These yellow quotes will inspire you. Yellow is the color between orange and green on the spectrum of visible light. It is evoked by light with a dominant wavelength of roughly 575–585 nm. It is a primary color in subtractive color systems, used in painting or color printing.
Below you will find a collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging yellow quotes, yellow sayings, and yellow proverbs.
Best Yellow Quotes
- “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
- “How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” ~ Conor Oberst
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“Yellow is capable of charming God.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.” ~ Edmund Burke
- “Silence isn’t golden. It’s yellow.” ~ Zell Miller
- “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 von Goethe
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“Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” ~ Pablo Picasso
- “Yellow usually means it’s not that serious.” ~ Bobby Unser
- “Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.” ~ Fran Drescher
- “Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!” ~ Thomas Hood
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“All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.” ~ Alexander Pope
- “Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.” ~ Alexander Theroux
- “My way of life
Is fall’n into the sear and yellow leaf.” ~ William Shakespeare - “Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold” ~ Aristotle
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“I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.” ~ Zell Miller
- “She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: “Winter is dead.” ~ A. A. Milne
- “The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.” ~ Robert Hunter
- “I can’t wear yellow anymore. It’s too matchy-matchy with my catheter.” ~ Joan Rivers
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“The colors red, blue, and green are real. The color yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.” ~ Tom Stoppard
- “Follow the yellow brick road.” ~ Yip Harburg
- “And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-petalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.” ~ Steven Erikson
- “We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression… The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.” ~ Charles de Lint
- “Yellow wakes me up in the morning. Yellow gets me on the bike every day. Yellow has taught me the true meaning of sacrifice. Yellow makes me suffer. Yellow is the reason I’m here.” ~ Lance Armstrong
- “Yellow is the brightest and lightest of all colors, and this brilliance is its most noticeable characteristic, which accounts for the way it is used practically and thought of symbolically.” ~ Michael Freeman
- “Into the field of
Yellow flowers
The red setting sun!” ~ Soseki Natsume -
“There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, BUT they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple.” ~ Suzy Kassem
- “When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.” ~ Thomas Hardy
- “What a horrible thing yellow is.” ~ Edgar Degas
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“life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.” ~ Billy Collins
- “There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.” ~ Jorge Luis Borges
- “There is a sun, a light that for want of another word I can only call yellow, pale sulfur-yellow, pale golden citron. How lovely yellow is!” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast” ~ Bob Dylan
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“Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I’m thinking you’re on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.” ~ Alexandra Stan
- “The big yellow one is the sun!” ~ Brian Regan
- “I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.” ~ Justin Bieber
- “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
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“The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.” ~ Zora Neale Hurston
- “Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country” ~ Pablo Alvarado
- “The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with bass notes or dark lake with treble.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky
- “He smelled the garden, the yellow shield of light smote his eyes, and he whispered, “Life is so beautiful.” … Yes, he thought, if I can die saying, “Life is so beautiful,” then nothing else is important.” ~ Mario Puzo , Yellow quotes about life
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“The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” ~ L. Frank Baum
- “the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
- “Orange is an underrated color, it’s the second most underrated color after yellow.” ~ Michel Gondry
- “We are made for goodness. We are made for love. We are made for friendliness. We are made for togetherness. We are made for all of the beautiful things that you and I know. We are made to tell the world that there are no outsiders. All are welcome: black, white, red, yellow, rich, poor, educated, not educated, male, female, gay, straight, all, all, all. We all belong to this family, this human family, God’s family.” ~ Desmond Tutu , Yellow quotes love
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“As a picture painted in yellow always radiates spiritual warmth, or as one in blue has apparently a cooling effect, so green is only boring.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky
- “Don’t eat the yellow snow.” ~ Frank Zappa
- “I get the thumbs up like I’m hailing a yellow cab.” ~ Nicki Minaj
- “Her hair that lay along her back
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“I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. he told me to wear a brown tie.” ~ Rodney Dangerfield
- “Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.” ~ Emil Nolde
- “I have these new policies toward my life, like ‘I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'” ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
- “I like it, but it’s yellow, and I’m like, I didn’t want yellow for my engagement ring.” ~ Paris Hilton
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“The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” ~ Randall Jarrell
- “No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.” ~ Vincent Van Gogh
- “I box in yellow Gox box socks.” ~ Dr. Seuss
- “My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband. -Penelope Featherington” ~ Julia Quinn
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“The middle of the road is for yellow lines and dead armadillos.” ~ Jim Hightower
- “Patience. I colored patience gray, hungover with black clouds. I colored hope yellow, just like the sun we could see for a few short morning hours. Too soon the sun rose high in the sky & disappeared from view, leaving us bereft and staring at blue.” ~ Virginia C. Andrews
- “Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.” ~ Jerome Cady
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“Any yellow, any blue, any red, and a white are all I need.” ~ Andrew McDermott
- “Poetry is a theorem of a yellow-silk handkerchief knotted with riddles, sealed in a balloon tied to the tail of a kite flying in a white wind against a blue sky in spring.” ~ Carl Sandburg
- “I was so happy I wanted to fold all the people into paper airplanes and fly them into the lidless eye of that big yellow moon.” ~ Steve Toltz
