101 Inspiring Coffee Quotes

There's something magical about the aroma of freshly brewed coffee that has the power to awaken the senses and inspire the soul. For many, coffee isn't just a beverage; it's a ritual, a tradition, and a source of comfort and creativity. Across the globe, countless writers, thinkers, and everyday enthusiasts have expressed their deep connection to this beloved drink through words. In this blog post, we're diving into a vibrant world of inspiration with a curated collection of the top 101 coffee quotes. Whether you're seeking a cozy pick-me-up or looking to fuel your creative spark, these quotes are sure to resonate with coffee lovers everywhere. So, grab your favorite mug, pour yourself a steaming cup of joe, and get ready to explore the rich tapestry of thoughts and emotions that coffee has stirred in its admirers throughout the years.

1. “Who shall I shoot? You choose. Now, listen very carefully: where's your coffee? You've got coffee, haven't you? C'mon, everyone's got coffee! Spill the beans!” - Terry Pratchett

2. “It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.” - Malcolm X

3. “But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and fascinating. In the same way there are certain places, surrounded by a halo of romance, to which the inevitable disillusionment you experience on seeing them gives a singular spice. You had expected something wholly beautiful and you get an impression which is infinitely more complicated than any that beauty can give you. It is the weakness in the character of a great man which may make him less admirable but certainly more interesting. Nothing had prepared me for Honolulu...” - W. Somerset Maugham

4. “Just the other day, I was in my neighborhood Starbucks, waiting for the post office to open. I was enjoying a chocolatey cafe mocha when it occurred to me that to drink a mocha is to gulp down the entire history of the New World. From the Spanish exportation of Aztec cacao, and the Dutch invention of the chemical process for making cocoa, on down to the capitalist empire of Hershey, PA, and the lifestyle marketing of Seattle's Starbucks, the modern mocha is a bittersweet concoction of imperialism, genocide, invention, and consumerism served with whipped cream on top.” - Sarah Vowell

5. “I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.” - Abigail Reynolds

6. “Sure some medical experts say coffee could be a health hazard, but they obviously never built a web site before!” - Geoff Blake

7. “Somehow, the Good Lord don't want to see no man start a cold morning with just black coffee.” - Robert Newton Peck

8. “Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.” - Terry Pratchett

9. “It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.” - Dave Barry

10. “As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?” - Cassandra Clare

11. “Adventure in life is good; consistency in coffee even better.” - Justina Chen Headley

12. “The philosopher Sir James Mackintosh had said that the powers of a man's mind were proportionate to the quantity of coffee he drank, and Voltaire had knocked back fifty cups of it a day, so Ianto reckoned there had to be something in it. And saving Cardiff from the kinds of things that came through the Rift called for quick, inspired thinking, so Ianto took it upon himself to make sure the coffee was good. Ianto Jones, saving the world with a dark roast.” - Phil Ford

13. “Bob poured and brought two cups over, hardly rattling them on the saucers. "Drink up. This should restore your inner bitch." Bailey scowled at him. "See?" he said. "It's working already, and all you've had is fumes.” - Mark All

14. “I don't really like coffee, she said, but I don't really like it when my head hits my desk when I fall asleep either. ” - Brian Andreas

15. “The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce.” - Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

16. “The drinking of coffee is an absolute sin! Our Glorious Prophet did not partake of coffee because he knew it dulled the intellect, caused ulcers, hernia and sterility; he understood that coffee was nothing but the Devil's ruse.” - Orhan Pamuk

17. “I like my coffee black, my beer from Germany, wine from Burgundy, the darker, the better. I like my heroes complicated and brooding, James Dean in oiled leather, leaning on a motorcycle. You know the color. ("Ode to Chocolate")” - Barbara Crooker

18. “Looks like I missed a party. Good. I wasn’t really in the mood to off demons this evening. Haven’t had my coffee yet. (Jared)You drink coffee? (Stryker)No, but it was my pathetic attempt at humor. (Jared)” - Sherrilyn Kenyon

19. “Pretty quickly, I stopped seeing the company as an engine of community. Instead, I saw it as a mythmaker offering only an illusion of belonging and meeting its customers' desire for connections in form, maybe, but surely not in substance. Once I came to this conclusion, I started to dig deeper into the company's other promises--great working conditions, musical discovery, fair treatment of farmer, and concern for the environment. Every time I went excavating, the stories turned out to be more complex, more heavily edited, and more ambiguous than I had first thought. Each time, it became clear that Starbucks fulfilled its many promises only in the thinnest, most transitory of ways and that people's desires went largely unfulfilled.” - Bryant Simon

