120 Yellow Quotes for a Happy Aesthetic

By Samantha Williams

Writer, Entrepreneur and Inspirational quote curator

Published April 16, 2023

These cute yellow quotes are great for expressing your colorful personality.

The color yellow can be represented as a soft pastel aesthetic or as a bright and bold hue.

Every shade of yellow is inspirational in its own way.

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What are the benefits of reading these yellow quotes?

These yellow quotes about the color of the sun will brighten your day and lift your spirits.

When you think of the color yellow, you might think of vibrant lemons, soft sunshine, or rich honey.

Yellow is a vibrant color that exudes:

Happiness
Positivity
Life

Whichever shade of yellow is your favorite; you’ll love these colorful quotes.

This list of insightful thoughts and sayings will give you a new appreciation for the color yellow.

You’ll be inspired to face the day with a newfound creativity and a positive outlook.

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Yellow quotes that will inspire you to express your colorful personality

1. “Yellow makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over.” – Anthony T. Hincks

2. “I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.” – Conor Oberst

3. “There is no blue without yellow and without orange.” – Vincent Van Gogh

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4. “In the world of safe hues, like black, red and white, yellow shouts: ‘Look at me. I’m happy!’” – Joy Sewing

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5. “What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!” – Henry Austin Dobson

6. “Yellow is vagueness and luminousness, both.” – Alexander Theroux

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7. “Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.” – Pablo Picasso

8. “Yellow usually means it’s not that serious.” – Bobby Unser

9. “Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it’s yellow.” – Edmund Burke

10. “It was all glimmer and warm honey in the yellow light.” – Patrick Rothfuss

Yellow quotes that will warm your soul

11. “I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don’t know where it’s going to lead me, but I follow it.” – Grace Jones

12. “Yellow is not an in-between color, you’re either all in or you’re not.” – Mobolaji Dawodu

13. “The sound of colors is so definite that it would be hard to find anyone who would express bright yellow with base notes, or dark lake with the treble.” – Wassily Kandinsky

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14. “How lovely yellow is! It stands for the sun.” – Vincent Van Gogh

15. “I used to believe that as a dark-skinned girl I couldn’t wear yellow. Growing up I felt like I was too dark — and as I got older I started to think I was too large to wear such a bright color. It always felt like it wasn’t appropriate for me to wear. Then I realized how great it looks on darker skin tones. It wasn’t my skin tone or my curves preventing me from wearing the bright hue — I was just afraid to shine.” – Malia Anderson

16. “Yellow is the perceived color of sunshine. It is associated with joy, happiness, intellect, and energy.” – Marcia Moses

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17. “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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18. “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

19. “I’ve always said the rubber duck is a yellow catalyst.” – Florentijn Hofman

20. “The yellow is unsteady. The more I try to capture what it’s like now, the less steady it seems. But it’s still there, and yellow all right. Perhaps I am trying too hard, and chasing the yellow away.” – Susan Blackmore

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Yellow quotes that will make you smile

21. “The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick.” – L. Frank Baum

22. “Yellow is seen before other colors when placed against black; this combination is often used to issue a warning.” – Ann Marie Fiore

23. “The yellow glistens. It glistens with various yellows, Citrons, oranges and greens. Flowering over the skin.” – Wallace Stevens

24. “Yellow is a small wheel of cheddar cheese. Permeating a musty odor out of the baker’s shop. Yellow is a thousand paper cranes, floating down a slow, mellow river. Yellow is the round circle of the moon, the light that stays through the coldest night.” – Anisha Datta

25. “She turned to the sunlight; And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: ‘Winter is dead.’” – A. A. Milne

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26. “Fame stole my yellow. Yellow is the color you get when you’re real and brutally honest. Yellow is with my kids. The bundle of bright yellow warming my core, formerly frozen and uninhabitable. They got yellow from me, and I felt yellow giving it to them and it was all good. So, why am I leaving my show? It took my yellow. I wanted it back. Without it I can’t live. The gray kills me.” – Rosie O’Donnell

27. “Yellow is the color which is closest to light. We associate the rays of the sun and the stars with it. It is the radiance of the spirit.” – Ueli Seiler-Hugova

28. “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

29. “Yellow is a very favorable vibration for mental or intellectual activity, as it promotes a clear state of mind. Yellow heightens your awareness and alleviates depression, sadness, or any kind of despondency. Yellow vibration foods are: pineapples, bananas, grapefruit, lemons and corn.” – Tae Yun Kim
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30. “Yellow is my favorite, but what is yellow? Handmaiden to white, it is a slight tarnish of pure light. Take away a bit of white’s absolute luminosity, and what remains is yellow — sunlike, golden as a crown, buttercups in a field, marsh marigolds, a finch’s wing, a plastic flute.” – Richard Grossinger

