100+ Inspirational Waterfall Quotes To Bring Out Your Inner Explorer

I have a confession to make: I’m a bit of a waterfall tragic.

There’s just something about these natural wonders that captivates me, whether they’re calm and serene or thundering with power. 

And, as a keen photographer, they are my absolute favourite thing to capture on camera. 

So, I’ve put together a list of exceptional waterfall quotes that are sure to inspire your sense of adventure! 

Whether you’re looking for motivational quotes about waterfalls or the perfect caption for your Instagram post, you’ve come to the right place. 

I’ve collected 100 best waterfall quotes to capture the magic and emotions they inspire. You’ll find a variety of different quotes on waterfalls here, including short sayings, witty anecdotes, and perfect captions about waterfalls to share the love.

Inspiring Waterfall Quotes

“There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” ~ Patrick Ness

“Waterfalls are nature’s waterslide.” ~ Unknown

“A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence” ~ Jim Watkins

“You cannot hear the waterfall if you stand next to it. I paint my jungles in the desert.” ~ Unknown

“Run wild and free like a waterfall” ~ Anamika Mishra

“Grace be the waterfall in the wild of my mind.” ~ Unknown

“As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.”~ Abbi Glines

“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

“A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks.” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan.⁠

“A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us.” ~ Lucy Larcom 

“Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls” ~ Munia Khan

“Just let go ~ and fall like a little waterfall.” ~ Bob Ross

“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

“The waterfall falls but shamelessly and joyfully.”~ Unknown

“The sound of water is worth more than all the poets words.” ~ Octavio Paz

“Every teardrop is a waterfall.” ~ Coldplay

“A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall. When you see it, you feel its power.” ~ Unknown

“For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.” ~ Salman Rushdie

“I can see my rainbow calling me through the misty breeze of my waterfall.” ~ Jimi Hendrix

“We start in different places, but in the end, we all meet at the waterfall.” ~ Unknown

“There’s nobody living who couldn’t stand all afternoon in front of a waterfall. Anyone who can sit on a stone in a field awhile can see my painting. Nature is like parting a curtain, you go into it as you would cross an empty beach to look at the ocean.” ~ Agnes Martin

“Under the waterfall, take your time, I don’t mind if we stay in the rain. These liquid skies will show the way.” ― The Anever

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have faith in its course. It will go on its own way, meandering here, trickling there. It will find the grooves, the cracks, the crevices. Just follow it. Never let it out of your sight. It will take you.” ~ Sheng-yen

“Remember, the trick to not getting swept over the waterfall is swimming upstream.” ~ Unknown

“The fall of dropping water wears away the stone.” ~ Lucretius

“Look for yourself in the waterfall – still for just a moment before moving on again.” ~ Unknown

“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

“Above them, a waterfall tumbled from a clifftop as high as a church steeple. The water fell in milky blue strands, shooting spray in the air that danced in rainbows of gold, pink, and blue.” ~ Martine Bailey

“I keep my gratitude in my smile, a glistening waterfall in the sun.” ~ Sanober Khan 

“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

“Grace is finding a waterfall when you were only looking for a stream.” ~ Vanessa Hunt

“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

“Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.” ~ Annie Dillard

“Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.” ~ Unknown

“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

“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.” ~ Margaret Atwood

“When God takes a shower, waterfalls come to life around the world. When I take a shower, my hair usually clogs the drain.” ~ Anthony T. Hincks

“Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself.” ~ Unknown

“My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.” ~ Mel Brooks

“There’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls tumbling, gushing.” ~ Julie Andrews 

“Look with open eyes, and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.” ~ Anthony Hincks

“Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness.” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

“And down the waterfall where ever it may take me, I know that life won’t break me when I come to call.”  Robbie Williams

“Mountain-rose petals, Falling, falling, falling now… Waterfall music. ” ~ Matsuo Basho

“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

“Drink the waters meant to drown you.” ~ Nelou Keramati

“The power of a waterfall is nothing but a lot of drips working together.” ~ Unknown

“It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. It was much, much more he knew. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for.” ~ Michael Delaware

“Tell your dream to the waterfall.” ~ Sellale

“A waterfall cannot be silent, just as wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks.” ~ Unknown

“Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink.” ~ Ellen

“With meditation, I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.” ~ Mary Pipher

“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

“The waterfall winks at every passerby.” ~ Marty Rubin

“A strong person and a waterfall always carve their own path.” ~ Unknown

“A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.” ~ Vernon Howard

“You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people by your words and smiles. You carry within you the power to make the world better.” ~ Sharon G. Larsen

“I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.” ~  Unknown 

“I love the sounds and the power of pounding water, whether it is the waves or a waterfall.” – Mike May

“We are all naturally seekers of wonders. We travel far to see the majesty of old ruins, the venerable forms of the hoary mountains, great waterfalls, and galleries of art. And yet the world’s wonder is all around us; the wonder of setting suns, and evening stars, of the magic spring-time, the blossoming of the trees, the strange transformations of the moth.” ~ Albert Pike

“No matter how powerful a waterfall is, it cannot be heard from far away because all waterfalls are local. If you want the whole world to hear you, take a universal position where all can see you, just like the Moon, just like the Sun.” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan

“Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.” ~ Kimberly McCreight

“You do not drown simply by plunging into the water, you only drown if you stay beneath the surface.” – Paulo Coelho

“Life is like a waterfall. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it.” ~ Unknown

“They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water.” ~ Jonathan Foer

“Lessons from a waterfall — Keep moving, and you will eventually get over it.” ~ Unknown

“Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near.” ~ Yosa Buson

“I need waves. I need waterfalls. I want rushing currents.” ~ Tahereh Mafi

“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.” ~ Sigourney Weaver

“Mother Nature is the greatest artist and water is one of her favourite brushes.”~ Rico Besserdich 

 “The water tells none of its secrets.” ~  Nikos Engonopoulos

“My desert soul erupts with turquoise water, floods and cascades and waterfalls rushing in around my rocky parts, pushing and reshaping and filling every hidden dark spot.”  ~ Kiersten White

“It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” ~ Nicholas Sparks

“Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” ~Lao Tzu

“The cold and crystal clear water, it falls gently on the sleeper, cleansing the mind and soothing the soul…” ~ El Fuego

Best Waterfall Captions For Instagram

Making your waterfall captions funny and engaging is crucial to engaging your Instagram audience. There are plenty of cheeky, sometimes pun-filled captions for waterfall pics that will help you make your post stand out.

There’s no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music

A waterfall is a miracle of nature

I just heard a joke about a waterfall. It was a pour joke

These waterfalls have me roaring with excitement

I would caption this with a waterfall pun, but that’s too main-stream

Sometimes you just gotta go with the flow

Water-falling in love with this place

Waterfalls know how to get down

I love places that make you realise how tiny you and your problems are.

Dreams are made of trails and waterfalls

There is nothing more magical than a waterfall

A waterfall is nature’s shower

Make memories one waterfall at a time

Like a river, life doesn’t flow backwards

Fallin‘ in love all over again

Hello, nature, I’ve really mist you

The waterfall is nature’s laughter

I’ve never mist a chance to see a waterfall

Enjoying nature’s shower

Look for yourself in the waterfall – still for just a moment before moving on again

Our lives flow like water in a waterfall

Let all your troubles fall away

Advice from a waterfall: Make a splash!

Great things are over every fall and around every bend

I’m not going to water this down for you

Gone chasing waterfalls. Be back never

Happily chasing waterfalls

Let this waterfall wash over me 

I’m falling for you

Live Streaming. Literally

Life is better with waterfalls

We start in different places, but in the end, we all meet at the waterfall

Happiness is where the waterfalls are

Water your roots so your soul can blossom

And like a fine wine, I’ve left the most relatable one for the wine lover to last –

Good to the last drop

Conclusion

And there you have it! 

A collection of beautiful waterfall quotes that are sure to ignite your wanderlust and inspire your sense of adventure. 

I hope these quotes have encouraged you to get out there, spend some time in nature, and capture some beautiful images of these natural wonders. 

Plus, with so many powerful and inspiring quotes on this list, you’re sure to find the perfect caption for your next Instagram post! 

Now, I’d love to hear from you. Which of these quotes resonated with you the most? 

Do you have any other favourite waterfall quotes that you think I should add to the list? 

Let me know in the comments below!

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