How does the color purple make you feel? People often describe this color as mysterious, spiritual, and imaginative. Purple tends to occur rarely in nature, so it is viewed as rare and intriguing. Profoundly inspirational purple quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous Purple Quotes
If you want to make a statement, wear purple. Baron Davis
I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it. Alice Walker
Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender. Alice Walker
This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow. Mervyn Peake
Mauve is just pink trying to be purple. James Whistler
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. Alice Hoffman
Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid’s archery, Sink in the apple of his eye. William Shakespeare
Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust u for a long time. Kim Taehyung
Black is not as good as purple. Ralph Lauren
If Bacchus ever had a color he could claim for his own, it should surely be the shade of tannin on drunken lips, of John Keat’s purple stained mouth, or perhaps even of Homer’s dangerously wine dark sea. Victoria Finlay
It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bed sheet and a purple cape. Rick Riordan
I had the great idea of using markers to gently color the ants so I could tell them apart, but I learned that this is exactly like somebody trying to gently color on you with a thirty story building.
Without dwelling on the tragedy, I’d just like to say that I’m deeply sorry to Mr. Purple and the surviving Purple family. Jim Benton
When I am old, I shall wear purple. Jenny Joseph
Everything changes when a man becomes purple. Charlie McDonnell
I won’t eat any cereal that doesn’t turn the milk purple. Bill Watterson
Yeah, but they’re purple pants, Bobby said as if that made some kind of distinction. Hence, I’m awesome. Amanda Hocking
Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple. Regina Brett
It was strange walking through the empty apartment. My battered purple room was gone, Brittany’s bruised blue was gone. Two coats covered everything. It was like none of it had ever happened. Kimberly Novosel
Purple does something strange to me. Charles Bukowski
Rachael could see the lavender fields from where they sat at the kitchen table. They stretched in a purple haze over the landscape, the bright sunshine washing over them. The mauve complimented the blue grey of the Australian bush in the far distance. Ellen Read
My character was obnoxious, had stinky feet, and wore things like purple tights and a yellow top. I hated the clothes. Andrea Barber
With her fetishistic attachment to the color purple. Tim Kreider
Purple has always been my favorite color but purple, when I was a little kid, was a color that boys weren’t really allowed to wear. That’s what all the kids at school told me. I filled my wardrobe with as much purple as I could possibly find, because who cares? Life’s too short to dress by other people’s rules. Sasha Velour
The hardiest plant in the world is the purple saxifrage. It has delicate looking flowers, with purple petals that seem as though they might blow away in the wind, yet it thrives in the Arctic. The flowers survive by clustering together, low to the ground, offering each other shelter against the hardest conditions on earth. Matt Haig
It’s all or nothing with my makeup. If I get dressed up, I’ll get to an extreme, I’ll wear foundation, bright blue or bright red lipstick with one of my weird purple wigs. Angelina Jolie
The light in that suburban office suite was bright but not harsh; the pale walls were incredibly clean and the carpeting, in Spence’s description, was conspicuosly new and displayed the exact shade of purple found in turnips. Thomas Ligotti
I was very against pink and purple when I was young because they were girls’ colors. But that was only because I didn’t want people to write me off for what I can do. When I got into my 20s, I decided that was stupid. Danica Patrick
Some people are Red voters and some people are Blue voters, but I am a Purple voter because I can see good and bad in the policies of both and vote accordingly. C.A.A. Savastano
If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different. Alber Elbaz
I’m asking for simplicity, for purity and ease of choice and no pressure. I’m asking for Preschool. Ned Vizzini
Purple puts us in touch with the part of ourselves that is regal. Purple is the queen in all women; it helps us keep our backs straight and heads held high. Byllye Avery
I piled the cookies, their lovely violet color peeping through a light coating of powdered sugar, on a plate. I studied the offering, then added a small bowl of vanilla ice cream as well as a serving of my ube halaya, the purple yam jam I’d used to create the cookies, to the dish. Perfect. Mia P. Manansala
Purple is the color of royalties. It stands for luxury, wealth, and sophistication. It is also the color of passion, romance, and sensitivity. Amira
Nicasia saunters over to where the smith is sitting. She wears a dress of purple that is peacock blue when it catches the light. Her hair is woven in to a braid that circles her head, and at her brow is a chain from which dangle dozens upon dozens of beads in sparkling purples and blues and amber. Holly Black
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
And when I fall in love, I began, I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes. V.C. Andrews
Oh, grown ups cannot understand, And grown ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill. Alfred Noyes
Indigo has a purifying, stabilizing, cleansing effect when fear, repression, and obsessions have disturbed your mental body. Indigo food vibrations are blackberries, blue plums, blueberries, purple brocoli, beetroot, and purple grapes. Tae Yun Kim
An enchanting harmony of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, Radiant Orchid inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love, and health. It is a captivating purple, one that draws you in with its beguiling charm. Leatrive Eiseman
He told her the flowers in her painting contained exactly the purple substance of the flowers on the desk in front of her Let us open the window and see if your painting can entice the butterflies. Sarah Hall
When I write after dark, observed Cyril Connlly, the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. Anne Fadiman
The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons. Anita Desai
Virtue shows quite as well in rags and patches as she does in purple and fine linen. Charles Dickens
God sits on a blue throne called the vena cava. There is no need for a temple to communicate or pray to him. His truths travel from his seat over a purple bridge in your heart, also known as your conscience. Your conscience is where his wisdom shines. A crystal embedded within a fold of your pulmonary trunk acts as a transmitter and receiver. God is closer than you think. In your heart, is his truth and light. Suzy Kassem
