Whether you’re feeling down or just need a dose of inspiration, blue quotes are perfect for a pick-me-up. From famous authors to ancient philosophers, these 200 blue quotes will motivate and uplift you. So take some time to read through them and find out which one speaks the most to you.
Blue Quotes
- “I only write in blue ink.” – Kat Graham
- “Blue eyes wash off sometimes.” – Anne Sexton
- “Don’t turn blue all over now.” – Amish Tripathi
- “Pink is the navy blue of India.” – Diana Vreeland
- “If I don’t have red, I use blue.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Blue was never so beautiful blue.”- Petra Hermans
- “I sell blue sky and coloured air.” – James Turrell
- “One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!” – Dr. Seuss
- “I want to die with my blue jeans on.” – Andy Warhol
- “I don’t remember any blue poodles.” – James Thurber
- “I want to die with my blue jeans on.” – Andy Warhol
- “No water, no life. No blue, no green.” – Sylvia Earle
- “I never get tired of the blue sky.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Blue is the closest color to the truth.” – Steven Tyler
- Then passed right by—and never knew.” – Shel Silverstein
- “I’m a ‘blue sky thinker’ and dream big.” – Hilary Knight
- “I bleed blue, and it’s Colts blue now.” – Adam Vinatieri
- “The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.” – Ryan Stiles
- “I will do water – beautiful, blue water.” – Claude Monet
- “The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue.” – Ryan Stiles
- “Money always ends up making you blue.” – J. D. Salinger,
- “BLUE The only color we can feel.” – Charles Wayland Towne
- “It was called love. Something blue, blue.” – Petra Hermans
- “We are a blue planet and an ocean world.” – Nainoa Thompson
- “His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.” – Dean Koontz
- “How sweet to be a Cloud. Floating in the Blue!” – A. A. Milne
- “If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.” – Paul Gauguin
- “You could drown a kitten in her blue eyes.” – Gary Shteyngart
- “Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” – Marilu Henner.
- “Being a ‘Blue Peter’ presenter is not well paid.” – Konnie Huq
- “Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.” – L. Frank Baum
- “I don’t like red. I like blue. That’s my color.” – Tony Ferguson
- “And everything burned in blue, everything a star.” – Pablo Neruda
- “You’re my North Star when I’m lost and feeling blue.” – Tom Waits
- “It’s hard to see your dad once in a blue moon.” – Michael McIntyre
- “Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue – the sky.” – George Byron Gordon
- “Blue Ivy is a star. She is just a star. I can see.” – Mathew Knowles
- “Occasionally, I’ll wear glitter or blue eye shadow.” – Petra Collins
- “It’s calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.” – Fiona Apple
- “Life is simple, it’s either cherry red or midnight blue.” – Lou Gramm
- “I like blue a lot, and greens. Earthy blues and greens.” – Lee DeWyze
- “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh
- “Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.” – J. D. Salinger
- “David Bowie’s death came out of the blue, as did Prince’s.” – Glenn Danzig
- “Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.” – William Rose Benet
- A cloudless plain blue sky is like a flowerless garden.” – Terri Guillemets
- “I don’t use blue. I don’t like it. It bugs me out. I hate it.” – Kanye West
- “Getting the spot of ‘Blue Peter’ changed the path of my life.” – Konnie Huq
- “Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.” – Diana Vreeland
- “I recommend voting Blue and White, but I respect any decision.” – Benny Gantz
- “My favorite color is blue, and my secret favorite color is pink.” – Paul Dano
- “Blue jeans are the most beautiful things since the gondola.” – Diana Vreeland
- “The sun is up, the sky is blue; It’s beautiful, and so are you.” – John Lennon
- “I wasn’t naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight.” – Gypsy Rose Lee
- “Let the blue sky meet the blue sea and all is blue for a time.” – Moncy Barbour
- “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.” – Oscar Levant
- “I’m a bit of an M&M nut. I like the blue ones. I pick them out.” – Ryan Reynolds
- “The sky slowly pulled up its blue dress to reveal night.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
- “I ripped through the blue shade of the constraints of color.” – Kasimir Malevich
- “Blue skies, smiling at me, Nothing but blue skies, Do I see.” – Ella Fitzgerald,
- “I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china.” – Oscar Wilde
- “When you’re young, the blue blazer feels like a grown-up costume.” – Willie Geist
- “Vince McMahon said alright, we’re going to call you the Blue Blazer.” – Owen Hart
- “Blue is therefore most suitable as the color of interior life.” – William H. Gass
- “My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude.” – Lana Del Rey
- “If you’re feeling blue try painting yourself a different color.” – Hannah Cheatem