20. “والقهوة يجب أن يقدّمها لك شخصٌ ما. القهوةُ كالوَرْد، فالورد يقدّمه لك سِواك، ولا أحدَ يقدّم ورداً لنفسه. وإن أعددتها لنفسك فأنت لحظتها في عزلة حرة بلا عاشق أو عزيز، غريبٌ في مكانك. وإن كان هذا اختياراً فأنت تدفع ثمن حريتك، وإن كان اضطراراً فأنت في حاجةٍ إلى جرس الباب.” - مريد البرغوثي

21. “This coffee falls into your stomach, and straightway there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move like the battalions of the Grand Army on the battlefield, and the battle takes place. Things remembered arrive at full gallop, ensign to the wind. The light cavalry of comparisons deliver a magnificent deploying charge, the artillery of logic hurry up with their train and ammunition, the shafts of wit start up like sharpshooters. Similes arise, the paper is covered with ink; for the struggle commences and is concluded with torrents of black water, just as a battle with powder.” - Honoré de Balzac

22. “Me invitó a café, la nueva infusión que, procedente de Turquía, se hace cada vez más popular y causa furor en toda Europa. [...] Es un líquido intensamente negro, muy aromático, con un sabor amargo que puede ser amortiguado añadiéndole azúcar.” - Antonio Cavanillas De Blas

23. “I brought you some coffee.” he held out the cup but she waved it away.“I hate that stuff. It tastes like feet.”At that he smiled. “How would you know what feet taste like?”“I just know.”-Luke and Clary, pg.209-” - Cassandra Clare

24. “Come on, don't you ever stop and smell the coffee?” - Justina Chen Headley

25. “Wait!"What?" I lowered my cup hastily, wondering if maybe there was a stray hair, or worse, a newly boiled bug inside my cup.You got to smell it first. It's the proper way to cup coffee."Cup coffee?"Taste it."What? Are you the coffee police or something?” - Justina Chen Headley

26. “There are those who love to get dirty and fix things. They drink coffee at dawn, beer after work. And those who stay clean, just appreciate things. At breakfast they have milk and juice at night. There are those who do both, they drink tea.” - Gary Snyder

27. “It's over," Keelie said.Too bad. But I want you to know, I will always love you."She narrowed her eyes and said, "When you look at me and say that, are you thinking of Dolly Parton or Whitney Houston?"Burt Reynolds," he said.She nearly spit out her coffee when she laughed, then she said, "That almost makes me want to try again.” - Becky Cochrane

28. “American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100degrees centigrade in plastic thermos cups, usually obligatory in railroadstations for purposes of genocide, whereas coffee made with an Americanpercolator, such as you find in private houses or in humble luncheonettes,served with eggs and bacon, is delicious, fragrant, goes down like purespring water, and afterwards causes severe palpitations, because one cupcontains more caffeine than four espressos.” - Umberto Eco

29. “He mulled that over. "Sheriff Connally woulda let us shoot 'em."I reached over and took his coffee away from him. "Yep. Lucian probably would have done the job himself, but we're living in more enlightened times." I drained his cup and handed it back with a smile. "Ain't it grand?” - Craig Johnson

30. “Police work wouldn't be possible without coffee," Wallander said."No work would be possible without coffee."They pondered the importance of coffee in silence.” - Henning Mankell

31. “Mercy," he mumbled. "What the hell did you do to my French Roast?” - Patricia Briggs

32. “Black as night, sweet as sin.” - Neil Gaiman

33. “What do you want?""Just coffee. Black - like my soul.” - Cassandra Clare

34. “Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze? ” - Jean Kerr

35. “Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page.” - Roman Payne

36. “It doesn't matter where you're from - or how you feel... There's always peace in a strong cup of coffee.” - Gabriel Bá

37. “Never say no to coffee” - Cesar

38. “A morning coffee is my favorite way of starting the day, settling the nerves so that they don't later fray.” - Marcia Carrington

39. “I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now.” - Louisa May Alcott

40. “You wanna-I dunno-get coffee or something sometime?"Justin smiled "Not coffee. But yes.""Not Coffee it is, then.""Yes, Not Coffee.” - David Levithan

