65 Easter quotes to inspire and uplift you (2024)

Easter Sunday falls on March 31 this year. For those who celebrate, it's a day of worship, as well as a time for everyone to pay tribute to the long-awaited arrival of spring.

Whatever plans you've got for the holiday this year, you may be in search of an Easter quote to use as an Instagram caption, send to a loved one via text message, or jot down in a greeting card along with Happy Easter wishes.

To help inspire you, we've rounded up a collection of meaningful quotes, bible passages and funny sayings to ensure you've got just the right thing on hand in honor of the big day.

Choose from Psalms, blessings, spring commemorations and a host of other memorable quotes in honor of Easter Sunday. Among them you'll find quotes from authors, musicians and even a few funny ones from the likes of Dolly Parton, Robin Williams, Jim Gaffigan and the most legendary rabbit of all: Bugs Bunny himself.

Whether you've got brunch with the family or a spring celebration scheduled, capture the essence of the holiday using one of these quotes — and don't forget to have yourself a hoppy, er happy Easter.

Happy Easter quotes

• “As for me, I will follow the path of the pink bunnies.” — Magenta Periwinkle
• “Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.” — Gertrude Stein
• “Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.” — Aberjhani, “Songs from the Black Skylar, zPed Music Player”
• “Each night, when I go to sleep, I die. And the next morning, when I wake up, I am reborn.” — Mahatma Gandhi

• “My sun sets to rise again.” — Robert Browning
• “Even the smallest one can change the world,” — Peter Rabbit
• “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” — Anne Frank
• “Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair ... ” — Susan Polis Schutz
• “If you want to be reminded of the love of the Lord, just watch the sunrise.” — Jeannette Walls, “Half Broke Horses”
• “In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.” — L. Frank Baum

• “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.” — John 20:29
• “Easter. The joy of candy, colors, creativity and costuming. A season unlike any other.” — Grant Morrison, “Happy!”
• “The very first Easter taught us this: that life never ends and love never dies.” — Kate McGahan, “Only Gone from Your Sight”
• “Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal and new life.” — Janine di Giovanni
• “The great gift of Easter is hope.” — Basil Hume

• “Easter is very important to me. It’s a second chance.” —Reba McEntire
• “For I remember it is Easter morn, / And life and love and peace are all newborn,/ And joy has triumphed over loss and pain.” — Alice Freeman Palmer, “On a Gloomy Easter”
• “The Easter egg symbolizes our ability to break out of the hardened, protective shell we’ve surrounded ourselves with.” — Siobhan Shaw

Funny Easter quotes

• “Easter, the day Jesus rose from the dead, what should we do? How about eggs? Oh, well, what does that have to do with Jesus? All right, we'll hide them. I don't follow your logic. Don't worry, there's a bunny.” — Jim Gaffigan
• “Oh, carrots are divine, you get a dozen for a dime, it's maaaa-gic!” — Bugs Bunny
• “I warned you, but did you listen to me? Oh, no, you knew it all, didn't you? Oh, it's just a harmless little bunny, isn't it?” — Tim, “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”

• “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.” — Bernard Meltzer
• “I'll tell you one thing, Doc, he weren't no rabbit.” — Bugs Bunny, “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?”
• “Easter is the only time when it’s perfectly safe to put all your eggs in one basket.” — Evan Esar

• “Here’s for me the one big question: How do you get Crucifixion, Resurrection and then chocolate bunnies, colored eggs? How do you do that one? Even kids are going, ‘Rabbits don’t lay eggs. What is this?’” — Robin Williams
• “I still believe in Santa, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, and true love. Don’t even try to tell me different.” — Dolly Parton
• “Good idea: finding the Easter eggs on Easter. Bad idea: finding the Easter eggs on Christmas.” — Jack Handey

Religious quotes from the bible and beyond

• “Go quickly, and tell His disciples that He is risen from the dead.” — Matthew 28:7
• “Let your light shine before others.” — Matthew 5:16
• “Jesus answered him, truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise.” — Luke 23:43
• “I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart, / that You raised Jesus Christ, and He entered my life; / I’ve got to tell everybody, / I’ve got to tell everybody, / I’m so glad I’m saved.” — John P. Kee, “Saved”