- “My first ever interview for ‘Blue Peter’ was a film with JK Rowling.” – Konnie Huq
- “But never have I been a blue calm sea. I have always been a storm.” – Stevie Nicks
- “The look of the sky as the day’s blue blood runs out of its cheek.” – Stephen King
- “Roses are red Violets are blue Everything’s possible Nothing is true.” – Alan Moore
- “Stars are the daisies that begem; The blue fields of the sky.” – David Macbeth Moir
- “Midnight blue is the only color that can ever compete with black.” – Christian Dior
- “The sea! The sea! The open sea! The blue, the fresh, the ever free!” – Bryan Procter
- “Because of the green-eyed one, I see red and that makes me blue.” – Natalya Vorobyova
- “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.” – Carl Sagan
- “And I never saw blue like that before across the sky around the world.” – Shawn Colvin
- “I come to Jerusalem. There, the sky is blue and memory becomes clear.” – Menachem Begin
- “Island of the Blue Dolphins’ by Scott O’Dell had a huge impact on me.” – Kate DiCamillo
- “You can never be lost when you learn to get lost into the blue of the sea.”- Munia Khan
- “Let the blue of the sky and ocean take your blue away when you feel blue.” – Munia Khan
- “Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?” – James Montgomery
- “I spend a lot of my time looking at blue; The color of my room and my mood.” – Kate Bush
- “I like Dolce & Gabbana’s fragrance Light Blue – it’s my everyday perfume.” – Natasha Poly
- “She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid; And so did she. They searched for blue;
- “Two colors are enough, just blue and white—more might be a nightmare.” – Jennifer Kostuik
- “Her blue eyes sought the west afar, For lovers love the western star.” – Sir Walter Scott
- “Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.” – George MacDonald
- “Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came to thy dazzling hue?” – James Montgomery
- “Our motto at Blue Origin is ‘Gradatim Ferociter’: ‘Step by Step, Ferociously.'” – Jeff Bezos
- “Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.” – Rick Perry
- “I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I’m going to the big Dodger in the sky.” – Tommy Lasorda
- “Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.” – John Ruskin
- “The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.” – George Trakl
- “The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.” – Clare Boothe Luce
- “Did you know, I’m still in love with this blue sky until forever and ever, eternally.” – Mika
- “In age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.” – James Turrell
- “I just finished a film with Michael Radford called Dancing at the Blue Iguana.” – Daryl Hannah
- “Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.” – Adolf Hitler
- As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland’s blue sky.” – Liu Yang
- “Blue is the universal love in which man bathes—it is the terrestrial paradise.” – Derek Jarman
- “There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.” – Jean Rhys
- “As a female pilot, the sacred rose garden in my heart is the motherland’s blue sky.” – Liu Yang
- “If the afternoon had been blue, there might have been less desire.” – Carlos Drummond de Andrade
- “I am not proposing to seek your votes because there is a blue sky ahead today.” – James Callaghan
- “Part of my trademark is my blue sunglasses and cross earrings, which I always have.” – Alvin Leung
- “Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.” – Hugh Hefner
- “My past as a player is strongly linked to the red, white and blue France shirt.” – Didier Deschamps
- “There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.” – Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
- “When I paint green, it doesn’t mean grass; when I paint blue, it doesn’t mean sky.” – Henri Matisse
- “In the afternoon, over gold screens, I will brush the blue dust of my dreams.” – John Gould Fletcher
- “Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?” – Mark E. Smith
- “Every man’s closet should be dark pair of blue jeans, a black jean, and a mid wash jean.” – Tan France
- “A certain blue enters your soul. A certain red has an effect on your blood pressure.” – Henri Matisse,
- “This great blue world of ours is but a house of leaves, moments before the wind.” – Mark Z. Danielewski
- “Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.” – B. B. King
- “Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.” – Uma Thurman
- “I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.” – Banks
- “The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.” – Thomas Carlyle
- “At first there is nothing, then there is a profound nothingness, after that a blue profundity.” – Yves Klein
- “It doesn’t matter what my eyes have seen, For the better out-of-the-blue comes green.” – Ana Claudia Antunes
- “When the going gets tough in Washington, presidents appoint ‘blue ribbon’ commissions.” – Christopher Buckley
- “Be like the bluebird who never is blue, for he knows from his upbringing what singing can do.” – Cole Porter.
