You cannot look at a waterfall and not feel mesmerized. There’s something about the roaring and tumbling of the water, the beauty of the cascades and the tranquility of nature. Something that just makes you click.
The most beautiful waterfalls I have ever seen were the ones in Iceland during our 1-week long trip. But you can find gorgeous waterfalls everywhere around the world, perhaps even in your own “backyard”.
If you’re on the look for the perfect waterfall caption or quote, I’ve put together 99 of my favorite captions about waterfalls – from movie and song quotes, inspiring and motivational captions to funny sayings and romantic thoughts – it’s all about the beautiful creation of Mother Nature, called waterfall.
99 Catchy Waterfall Captions for Your Instagram Post
Best waterfall quotes for Instagram
1. “A waterfall is concerned only with being itself, not with doing something it considers waterfall-like.” – Vernon Howard
2. “Do not feel sad for your tears, as rocks never regret the waterfalls.” – Munia Khan
3. “Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.” – Unknown
4. “There’s hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall.” – Patrick Ness
5. “Water is the most perfect traveller because when it travels it becomes the path itself.” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
6. “Sometimes, it’s hard to tell how fast the current’s moving until you’re headed over a waterfall.” – Kimberly McCreight
7. “Your love is like a waterfall, running wild and free.” – Chris Tomlin
8. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” – Nicholas Spark, The Notebook (1996)
9. “Go with the flow. Force nothing. Let it happen – trusting that whichever way it goes. It’s for the best.” – Mandy Hale
10. “Waterfalls are exciting because they have power, they have rainbows, they have songs, and they have boldness and craziness!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Best waterfall quotes
11. “Look with open eyes and you will see the beauty of the waterfall.” – Anthony Hincks
12. “A river cuts through a rock, not because of its power but because of its persistence.” – Jim Watkins
13. “You don’t have the power to make rainbows or waterfalls, sunsets or roses, but you do have the power to bless people with your words and smiles.” -Sharon G. Larsen
14. “There’s music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls, tumbling, gushing.” – Julie Andrews
15. “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
16. “Watch waterfalls of pity roar, you feel to moan but unlike before, you discover that you’d just be one more person crying.” – Bob Dylan
17. “They say that people who live next to waterfalls don’t hear the water.” – Jonathan Safran Foer
18. “And down the waterfall, wherever it may take me, I know that life won’t break me when I come to call.” – Robbie Williams, “Angels”
19. “Waterfalls wouldn’t sound so melodious if there were no rocks in their way.” – Rishabh Gautam
20. “There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.” – John Ruskin
Best waterfall captions
21. A big waterfall makes you realize how tiny you and your problems are.
22. Deamflum (n.) – The dreamy and calm-like state experienced while listening to a natural waterfall.
23. Lessons from a waterfall – Keep moving, and you will eventually get over it.
24. Dreams are made of trails and waterfalls.
25. Always take the scenic route.
26. Let this waterfall wash over me.
27. We start in different places, but we all meet in the ocean.
28. You can call me an aqua-holic.
29. Water you up to today? I’m just chasing this waterfall.
30. Sitting here pondering the meaning of life.
Short waterfall captions
31. Home is where the water is.
32. The water is calling and I must go.
33. Life is like a waterfall – always moving.
34. Happily chasing waterfalls.
35. I am like a waterfall; wild and free.
36. Advice from a waterfall: Make a splash!
37. Waterfalls are nature’s waterslide.
38. There is nothing more magical than a waterfall.
39. Gone chasing waterfalls. Be back never.
40. Tripping on skies, sipping on waterfalls.
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Short waterfall quotes
41. “Life doesn’t flow backwards.” -Unknown
42. For an instant, silence, noisier than a waterfall.” – Salman Rushdie
43. “The waterfall winks at every passerby.” – Marty Rubin
44. “Water is the driver of nature.” – Leonardo Da Vinci
45. “Just let go – and fall like a little waterfall.” – Bob Ross
46. “Adopt the pace of nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
47. “Young leaves, the sound of a waterfall, heard from far and near.” – Yosa Buson
