “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
99. “With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.” – Mary Pipher
Waterfalls Caption
100. “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
101. “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
102. “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.” – Hedley Lamarr
103. “Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near.”
104. “Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides.” – Victoria Kahler
Chasing Waterfalls Quotes
105. “Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall.” – Sheng-yen
106. “Be careful crossing above the waterfall, it’s a fatal spot.” – Karl Meltzer
107. “Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.” – Rishabh Gautam
108. “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
109. “Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.” – Kimberly McCreight
110. “The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together.”
111. “We start in different places, but in the end, we all meet at the waterfall.”
Caption for Waterfall
112. “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
113. “All anyone can hope for 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
114. “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
115. “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
116. “Water is the driver of nature.” – Leonardo da Vinci
That’s over 115 Falls Quotes for Instagram
I hope you’ve managed to find the perfect waterfall quote, I’d love to know which one is your favourite, and if I’ve missed any great quotes about waterfalls then please let me know in the comments below.
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Thanks for sharing these inspiring waterfall quotes! Such a great collection, can’t wait to use them on my next falls quotes instagram post
Glad to hear that
Ah, such amazing beauty! The words match the vibe that waterfalls bring.
They are a such a beautiful part of nature
I love this! The waterfall pun quotes are my favourite!
Mine too, I love a good pun
This is such a great collection of quotes! <3 Waterfalls are legit one of my favorite things to see on my hikes!
I love hiking to waterfalls too, did a beautiful waterfall hike in Madeira
I love waterfalls, never realized there was so many quotes about it! The funny waterfall quotes are my fav 😛
I love the funny ones too