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Yellow quotes that will brighten your day

31. “Yellow is thought to be uplifting and bring happiness, making it a great color for the kitchen or living room.” – Tracy Jones

32. “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

33. “Yellow is also an amazing attention-getter, which is why you can see McDonald’s signs from so far away. Not to mention, it stands out more than any other color during daylight hours.” – Redi Mene

34. “Daffodils are yellow trumpets of spring” – Richard L. Ratliff

35. “What’s mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn’t fit into a story, what doesn’t have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy.” – Donna Tartt

36. “The sky was yellow and the sun was blue.” – Robert Hunter

37. “Yellow is the color of intellect. When it’s dull, it indicates intellect, but of a mundane nature. When it becomes brighter, moving into gold, there is an elevation of the intellect and it becomes purified through spirit. Muddy or dirty yellow indicates cunning, greed, and a self-centered, egotistical character.” – Keith Sherwood

38. “Silence isn’t golden. It’s yellow.” – Zell Miller

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39. “Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold.” – Aristotle

40. “The colors red, blue and green are real. The color yellow is a mystical experience shared by everybody.” – Tom Stoppard

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Motivational yellow quotes

41. “Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.” – Charles de Lint

42. “Yellow speaks of imagination. It is extensively used in food industries because of its familiarity. The eye notices the highly reflective yellow before it perceives any other color thus pale yellow is an excellent choice for instant product purchase.” – Larry Grimm

43. “Well, my favorite color I guess I would say yellow.” – Fran Drescher

44. “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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45. “I love to shop. Clothes, electronics, and I love jewelry, especially yellow gold.” – Apolo Ohno

46. “Yellow is the color of the east, childhood, and morning.” – Jeffrey D. Anderson

47. “I told my dentist my teeth are going yellow. He told me to wear a brown tie.” – Rodney Dangerfield
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48. “Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me – I am happy.” – Hamlin Garland

49. “There’s something very freeing about yellow. When you wear yellow you just have to go for it.” – Mobolaji Dawodu

50. “Yellow is capable of charming God.” – Vincent Van Gogh

More yellow quotes and sayings

51. “My way of life is fall’n into the sear and yellow leaf.” – William Shakespeare

52. “And over it all, the butterflies swarmed, like a million yellow-pettalled flowers dancing on swirling winds.” – Steven Erikson

53. “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

54. “Into the field of yellow flowers the red setting sun!” – Soseki Natsume

55. When yellow lights struggle with blue shades in hairlike lines.” – Thomas Hardy

56. “What a horrible thing yellow is.” – Edgar Degas

57. “Life is a loaded gun that looks right at you with a yellow eye.” – Billy Collins

58. “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

59. “Sunny, happy with the music, no money. I’m thinking you’re on holiday. Sipping yellow lemonade.” – Alexandra Stan

60. “I just want to be young and fun and you know I think people should all wear yellow shoes.” – Justin Bieber

Yellow quotes about a variety of things that are that color and how we use them

61. “There’s nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos.” — Jim Hightower

62. “The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.” — Randall Jarrell

63. “The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.” — Helen Hunt Jackson

64. “Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.” — Sadie Jones

65. “If people don’t vote, everything stays the same. You can protest until the sky turns yellow or the moon turns blue, and it’s not going to change anything if you don’t vote.” — Dolores Huerta

66. “I write on big yellow legal pads – ideas in outline form when I’m doing stand-up and stuff. It’s vivid that way. I can’t type it into an iPad – I think that would put a filter into the process.” — Robin Williams

67. “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… burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.” — Jack Kerouac

68. “In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.” — Julia Glass

69. “Try to forget what objects you have before you – a tree, a house, a field, or whatever. Merely think, ‘Here is a little square of blue, here an oblong of pink, here a streak of yellow,’ and paint it just as it looks to you, the exact color and shape, until it gives you your own impression of the scene before you.” — Claude Monet

70. “The sweet quality is set opposite to the bitter, and is a gracious, amiable, blessed and pleasant quality, a refreshing of the life, an allaying of the fierceness. It maketh all pleasant and friendly in every creature; it maketh the vegetables of the earth fragrant and of good taste, affording fair, yellow, white and ruddy colors.” — Jakob Bohme

Short Catchy Yellow Quotes

71. “A yellow ripe banana, yellow outside and squishy in.” — Margaret Halsey

72. “Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.” — Jerome Cady

73. “As the yellow gold is tried in fire, so the faith of friendship must be seen in adversity.” — Ovid

74. “Be like curious George, start with a question and look under the yellow hat to find what’s there.” — James Collins

75. “Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!” — Thomas Hood

76. “And the yellow sunflower by the brook, in autumn beauty stood.” — William Cullen Bryant

77. “Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” — Wassily Kandinsky

78. “Yellow is the most luminous of all colors – dare to show your light?” — Shilpa Ahuja

79. “Yellow makes me happy when I’m blue.” — Shilpa Ahuja

80. “Hope my yellow dress brightens up your day.” — Shilpa Ahuja

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Yellow Quotes That Will Brighten Your Day

81. “I seem to voice a lot of sweet, kind of dumb yellow characters for some reason.” — Tom Kenny

82. “Yellow shirts have brightened immigration demonstrations across the country.” — Pablo Alvarado

83. “My mother is convinced that yellow is a happy color and that a happy girl would get a husband.” — Penelope Featherington

84. “There seemed nothing so true as a yellow tree.” — Lorrie Moore

85. “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

86. “The sun had become a light yellow yolk and was walking with red legs across the sky.” — Zora Neale Hurston

87. “The big yellow one is the sun!” — Brian Regan

88. “A yellow room gives you perpetual sunshine.” — Steve Hovland

89. “Yellow Face marks my summation of multiculturalism.” — David Henry Hwang

90. “When men once reach their autumn, sickly joys fall off apace, as yellow leaves from trees” — Edward Young

Funny Yellow Quotes

91. “I’ve seen it all through the yellow windows of the evening train.” ― Tom Waits

92. “When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.” ― Dylan Lauren

93. “Nearly all the Brazilian supporters are wearing yellow shirts – it’s a fabulous kaleidoscope of colour.” ― John Motson

94. The joy is an absurd yellow tulip, popping up in my life, contradicting all the evidence that shows it should not be there.” ― Marya Hornbacher

95. “Her hair that lay along her back. Was yellow like ripe corn.” ― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

96. “Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain.” ― Emil Nolde

97. I have these new policies toward my life, like ‘I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'” ― Elizabeth Gilbert

98. I like it, but it’s yellow, and I’m like, I didn’t want yellow for my engagement ring.” ― Paris Hilton

99. “You should see what she’s wearing, Callie. It’s velvet. Canary yellow velvet. Turban to match. She looks like a furry banana.” ― Sarah MacLean

100. “Orange is an underrated color, it’s the second most underrated color after yellow.” ― Michel Gondry

Yellow Quotes That Are Iconic

101. “For me, this nomination was as if all of a sudden the crucifix began to wear a yellow star.” — Jean-Marie Lustiger

102. “He who wishes to put on the yellow dress without having cleansed himself from sin, who disregards temperance and truth, is unworthy of the yellow dress.” — Max Muller

103. “And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.” — Oscar Wilde

104. My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

105. John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.” — Elizabeth Taylor

106. “Without my Johnson trademark mop of yellow hair, I think I would be nothing.” — Rachel Johnson

107. “When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that’s such a high. It’s a connection to others.” — Marianne Williamson

108. And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree.” — Khalil Gibran

109. “An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea.” — Herman Melville

110. “One of the most courageous things we do is change. If everyone says you’re wonderful every time you wear a red dress, and you change to yellow, that takes courage.” — Barbara De Angelis

Yellow Quotes To Brighten Your Day

111. “And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws.” ― Oscar Wilde

112. “Wearing a pair of yellow shoes does not make you an interesting person, that is of course unless you’ve just murdered someone in them.” ― Simon Doonan

113. “You still owe me a yellow Porsche.” ― Stephenie Meyer

114. “I like to think I play rugby as it should be played – there are no yellow or red cards in my collection – but I cannot say I’m an angel.” ― Jonny Wilkinson

115. “Yellow is the warmest and most ardent of colors, like the sun at its zenith, the Golden Light, the path of communication between men and gods.” ― Jean-Philippe Lenclos

116. I’ve never seen the yellow light, umm the yellow line be wrong.” ― Lou Holtz

117. “I guess it wasn’t everyday they see a yellow lifeboat with no engine going a hundred knots an hour, manned by three kids.” ― Rick Riordan

118. “All-cheering Plenty, with her flowing horn, Led yellow Autumn, wreath’d with nodding corn.” ― Robert Burns

119. “They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man.” ― Bruce Springsteen

120. “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 Goethe

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