Time moves slowly, but passes quickly. Alice Walker
I loved my bedroom the vanity with the warped mirror, the squat chairs without armrests, the elaborate, oriental dressing screen. I loved curving my body into the velvet sofa, books piled at my feet, the dusty, floor length curtains pushed back from the windows so I could see the sky. At night the purple fringed lampshades turned the light a hue somewhere between lilac and dusky plum. April Genevieve Tucholke
Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved. Alice Walker
The chickens bounced onto the pink and purple bush and landed on Annika’s head. It’s funny because nobody has ever said that before. I should get an award or something because I just made history! Annika
People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back. Alice Walker
I raised the hood of my cape and opened my umbrella. Headmistress had given it to me for my twenty first birthday, knowing how fond I was of the purple foxglove that bloomed in the park. When open, the underside revealed in each of the panels a spray of painted stems, lush with lavender bells. No matter how bad the weather, you will always be able to look up and see something that will cheer you, she had said, knowing that my quiet moods often concealed an orphan’s melancholy. Karen Essex
The more I wonder, the more I love. Alice Walker
What a noise we’ll make among the drab and dull, how we’ll wait, I want more green. I hope I did not imply I only wanted your colors. We can’t turn a cold shoulder to green, and blue, and purple, for the sake of all ordered things, how can you dismiss purple? Call him back and tell him of my need of purple! Shannon Hale
Why any woman give a shit what people think is a mystery to me. Alice Walker
The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills. Mike Bond
Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with Burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. Jack Kerouac
When I’m with Purple, I’m totally with Purple; when I’m doing my thing, I’m totally doing my own thing. Tommy Bolin
October arrives in a swirl of fragrant blue leaf smooth, the sweetness of slightly frosted MacIntosh apples, and little hard acorns falling. We are in the midst of cool crisp days, purple mists, and Nature recklessly tossing her whole palette of dazzling tones through fields and woodlands. Jean Hersey
Purple is the last of the rainbow colors, so it means I will love and trust you for a long time. Kim Tae Hyung
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. H.G. Bissinger
If you want to make a statement, wear purple. Baron Davis
All the other colors are just colors, but purple seems to have a soul when you look at it, it’s looking back at you. Uniek Swain
Purple does something strange to me. Charles Bukowski
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when underage, but when of age, in purple. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I think The Color Purple is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe. Alice Walker
I see music in colours. I love music that’s black, pink, purple or red but I hate music that’s green, yellow or brown. Charli XCX
Twilight fell The sky turned to a light, dusky purple littered with tiny silver stars. J. K. Rowling
I actually was there down in Florida when Prince did Purple Rain in the rain. He was out there with the guitar goin. It was absolutely awesome. Joe Maurer
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. Alice Hoffman
I’m not posh, not in the slightest. My parents spent some money on my education, but I wasn’t born to the purple. Matthew Goode
Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are red, Violets are blue. Poor violet violated for a rhyme. Derek Jarmen
The range in brightness from the purple glow of the sunset to the dark sky above is too great for most films and naturally it is beyond the range of printed pictures. James Elkins
Poetry is a mystic, sensuous mathematics of fire, smoke-stacks, waffles, pansies, people, and purple sunsets. Carl Sandburg
I was a loudmouth rock star when I was still in college. Purple hair this week, green hair next week, blonde hair the week after. I was doing that fashion before it was really cool. Pepa
Violet is the most soothing, tranquilizing, and cooling color vibration. It encourages the healing of unbalanced mental conditions in people who are overly nervous or high strung. Foods of the violet vibration are purple broccoli, beetroot, and purple grapes. Tae Yun Kim
I still bleed purple and gold, so it was a no brainer for me to go to LSU. Eric Reid
Far clouds of feathery gold. Shaded with deepest purple, gleam. Like islands on a dark blue sea. Percy Bysshe Shelley
The sky is already purple; the first few stars have appeared, suddenly, as if someone had thrown a handful of silver across the edge of the world. Alice Hoffman
I feel like you have to tell people who you are, but you don’t have to be disrespectful about it. But you also don’t have to be a shrinking violet. Keke Palmer
The themes in Violet are universal accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that. Joshua Henry
I went through this phase where I thought pink and purple matched. To dance class, I’d wear purple tights and pink leg warmers and paint my shoes purple. It was really odd. Carrie Ann Inaba
When the time is ripe for certain things, these things appear in different places in the manner of violets coming to light in the early spring. Farkas Bolyai
When God made the color purple, God was just showing off. Mae Jemison
Stars will blossom in the darkness, Violets bloom beneath the snow. Julia Caroline Dorr
Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh. Marge Piercy
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. Tennessee Williams
I like purple too. I looked up color psychology before doing any house painting because I was curious what the colors I like mean. And purple is very royal and creative. Paul Dano
Purple can be both luxurious and modest. Shilpa Ahuja
The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills. Mike Bond
The range in brightness from the purple glow of the sunset to the dark sky above is too great for most films, and naturally, it is beyond the range of printed pictures. James Elkins
The bougainvillea hung about it, purple and magenta, in livid balloons. Anita Desai
Better keep the young on lemons and lavender until they’ve reached the age of discretion. Henry Miller
Purple, wonder, majesty, and enchantment doesn’t even begin to cover the feelings that I had the first time that I met you that only grew. Ottilie Weber
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
And when I fall in love, I began, I will build a mountain to touch the sky. Then, my lover and I will have the best of both worlds, reality firmly under our feet, while we have our heads in the clouds with all our illusions still intact. And the purple grass will grow all around, high enough to reach our eyes. V.C. Andrews
Seek to be the purple thread in the long white gown. Epictetus