41. “The challenge lies in knowing how to bring this sort of day to a close. His mind has been wound to a pitch of concentration by the interactions of the office. Now there are only silence and the flashing of the unset clock on the microwave. He feels as if he had been playing a computer game which remorselessly tested his reflexes, only to have its plug suddenly pulled from the wall. He is impatient and restless, but simultaneously exhausted and fragile. He is in no state to engage with anything significant. It is of course impossible to read, for a sincere book would demand not only time, but also a clear emotional lawn around the text in which associations and anxieties could emerge and be disentangled. He will perhaps only ever do one thing well in his life.For this particular combination of tiredness and nervous energy, the sole workable solution is wine. Office civilisation could not be feasible without the hard take-offs and landings effected by coffee and alcohol.” - Alain De Botton

42. “After a geological epoch passed in which single-celled organisms evolved into talk show hosts, Mr. Coffee was still holding out on me.” - Darynda Jones

43. “Stencil had called from a Hungarian coffee shop on York Avenue known as Hungarian Coffee Shop” - Thomas Pynchon

44. “There has never been a 'war on drugs'! In our history we can only see an ongoing conflict amongst various drug users – and producers. In ancient Mexico the use of alcohol was punishable by death, while the ritualistic use of mescaline was highly worshipped. In 17th century Russia, tobacco smokers were threatened with mutilation or decapitation, alcohol was legal. In Prussia, coffee drinking was prohibited to the lower classes, the use of tobacco and alcohol was legal.” - Sebastian Marincolo

45. “I cleaned the shit off my pink high-tops and drove home, stopping for an espresso at the coffeehouse across from the college. Men and women were hunched over copies of Jean Paul Sartre and writing in their journals. Most wore the thin-rimmed tortoiseshell glasses favored by intellectuals. Their clothes were faded to a precisely fashionable degree; you can buy them that way from catalogs now, new clothes processed to look old. The intellectuals looked at me in my overalls the way such people inevitably look at farmers. I dumped a lot of sugar in my espresso and sipped it delicately at a corner table near the door. I looked at them the way farmers look at intellectuals.” - Mary Rose O'Reilley

46. “Tea is certainly as much of a social drink as coffee, and more domestic, for the reason that the teacup hours are the family hours."” - Arthur Gray

47. “Coffee first. Schemes later.” - Leanna Renee Hieber

48. “I don't drink coffee I take tea my dearI like my toast done on one side ..."(Englishman in New York)” - Sting

49. “Want coffee?" I asked, as I headed that way."It's three thirty in the morning.""Okay. Want coffee?” - Darynda Jones

50. “I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.” - Alastair Reynolds

51. “I sipped my own coffee, heavy on the sugar and cream, trying to make up for the late work the night before. Caffeine and sugar, the two basic food groups.” - Laurell K. Hamilton

52. “Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.” - Lauren Oliver

53. “I ordered my favorite drink; vanilla iced blended coffee with whipped cream and caramel sauce on top. The whipped cream and caramel sauce were the best. Usually when no one was watching, I would lick the inside of the lid to get every last drop of the addictive syrup. Once, my dad caught me doing this and started laughing. I'd gotten caramel plastered over my nose. If Colt had ever seen me do this, I would never live it down. Glancing around, I indulged shamelessly and grinned." -Cheyenne” - Lisa Wiedmeier

54. “Coffee and chocolate—the inventor of mocha should be sainted.” - Cherise Sinclair

55. “This is like a cookie, it tastes like a cookie having sex with a doughnut.” - Daniel Handler

56. “Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.” - David Lynch

57. “Coffee, unless it is very good and made by somebody else, is pretty intolerable at any time.” - Iris Murdoch

58. “The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.” - Sir James Mackintosh

59. “Just coffee. Black—like my soul.” - Cassandra Clare

60. “For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. Like a symphony, coffee's power rests in the hands of a few individuals who orchestrate its appeal. So much can go wrong during the journey from soil to cup that when everything goes right, it is nothing short of brilliant! After all, coffee doesn't lie. It can't. Every sip is proof of the artistry -- technical as well as human -- that went into its creation.” - Howard Schultz

61. “Denn eine Sache ist, daß der Kaffee gut ist, eine andere, daß man sich das nicht ohne weiteres als selbstverständlich anmerken lassen darf.” - Karin Boye

62. “Oh and P.S.? I am in dire need of more coffee. Industrial strength.""But we're going to sleep soon," I say."I know." Laila shudders. "Addiction is a bitch.” - Susane Colasanti

63. “There are three intolerable things in life - cold coffee, lukewarm champagne, and overexcited women...” - Orson Welles

64. “Whoever had opened that first Starbucks in Seattle should be shot.” - Virna DePaul

65. “I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.” - Jim Al-Khalili

66. “A guy's gotta live, you know, gotta make his way and find his meaning in life and love, and to do that he needs coffee, he needs coffee and coffee and coffee.” - Libba Bray