48. “Be careful crossing the waterfall, it’s a fatal spot.” – Karl Meltzer
49. “Tell your dream to the waterfall.” – Sellâle
50. “When water falls, it flies.” – Anthony T. Hincks
Funny waterfall captions
51. Water you doing today?
52. Where you lead, I will fall-ow.
53. Just go with the flow.
54. Water you looking at?
55. It’s all water over the falls
56. I’ve never mist a chance to see a waterfall.
57. I would caption this with a waterfall pun but that’s too mainstream.
58. Sorry, TLC. I chased the waterfall.
59. I’m not going to water this down for you.
60. “Canoe + waterfall = I don’t go camping anymore” – Demetri Martin
61. “In America, one sure sign of success is the presence of an unnecessary waterfall in a person’s yard.” – Demetri Martin
62. These waterfalls have me roaring with excitement.
63. I just heard a joke about a waterfall. It was a pour joke.
64. I really have to get my plumbing fixed.
65. It’s all downhill from here.
Romance and love waterfall quotes
66. “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
67. “I’m falling for you.” – Unknown
68. “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
69. “The fall of your hair is rushing through my head like elegant waterfalls repeatedly dancing down into an open riverbed.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
70. “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 Danticat
71. “Without the wetness of your love, the fragrance of your water, or the trickling sounds of your voice ― I shall always feel thirsty.” – Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem (2010)
72. “I am not here for calm waters anymore. I want to be known for my love for hurricanes.” – Nitya Prakash
73. “I used to believe that love was finding someone who would lead you through the deep water.” – Anne Hathaway
74. “There was only water. The ocean, the cold and her.” – Natalia Ćwiklińska, The Bride (2019)
75. “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, The Mountain Shadow (2015)
76. “It was more than just the gentle tumble of the waterfall, or the wind or the sound of birds. It was much, much more he knew. He looked about him and he knew he had found what he had been looking for.” ― Michael Delaware
77. “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
78. “When you are outpouring your emotion, it is like me trying to climb up a waterfall. To get to you. But if you are calm and have faith in me, I can sail right over to you. On the still waters of your soul.” – Kate McGahan
79. “I think love is the greatest force in the universe. It’s shapeless like water. It only takes the shape of things it becomes.” – Guillermo del Toro
80. “Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He talked about swimming as if it were a way of life.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (2012)
Inspirational waterfall quotes
81. “She’ll carry on through it all. She’s a waterfall.” – Unknown
82. “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 the 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
83. “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
84. “Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.” – Lao Tzu
85. “When life places stones in your path, be the water. A persistent drop of water will wear away even the hardest stone.” – Autumn Morning Star
86. “I am like a drop of water on a rock. After drip, drip, dripping in the same place, I begin to leave a mark, and I leave my mark in many people’s hearts.” – Rigoberta Menchu
87. “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
88. “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
89. “The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.” – Bruce Lee
90. “And when you hear the sound of the waterfall coming nearer and nearer, tidy up the boat, put on your best tie and hat, and smoke a cigar right up till the moment you go over. That’s a triumph.” – Ray Bradbury
Mindfulness waterfall quotes
91. “A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
92. “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.” – Benjamin F Sullivan
93. “My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives.” – Hedley Lamarr
94. “Look for yourself in the waterfall – still for just a moment before moving on again.” – Unknown
95. “Life is like a waterfall. It is always moving and there is always an uneven flow to it.” – Unknown
96. “When you’re young, there’s so much that you can’t take in. It’s pouring over you like a waterfall. When you’re older, it’s less intense, but you’re able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.” – Unknown
97. “It is life, I think, to watch the water. A man can learn so many things.” – Nicholas Sparks
98. “Water your roots so your soul can blossom” – Unknown
99. “A waterfall cannot be silent, just as the wisdom. When they speak, the voice of power speaks.” – Mehmet Murat ildan
Bonus waterfall quotes that I really love
100. “There is a hidden message in every waterfall. It says, if you are flexible, falling will not hurt you!” -Mehmet Murat ildan
101. “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
102. “There’s no better place to find yourself than sitting by a waterfall and listening to its music.” – Roland R Kemler
103. “Mist to mist drops to drops. For water thou art, and unto water shalt thou return.” – Kamand Kojouri
104. “Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress.” – Margaret Atwood
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