- “I think I have something tonight that’s not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.” – Elvis Presley
- “It’s a blue album, but it’s not a blues album. I’m not pretending all of a sudden now I’m blues.” – Neil Young
- “The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.” – William Cullen Bryant
- “I need the shade of blue that rips your heart out. You don’t see that type of blue around here.” – Cath Crowley
- “If blue is a dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?” – Federico Garcia Lorca
- “Today, Blue thought, is the day I stop listening to the future and start living it instead.” – Maggie Stiefvater
- “Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.” – H. P. Lovecraft
- “The fading blue of yesterday’s sky is reminding of the hopeless love I told the moon about you.” – Laura Chouette
- “I guess when you’re on ‘Blue Peter’ there’s that goody-two-shoes image which people find attractive.” – Konnie Huq
- “You have to carry so many archetypes as an actor, especially as a blonde-haired, blue-eyed one.” – Kristin Lehman.
- “Life’s too short to wear boring clothes and apply boring lipsticks, and BTW, I loved my blue lipstick.” – Nia Sharma
- “It was a beautiful bright autumn day, with air like cider and a sky so blue you could drown in it.” – Diana Gabaldon
- “A lot of times, really wonderful things that have come my way have come basically out of the blue.” – Stacey D’Erasmo
- “My experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies even more beautiful.” – Kelly Clarkson
- “I fall in love with Britain every day, with bridges, buses, blue skies… but it’s a brutal world, man.” – Pete Doherty
- “Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.”- George William Russell
- “Somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue, and the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.” – Judy Garland
- “This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.” – Sylvia Plath
- Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.” – Diane von Furstenberg
- “Reach me a gentian, give me a torch! Let me guide myself with the blue, forked torch of this flower.” – D. H. Lawrence
- “The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart; he never felt The witchery of the soft blue sky!” – William Wordsworth
- “I love the ocean. I’ve always liked the blue, so tranquil and peaceful and gliding. And the fear of it.” – Siouxsie Sioux
- “My parents are very proud that I was a ‘Blue Peter’ presenter and of me going to Cambridge to do economics.” – Konnie Huq
- “Blue Ivy can say she knows who her great-great-great-great-grandfather is. How many people can say that?” – Mathew Knowles
- “The story of Little Blue Riding Hood is true. Only the color has been changed to prevent an investigation.” – Stan Freberg
- “How can one find the first moment of love? When, in what instant, does the night’s dark sky become blue?” – Susan Abulhawa
- “When people are infected by my charm, they don’t see my size. My piercing deep blue eyes are distracting.” – Peter Dinklage
- “If you’re successful, ‘Blue Shift’ has what many have called the most satisfying ‘Half-Life’ ending yet.” – Randy Pitchford
- “I’ve been feeling a little blue—just a pale, elusive azure. It isn’t serious enough for anything darker.” – L. M. Montgomery
- “Yes, I believe blue material is funny, but if that’s all you’ve got, you’re dead in the water. It’s not good.” – Howard Stern
- “Although Dorothy in Blue Velvet was humiliated and hurt by men, basically I could react to how she felt.” – Isabella Rossellini
- “I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky.” – Oscar Wilde
- “I don’t care to be pretty,” Blue shot back hotly, “I care to look on the outside like I look on the inside.” – Maggie Stiefvater
- “Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.” – Charles de Lint
- “Did I end up finding a little blue pill to cure America’s electoral dysfunction? Unfortunately, it’s not that simple.” – Mo Rocca
- “I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.” – Johnny Cash
- “Love was a feeling completely bound up with color, like thousands of rainbows superimposed one on top of the other.” – Paulo Coelho
- “Sometimes sadness is appropriate. Not something to run from, not something to numb… just something to feel.” – Marianne Williamson.