• “Well, Jesus kissed his mother’s hands / Whispered, ‘Mother, still your tears / For remember the soul of the universe / Willed a world and it appeared.’” — Bruce Springsteen, “Jesus Was an Only Son”
• “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.” — Romans 10:9
• “I have been crucified with Christ and yet I am alive; yet it is no longer I, but Christ living in me.” — Galatians 2:20
• “He got up / Death could not hold him / My savior He got up / An empty grave / Is there to prove / My savior He got up. — VaShawn Mitchell, “He Got Up”
• “The celebration of your resurrection over death is a celebration of life that should continue well beyond the sunrise service and the music, rehearsed for days prior; it is beyond the sign of spring, beyond the lily, beyond new lambs grazing in open fields. Resurrection is a daily celebration over fear; man’s greatest and most powerful enemy.” — author unknown, “Easter Morning Prayer”
• “They say that oft at Easter dawn/ When all the world is fair, / God’s angels out of heaven are drawn / To list the music there.” —Edna Dean Proctor, “Moscow Bells”

• “People come together with their families to celebrate Easter. What better way to celebrate than to spend a few hours going on the journey of Christ’s life.” — Roma Downey
• “That He should extend His great love unto such as I / Sufficient to own, to redeem, and to justify / Oh, it is wonderful that He should care for me / Enough to die for me” — Charles H. Gabriel, “I Stand All Amazed”
• “Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.” — Pope John Paul II
• “When Jesus says yes, nobody can say no.” —Michelle Williams, “Say Yes”

Easter quotes about spring

• “Nothing ever seems impossible in spring, you know.” — L.M. Montgomery
• “Who taught the sun where to stand in the morning? / And who told the ocean, you can only come this far? / And who showed the moon where to hide ‘til evening? / Whose words alone can catch a falling star? / Well, I know my Redeemer lives / I know my Redeemer lives / All of creation testifies.” — Nicole C. Mullen, “Redeemer”
• “Spring buds burst to bloom, and the river carries their song of life.” ― Jayita Bhattacharjee

• “Where flowers bloom, so does hope.” — Lady Bird Johnson
• “‘Is the spring coming?’ he said. ‘What is it like?’ … ‘It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine, and things pushing up and working under the earth.’” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, “The Secret Garden”
• “That is one good thing about this world … there are always sure to be more springs.” — Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Anne of Avonlea”
• “April hath put a spirit of youth in everything.” — William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 98”
• “There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” — Henri Matisse

• “What do the dear little flowers say? / Listen, while slowly they bend and sway, / Bowing their heads in a reverent way, / This Easter day.” — Lizzie DeArmond, “What Do the Flowers Say?”
• “Always / it’s / spring / and everyone’s / in love and flowers pick themselves.” — E.E. Cummings, “Who Knows If the Moon’s”
• “Easter spells out beauty, the rare beauty of new life. Is life ever so sweet and beautiful as when it comes up fresh in the spring?” —S.D. Gordon, “Day Dawn — A Quiet Talk on Easter”
• “Far from this foreign Easter damp and chilly / My soul steals to a pear-shaped plot of ground, / Where gleamed the lilac-tinted Easter lily / Soft-scented in the air for yards around.” — Claude McKay, “The Easter Flower”

• “Spring is nature’s way of saying, ‘Let’s party!’” — Robin Williams
• “You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda
• “I am going to try and pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes, and listen.” — Anne Lamott
• “It is spring again. The earth is like a child that knows poems by heart.” —Rainer Maria Rilke
• “In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.” — Margaret Atwood
• "Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.” — Martin Luther, “Watchwords for the Warfare of Life”

• “I must have flowers, always and always.” — Claude Monet
• “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.” — Audrey Hepburn
• “Spring adds new life and new joy to all that is.” — Jessica Harrelson
• “Despite the forecast, live like it’s spring.” — Lilly Pulitzer
• “The deep roots never doubt that spring will come.” — Marty Rubin
• “Bloom where you are planted.” — Saint Francis de Sales