67. “She didn't know what Liam made his coffee with, but it had to be magical sparkles and crack beans, because it was the most delicious stuff she'd ever tasted.” - Rachel Caine

68. “What the hell makes you smart?" I asked."I wouldn't go for coffee with you.""Listen - I wouldn't ask you.""That," she replied, "is what makes you stupid.” - Erich Segal

69. “I decline the coffee. I don't drink it, because no matter how much sugar I put into it, it still tastes like ass-water to me. Maybe it's because my taste buds are so desensitized to sweet that anything not comprised of at least ninety percent sugar tastes wrong” - Katja Millay

70. “The truth of the matter is, that most English people don't know how to make tea anymore either, and most people drink cheap instant coffee instead, which is a pity, and gives Americans the impression that the English are just generally clueless about hot stimulants.” - Douglas Adams

71. “He liked the idea of coffee quite a lot—a warm drink that gave you energy and had been for centuries associated with sophisticates and intellectuals. But coffee itself tasted to him like caffeinated stomach bile.” - John Green

72. “They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses after business hours to talk of work just started or magazines unpublished, and even to lay modest plans for the future. Modestly they were beginning to write poems worth the trouble of reading to their friends over coffee cups. Modestly they were rebelling once more.” - Malcolm Cowley

73. “They can kill the Kennedys. Why can't they make a cup of coffee that tastes good?” - John Swartzwelder

74. “We drank our coffee the Russian way. That is to say we had vodka before it and vodka afterwards.” - Philip Sington

75. “The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness.” - Isra

76. “Only an idiot would rely on the energy of a bean or a leaf to stay awake throughout the day.” - Tahereh Mafi

77. “And thus Charles found himself wandering around a hotel, trailing federal agents as he held a cardboard coffee cup holder in each hand, instead of out killing misbehaving werewolves.” - Patricia Briggs

78. “I need coffee to deal with this, and I’m not getting decaf.” - Matthew Arnold Stern

79. “Nick drank the coffee, the coffee according to Hopkins. The coffee was bitter. Nick laughed. It made a good ending to the story. His mind was starting to work. He knew he could choke it because he was tired enough. He spilled the coffee out of the pot and shook the grounds loose into the fire. He lit a cigarette and went inside the tent. He took off his shoes and trousers, sitting on the blankets, rolled the shoes up inside the trousers for a pillow and got in between the blankets.Out through the front of the tent he watched the glow of the fire when the night wind blew on it. It was a quiet night. The swamp was perfectly quiet. Nick stretched under the blanket comfortably. A mosquito hummed close to his ear. Nick sat up and lit a match. The mosquito was on the canvas, over his head. Nick moved the match quickly up to it. The mosquito made a satisfactory hiss in the flame. The match went out. Nick lay down again under the blankets. He turned on his side and shut his eyes. He was sleepy. He felt sleep coming. He curled up under the blanket and went to sleep.” - Ernest Hemingway

80. “We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche.” - Dean Koontz

81. “We look up to see if it is day or night. If stars burn cool and moon does shine, we take to smoke divine and wine. If breath of sun does belch its heat, we boil coffee and prepare to eat.” - Roman Payne

82. “Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

83. “A smoke, a book, a cup of coffee. These are the little things that get us through this sometimes weary world and all the rainy days.” - R.M. Engelhardt

84. “How are you feeling?""Coffee.” - Tiffany Reisz

85. “Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.” - Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord

86. “You need some coffee, don't you?""Yes, I've only had a gallon.” - John Grisham

87. “I don't know where my ideas come from. I will admit, however, that one key ingredient is caffeine. I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.” - Gary Larson

88. “Insomniacs should not be forced to exist in a realm with reflective glass. From the first look I’m boxed in a prism, rainbows charming the other dark-circled self into sharing my prison. One eye turns on the other, each accusing the other of being responsible for an appearance oddly elfin, before exiting head and bouncing like lottery balls through the mirror walls and then drifting up and out the open and unguarded Well of the Wyrd. There, everyone with mirrors and mushrooms is waiting for me, faded and dissolved into giggles.” - Amanda Sledz

89. “Coffee is far more than a beverage. It is an invitation to life, disguised as a cup of warm liquid. It's a trumpet wakeup call or a gentle rousing hand on your shoulder ... Coffee is an experience, an offer, a rite of passage, a good excuse to get together.” - Nichole Johnson

90. “The seasonal urge is strong in poets. Milton wrote chiefly in winter. