I am filled my rosy blooms in my heart, a soft birdsong in my mind as I make this post. Cottagecore is a name given to something that has existed for years ― the desire to be one with nature, revel in her extraordinary beauty, and live with a belief in magic. I love cottagecore.
It’s something that deeply connects with me. Just yesterday I went twirling around a mountain’s slopes until the cacophony of the city disappeared and became twinkling lights. High clouds became a bushy blanket I could walk on and only the chatter of insects could be heard. There, I felt free and me.
That’s how Cottagecore quotes will make you feel as they are all about believing and seeing the magic that we live in, going closer to it, and letting it become our home. You’ll find quotes from Anne of Green Gables, Little Women, The Secret Garden, and more ― the books that live and breathe cottagecore. Have a beautiful stroll among this delicate knit of words!
Cottagecore Quotes
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“I want to go about like the light-footed goats.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“When nighttime came, the rocking chairs creaked. Waves lulled the girl and her cottage to sleep.”
― Kelly Jordan
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them.”
― Jane Austen
“We gather stones never knowing what they’ll mean. Some to throw, some to make a diamond ring.”
― Taylor Swift
“Books make people quiet, yet they are so loud.”
― Nnedi Okorafor
“Flowers are made to bloom in the sun and not to be shut up in an apron.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.”
― Louisa May Alcott
“All things great are wound up with all things little.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The happiest of all things is when an old friend comes and greets us as in former times; the heart is comforted with the assurance that some day everything that we have loved will be given back”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
“When I felt like I was an old cardigan under someone’s bed, you put me on and said I was your favorite.”
― Taylor Swift
“Look at that sea, girls — all silver and shadow and vision of things not seen. We couldn’t enjoy its loveliness anymore if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Trees and people used to be good friends.”
― My Neighbour Totoro
“Let’s enjoy the beautiful things we can see, my dear, and not think about those we cannot.”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“Dear old world’, she murmured, ‘you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
“Everything seems asleep, and yet going on all the time. It is a goodly
life that you lead, friend; no doubt the best in the world, if only you are
strong enough to lead it!”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“Which would you rather be if you had the choice–divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Everything is made out of Magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett
“The moon, serene and detached in a cloudless sky, did what she could, though so far off, to help them in their quest; till her hour came and she sank earthwards reluctantly, and left them, and mystery once more held field and river.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“O how beautiful, look at the crimson snow! And up there on the rocks there are ever so many roses!”
― Johanna Spyri, Heidi
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t you just love poetry that gives you a crinkly feeling up and down your back?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Independence is all very well, but we animals never allow our friends to make fools of themselves beyond a certain limit.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage.”
― Jane Austen
“I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I’ve never been able to believe it. I don’t believe a rose WOULD be as nice if it was called a thistle or a skunk cabbage.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“It’s my world, and I don’t want any other. What it hasn’t got is not worth having, and what it doesn’t know is not worth knowing.”
― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
“The earth laughs in flowers.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“All I want is a dress with puffy sleeves.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“Please picture me
In the trees
I hit my peak at seven feet
In the swing
Over the creek
I was too scared to jump in
But I, I was high in the sky
With Pennsylvania under me
Are there still beautiful things?”
― Taylor Swift
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through.”
― The Wind Rises
“The world calls them its singers and poets and artists and storytellers; but they are just people who have never forgotten the way to fairyland.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“For every tale carved in rock, there are more inscribed on autumn leaves or woven into spider webs.”
― Erin Morgenstern
“I’m so sick of people saying that love is all a woman is fit for.”
― Little Women
“Wouldn’t it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I want to stand by the river in my finest dress. I want to sing, strong and hard, and stomp my feet with a hundred others so that the waters hum with our happiness. I want to dance for the renewal of the world.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer
“All good things are wild and free.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t try to make me grow up before my time…”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“I’ve got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“I love a book that makes me cry.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I am sure there is Magic in everything, only we have not sense enough to get hold of it and make it do things for us”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
― John Lubbock
“But really, Marilla, one can’t stay sad very long in such an interesting world, can one?”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“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
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Say the word ‘cottage,’ and it evokes a modest, charmingly imperfect, whimsical home tucked among raucously blooming flowers.” — Ann Zimmerman
“A forest bird never wants a cage.”
― Henrik Ibsen
“It was the sweetest, most mysterious-looking place any one could imagine. The high walls which shut it in were covered with the leafless stems of climbing roses which were so thick that they were matted together.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Nothing in the world is quite as adorably lovely as a robin when he shows off and they are nearly always doing it.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“I want to do something splendid…something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead. I don’t know what, but I’m on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“It was November–the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables
“And the secret garden bloomed and bloomed and every morning revealed new miracles.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
“Love is a great beautifier.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“It made her think that it was curious how much nicer a person looked when he smiled.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
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