124 Red Quotes to Explore Depths of Your Passions and Emotions

Red, the color of love, hope, passion, intensity, and courage; has captured the human imagination for centuries. In literature, language, and culture, red continues to be a symbol of fervor, emotion, and vitality. Whether through fiery sunsets or powerful quotes, its impact on our perception and expression remains profound. In this post we have curated the best “Red Quotes”. Just as red ignites human senses, these quotes will ignite your imagination and encourage you to explore the depths of your passions and emotions. These quotes about red will tell you why this is one of the best colors to choose from, along with giving you some great ideas for fashion and captions.

Red Quotes

1. “Roses aren’t red, the detail is.” ~ Dominic Riccitello

2. “Red is the color of human creation, your blood and flesh is of red color.” ~ Invajy

3. “Nothing attracts attention like a red dress.” ~ Laura Bush

4. “Red lips like a living, laughing rose.” ~ Adela Florence Nicolson

5. “He tried to imagine the sound of the color red.” ~ Pete Hamill
6. “Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.” ~ Bill Blass
7. “The redness had seeped from the day and night was arranging herself around us. Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue black.” ~ Sue Monk Kidd
8. “Pink gives me love that would even make red blush.” ~ Anthony T. Hincks
9. “When in doubt, make a red painting.” ~ Kay WalkingStick
10. “Red lips are not so red as the stained stones kissed by the English dead.” ~ Wilfred Owen

Quotes about Red

11. “There is a shade of red for every woman.” ~ Audrey Hepburn
12. “Pink colors my world red!” ~ Anthony T. Hincks
13. “In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.” ~ Taylor Swift
14. “There is certainly a red for everyone.” ~ Christian Dior
15. “Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love!” ~ Kathryn Stockett
16. “As she always did on any really important day, Penelope Hayes wore red.” ~ Anna Godbersen, The Luxe
17. “Life is simple, it’s either cherry red or midnight blue.” ~ Lou Gramm
18. “Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.” ~ David Bowie
19. “Bet you don’t know why the sun sets red. You see, light is made up of lots of colors. And out of all those colors, red is the one that travels the farthest.” ~ Axel
20. “I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white.” ~ Terry Tempest Williams

Quotes on Color Red

21. “Red goes with everything and red goes with nothing.” ~ Chloe Thurlow
22. “When I haven’t any blue, I use red.” ~ Pablo Picasso
23. “Roses are red, violets are blue, I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.” ~ Oscar Levant
24. “He says I’m beautiful as a red tomato.” ~ Jeanne DuPrau
25. “Red protects itself. No color is as territorial. It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum.” ~ Derek Jarman
26. “Red is the first color of spring. It’s the real color of rebirth. Of beginning.” ~ Ally Condie
27. “Red has always been my color, because red stands out.” ~ Ravyn Lenae
28. “Red was the only color worthy of that name, the only true color.” ~ Michel Pastoureau
29. “Painters use red like spice.” ~ Michael Derek Elworthy
30. “Some people can’t see the color red. That doesn’t mean it isn’t there.” ~ Sue Grafton

Color Red Quotes about Fashion

31. “Never has it been inappropriate for a girl to wear a red dress.” ~ Caroline George, The Vestige
32. “When we put on a dress, we give it life; but in the red dress it is the opposite, it is not the dress that is given life, but the one who wears it!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
33. “I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can.” ~ Sylvia Plath
34. “Candy apple red is my favorite color. It’s a powerful color to wear. It’s always been that way I’ve always been really attracted to that color.” ~ Carly Rae Jepsen
35. “When in doubt, wear red.” ~ Bill Blass
36. “I want to be different. If everyone is wearing black, I want to be wearing red.” ~ Maria Sharapova
37. “I love it when a woman is wearing Red Lipstick, and her hair is combed back, so sensual and confident.” ~ Oribe
38. “It sounds crazy, but I promise you it’s true; wearing red lipstick really can change the course of a night out.” ~ Minnie Mortimer
39. “If you don’t like speaking much, wear red clothes; they will speak on behalf of you!” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
40. “She’s applying her lipstick; I’ve always believed that the universe invented the color red solely for Latinas.” ~ Junot Diaz

