78+ Best Waterfall Quotes: Exclusive Selection

A waterfall is an area where water flows over a vertical drop or a series of steep drops in the course of a stream or river. Profoundly inspirational waterfall quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Famous Waterfall Quotes

Run wild and free like a waterfall. Anamika Mishra

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

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

Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Water is the driver of nature. Leonardo Da Vinci

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

Adopt the pace of nature. Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene! Mehmet Murat Ildan

A river that forgets its source will surely dry up. Yoruba Proverb

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

Surrender to the flow. Mike Gordon

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

The water tells none of its secrets. Nikos Engonopoulos

Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls. Munia Khan

When water falls, it flies. Anthony T. Hincks

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

Water is the most perfect traveler because when it travels it becomes the path itself! Mehmet Murat Ildan

Emerald slopes became so tall they touched the clouds, and showers painted diamond waterfalls that sluiced down cliff sides. Victoria Kahler

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

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

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

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

There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you. Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

While people are struggling unhappily in the cities against the cruel authorities, a waterfall happily and cheerfully flows in nature; there is happiness only if there is freedom! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

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

All anyone can hope 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 Dantica

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

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

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing, in the end, can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can’t go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does. Margaret Atwood

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. God is the mastermind behind all matter every earth shattering scientific discovery and mystery that is yet to be unravelled was dreamed and enacted by God. Benjamin F Sullivan

Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen trusting that whichever way it goes. It’s for the best. Mandy Hale

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 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

Romance often begins by a splashing waterfall and ends over a leaky sink. Ellen DeGeneres

Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows of the clouds to the cliffs and hollows of the rocks, out of the sky thunder into the thunder of the falling rivers. John Muir

Your love is like a waterfall, running wild and free. Chris Tomlin

The higher the trail the steeper, it grows ten thousand tiers of dangerous cliffs, the stone bridge is slippery with green moss cloud after cloud keeps flying by waterfalls hang like ribbons of silk the moon shines down on the bright pool I climb the highest peak once more to wait where the lone crane flies. Hanshan

I am not here for calm waters anymore. I want to be known for my love for hurricanes. Nitya Prakash

A cheery relaxation is man’s natural state, just as nature itself is relaxed. A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall like. Vernon Howard

Love like water, searching for the sea. Love like Time, searching for meaning. Love like all that was, and ever will be. Gregory David Roberts

Life is naked. A nude body is the truest and noblest symbol of life. If I draw a mountain as a heap of human forms and paint a waterfall in the shape of tumbling human bodies, it is because I see in the mountain a heap of living things, and in the waterfall a precipitate current of life.  Kahlil Gibran

Take a fish out of water it dies. Take the love out of my heart, and I become an atheist. Anthony T. Hincks

You know you are in Africa at Victoria Falls because there is nothing anyplace to keep you from stepping off into the cataract, not a handrail, not an inch of barbed wire. The falls represent death for the taking. Norman Rush

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

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

When the moonlight and the waterfall come together, all other things fade from the scene! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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. Mike May

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

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

To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body. In both, we constantly seek and stumble upon divinity, which like feeding the lake, and the spring becoming a waterfall, feeds, spills, falls, and feeds itself all over again. Gretel Ehrlich

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

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

Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls. Munia Khan

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

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

Have you ever stood where a stream spills into a river? The two become one. They laugh over the stones together, twist through the sharp canyons together, plunge down the waterfalls together. It is the same when a man and woman love one another. It is not always a pleasant thing, but when it happens, a man has little to say about it. Women, like streams, can be smooth one minute and make a man feel like he’s swimming through white water the next. Catherine Anderson

Many a calm river begins as a turbulent waterfall, yet none hurtles and foams all the way to the sea. Mikhail Lermontov

We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea. T. S. Eliot

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

Twisting through the thorn thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes to a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won’t be owned. Dana Gioia

Always be like water. Float in the times of pain or dance like waves along with the wind which touches its surface. Santosh Kalwar

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

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

The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are imagined only that content us. Henry David Thoreau

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. Hermann Hesse

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world’s great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. N’orman Maclean

Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness! Mehmet Murat Ildan

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

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

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. Anne Frank