- “I learned really valuable lessons from ‘Blue’s Clues.’ I’d repeat them every day. ‘You can do things. You are smart.'” – Steve Burns
- “Blue slips enable home-state senators to ensure that the federal judges serving in their states are highly qualified.” – Mazie Hirono
- “Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.” – Robert Collier
- “I never fry a doughnut! If you want a doughnut, go and buy one once in a blue moon. It’s about everything in moderation.” – Mary Berry
- “I value individuals and societies. I care about those who are not born yet. That is the reason for my joys and blues.” – Petek Kabakci
- “And in the morning when the sunrise. Look in the water, see the blue sky. As if heaven has been laid there at our feet.” – Conor Oberst
- “I’ve played at Anfield and you can look at The Kop and there are blue pockets all over. It’s another level in Glasgow.” – Graeme Souness
- “You might be a redneck if… the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.” – Jeff Foxworthy
- “I actually didn’t own any North Face until I was 18 and the first one I had was a gorgeous Blue Extreme and I loved it.” – Princess Nokia
- “I love life. There’s so much to learn and see all the time, and nothing nicer for me than to wake up, and the sky is blue.” – Pattie Boyd
- “And they were canopied by the blue sky, So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.” – Lord Byron
- “Day holds the sky with big blue arms Until the sun sends her off into evening With a grateful blaze of vibrant colors.” – Terri Guillemets
- “O suns and skies and clouds of June, and flowers of June together. Ye cannot rival for one hour October’s bright blue weather.” – Helen Hunt
- “This is my vision-what I imagine I’ll pass through on my way to the light. The blue sky, the clouds, the rays of light.” – Julie Anne Peters
- “I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.” – Katherine Applegate
- “I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity – all I hope for in my clothes.” – Yves Saint Laurent
- “Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.” – T. E. Hulme
- “I have broken the blue boundary of color limits, come out into the white; beside me comrade-pilots swim in this infinity.” – Kazimir Malevich
- “I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
- “Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.” – Harsha Bhogle
- “All of this blue on my face is from the gunpowder residue from the grenade. It blasted it into my face and stained the skin.” – Kyle Carpenter
- “The Blue and White government, led by me, will assemble the strongest security cabinet against terrorism and restore deterrence.” – Benny Gantz
- “I wrote ‘The Blue Sweater’ to inspire more people to become engaged in working to solve the problems of global poverty.” – Jacqueline Novogratz
- “Cable news wants you to believe that America is red versus blue. I would argue America is way more purple than it looks.” – Alexandra C. Pelosi
- “I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.” – George Linnaeus Banks
- “Don’t be scared of me because you can’t get around like I get around. You gotta have a blue book to follow me. I’m just not local.” – LaVar Ball
- “Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.” – Ferran Adria
- “I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, ‘I want to look like them!'” – Selena Gomez
- “It took me three weeks to write the ‘Rhapsody in Blue.’ I had always wanted to write something blue and Paul Whiteman inspired.” – George Gershwin
- “Because I’m so pale, I am basically like a new-born fish, you can see my heart through my chest, like I’m see-through, I’m so blue.” – Alice Levine
- “The true person is; Not anyone in particular; But like the deep blue color; Of the limitless sky, It is everyone, everywhere in the world.” – Dogen
- “The brilliant thing about ‘Blue Peter’ is the variety of the stuff you do and the experiences that you have, just amazing experiences.” – Konnie Huq
- “Gershwin inspired me very much. The concept of ‘That Lucky Old Sun’ was inspired by ‘Rhapsody in Blue’ – not influenced, but inspired.” – Brian Wilson
- “Tangled Up in Blue, shifts perspective several times during the song to tell a tangled version of [Bob] Dylan’s marriage and dissolution.” – Bob Dylan
- “The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.” – Cynthia Kadohata
- “I love blue in all its shades and textures. I wear navy like others wear black, and I love the blue in flowers – cornflowers, delphiniums.” – Tory Burch
- “Never has a pigment been better named than ultramarine blue. Fashionable, even today, in its nomenclature! It is ultra in every way.” – Karen Fitzgerald
- “Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.” – Diane von Furstenberg
- “When the flowers, and the sky are blue, then you shall have the mountains rise up and kiss the sky as a mother would kiss her child.” – Anthony T. Hincks
- “Oh, 1994, April 27. There won’t be a day like that ever again. I mean, the sky was blue, with a blueness that had never been there before.” – Desmond Tutu
Wrapping Up
From Frank Lloyd Wright to Desmond Tutu, blue has been used as an inspiration for many great minds throughout history. Whether it’s the blue sky or blue jeans, everyone can find some sort of beauty in this unique color. Blue is more than just a hue; it represents something special and timeless that will never go away. Let’s continue to find beauty and inspiration in the blue around us.