Red Quotes

41. “Red is a strong, happy, optimistic color, and I like having fun with it, you know? Like, when colors clash – I love that strangeness.” ~ Victoria Beckham
42. “The Amity exchange smiles. They are dressed comfortably in red or yellow. Every time I see them, they seem kind, loving, free.” ~ Veronica Roth, Divergent
43. “Red blood is just so hard to clean up” “You would know” I snap remembering Shade. “Because no matter how hard you try to hide it, I see it all over your hands” ~ Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
44. “A monster, some called her. But in the shadows, only said in whispers, she was an angel in red.” ~ Emory R. Frie, Enchanted Forest
45. “If hot red is for anger and rage, pink is the color of a soft burning – hot enough to light up the dark corners of sadness and grief, but cool enough to be tender, innocent, open.” ~ Ibi Zoboi, American Street
46. “Your veins are using up the redness of the world.” ~ Frank O’Hara, Meditations in an Emergency
47. “Wintering over geraniums with their pale green ginkgo leaves ─ they have not died, and neither has she, but the blooms are gone, and every part of her longs for red.” ~ Anne Fall, Rosa Scriptum
48. “Xander Harris: Hair. Red. Red is good. Fire engines are red. Porsche’s are red.” ~ Christopher Golden, Buffy the Vampire Slayer
49. “I always liked red. It’s a picker-upper.” ~ Nancy Reagan

Quotes about Red

51. “The spirit of arrogance most definitely makes you shine. It paints a bright red target on your own forehead.” ~ Criss Jami, Killosophy
52. “We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.” ~ Elton John
53. “I love bright red drinks, don’t you? They taste twice as good as any other color.” ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
54. “In marketing practices, red is used primarily to attract attention.” ~ Michel Pastoureau
55. “The red carpet can hide more than just blood stains.” ~ Anthony T. Hincks
56. “Red is one of the strongest colors, it’s blood, it has a power with the eye. That’s why traffic lights are red I guess, and stop signs as well… In fact I use red in all of my paintings.” ~ Keith Haring
57. “Designers want me to dress like spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red autumn.” ~ Marilyn Monroe
58. “Looking up at that starry sky gave him the creeps: it was too big, too black. It was all too possible to imagine it turning blood-red, all too possible to imagine a Face forming in lines of fire.” ~ Stephen King
59. “Red is uplifting.” ~ Jerry Lewis
60. “Any cat may stare into a fire and see red mice play.” ~ George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

Red Quotes about Love

61. “Loving him was red.” ~ Taylor Swift
62. “Love and a red rose can’t be hid.” ~ Thomas Holcroft
63. “Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.” ~ Paul Scherrer
64. “Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.” ~ Taylor Swift
65. “Red is the great clarifier bright and revealing. I can’t imagine becoming bored with red it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.” ~ Diana Vreeland
66. “Our love is like a red, red rose… and I am a little thorny.” ~ Jim Carrey
67. “Love is a spendthrift, leaves it arithmetic at home, is always in the red.” ~ Paul Scherrer
68. “With a smile that glowed Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue.” ~ John Milton
69. “I love getting dressed up for red carpet events and having my hair and makeup done professionally – that definitely helps with nerves of going down the red carpet.” ~ Jessica Ennis
70. “My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I’ve always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.” ~ Kim Elizabeth

Red Quotes

71. “The lesser grindstone stood alone there in the calm morning air, with a red upon it that the sun had never given, and would never take away.” ~ Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
72. “When I was out on the battlements it was cool and I could hardly hear them. I sat there quietly. I don’t know how long I sat. Then I turned round and saw the sky. It was red and all my life was in it.” ~ Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea
73. “Difficult choices, unlike red wine, rarely improve with age.” ~ Richard N. Haass
74. “Blood is blood and it’s all red. Show me what’s in your heart and in your eyes.” ~ James Frey
75. “I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it.” ~ Anne Carson, Autobiography Of Red
76. “Pink is just fancy red.” ~ Daphne
77. “Red leaves the other colors blushing with emotions.” ~ Anthony T. Hincks
78. “It takes many, many coats to cover the red. No matter what I do, it seeps right through, like the walls are bleeding.” ~ Jennifer Niven
79. “Blood on the ground. We dance with the burning fire in our soul. As we rise as RED as the dawn.” ~ Keziah Ruth D. Lingco
80. “In Asia, red is the color of joy; red is the color of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the color of mourning.” ~ Vincent Tan

