Happy Holi 2026: Quotes that perfectly describe the essence of Holi

Holi is one of India's biggest festivals. It's celebrated across the country with cheer and delight. There are many reasons it is celebrated. It marks the end of the season of spring and the beginning of summer; it's a festival showing how purity and faith prevail over evil and it's a festival that shows that
beauty goes beyond appearances, and one's colour doesn't affect that.

Holi is most commonly described as the festival of colours though. It is celebrated by playing with coloured powder and coloured water, smearing your loved ones with it or soaking them in play. After the games are over one tends to dress colourfully too.

Colours are often used for symbolism in literature, and sometimes authors take time to appreciate the diversity and beauty colours bring to life. Here are some quotes on colour from literature:

“Let me, O let me bathe my soul in colours; let me swallow the sunset and drink the rainbow.”
― Khalil Gibran

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“Don’t despise people based on their colour, ethnicity or creed. God loves variety, So, live with it.”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Those who have darkness in their minds turn their bodies into darkness as well! Life is colourful; be like a rainbow, use every colour! Don’t get stuck in one colour, be colourful! Black, red, yellow, green, let all the colours be your colours! Those who have colourful minds will have colourful bodies as well!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

The darkness behind my closed eyelids was like the cloud-covered sky, but the grey was somewhat deeper. Every few minutes, someone would come and paint over the grey with a different-textured grey – one with a touch of gold or green or red. I was impressed with the variety of greys that existed. Human beings were so strange. All you had to do was sit still for ten minutes, and you could see this amazing variety of greys.”
― Haruki Murakami

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“Love is like dried flowers sometimes. Even though you watch the petals shrink and change colour, you cannot help treasuring them”
― Munia Khan

“Colours are nature gone wild.”
― Raheel Farooq

“If you keep keep colouring within the boxes and writing on the lines, you may never be able to do something remarkable. Break your spirit free to explore.”
― Bernard Kelvin Clive


“Imagine the world as a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw each of us. Adding a shade lighter and darker with each interaction. None would be black or white, either purely absorbing all, or reflecting each. #ColourMeSpotless”
― Nikhil Sharda

“The relationship between the soul and the body is of one life and that is, perhaps , the longest relationship one can have . Colour it with as much love as possible”
― Neelam Saxena Chandra

“When the colours speak, close your mouth tight and open your eyes wide!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We colour the world,
Not with the darkness of our pasts,
But with the rainbow of our hope.”
― Jenim Dibie

“It was a light which gave solidity to everything and drew colour out from the heart of objects.”
― V.S. Naipaul


“How many times have your true colours faded just because the world was colour blind.”
― Jenim Dibie

“The beauty of your passion is in the colours of your belief.”
― Israelmore Ayivor,