Beautiful Red Quotes

81. “I love my red hair. It makes me spunkier.” ~ Lindsay Lohan
82. “I’m not a natural redhead, but I enjoy having red hair.” ~ Jane Levy
83. “Ask yourself why a red carpet is red. It could be any color.” ~ Jake Gyllenhaal
84. “The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.” ~ Alice Meynell, The Color Of Life
85. “In red, you feel naked even when you are dressed.” ~ Chloe Thurlow
86. “The red sun was pasted in the sky like a wafer.” ~ Stephen Crane
87. “I love red so much, I almost want to paint everything red.” ~ Alexander Calder
88. “We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don’t like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.” ~ Barack Obama
89. “As far as playing, I didn’t care who guarded me – red, yellow, black. I just didn’t want a white guy guarding me, because it’s disrespect to my game.” ~ Larry Bird
90. “The world tells lots of people the light is red. You have to trust yourself and say, ‘I think the light is green, and I’m going to keep doing this.” ~ Tamara Taylor

Passionate Red Quotes

91. “The shiny red color of the soles has no function other than to identify to the public that they are mine. I selected the color because it is engaging, flirtatious, memorable, and the color of passion.” ~ Christian Louboutin
92. “I’m in love with red. I think it’s such a passionate color. Every flag of every country pretty much has red in it. Its power, there’s no fence sitting with red. Either you love it or you don’t. I think it’s blood and strength and life. I do love red. I love all colors. Great shades of blue, you find them in nature. They are all magic.” ~ Bryan Batt
93. “More than any other colour, red is loaded for action.” ~ Robert Genn
94. “The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don’t do it unless you’re willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.” ~ Jim Harrison
95. “Arizona is gorgeous. The sunshine in Arizona is gorgeous red.” ~ Cecelia Bartoli
96. “So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red.” ~ Tim Vine
97. “That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.” ~ William H. Macy
98. “Red stimulates and excites your nerves, pulse rate and blood circulation, and lends energy to your entire system. When you are fatigued, lethargic or sluggish for any reason, red has an energizing influence.” ~ Tae Yun Kim
99. “Red red wine, you make me feel so grand / I feel a million dollar when you’re just in my hand.” ~ Neil Diamond
100. “When the only color is red sky in the morning. Everywhere I’m seeing red, red, red, red.” ~ Walker Kevin

Famous Red quotes

101. “I like the color red because it’s a fire. And I see myself as always being on fire.” ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
102. “The red carpet is a beautiful situation for people. I think everybody appreciates it and loves it and honors it. Nobody really acts a fool because they know this is a one-time thing.” ~ Snoop Dogg
103. “I think that red polka red dress is just iconic.” ~ Christian Siriano
104. “She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together.” ~ Kiera Cass
105. “I survived, carried on, glad to be like a weed, a wild red poppy, rooted in life.” ~ Marilyn Buck
106. “My lady’s presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.” ~ Henry Constable
107. “Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.” ~ Jean Rook
108. “It’s amazing what the sight of four gentlemen with red crosses on their backs can to injured players.” ~ Jon Champion
109. “Some gal would giggle and I’d get red, and some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head. I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.” ~ Johnny Cash
110. “White wine is like electricity. Red wine looks and tastes like a liquified beefsteak.” ~ James Joyce

Red Quotes

111. “Give me juicy autumnal fruit, ripe and red from the orchard.” ~ Walt Whitman
112. “I used to go with solid blue, but recently I’ve found that a mix of red and green is a better fit for my personality.” ~ Tichina Arnold
113. “I’m not into red carpet looks where it’s clear the woman wanted to look like a pretty, pretty princess.” ~ Mindy Kaling
114. “Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You’re sixteen, And ready for high school.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
115. “Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow.” ~ Wassily Kandinsky
116. “Red is associated with romance and blood, but not at the same time.” ~ Dov Davidoff
117. “Everything utilitarian needs a little red edge.” ~ Reno Dakota
118. “Let the colors of your ideas are red so that all can easily notice them! And what is red? Red is scream, red is power, red is assertion!” ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
119. “You can’t go wrong with the use of red; every painting should have red in it.” ~ George De Groat
120. “For I think of you, flung down brutal darkness / Crushed and red, with pale face. / I think of you, with your hair disordered and dripping. And myself, rising red from that embrace.” ~ Conrad Potter Aiken

More Red Quotes

121. “Red carpets and dressing up are a part of work that I enjoy less than some people.” ~ Sally Phillips
122. “The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.” ~ John Burroughs
123. “Rich in meaning, red was a color of great power and prestige in Renaissance Europe.” ~ Amy Butler Greenfield
124. “If I decide to make a coat red in the show, it’s not just red, I think: is it communist red? Is it cherry cordial? Is it ruby red? Or is it apple red? Or the big red balloon red?” ~ Lady Gaga

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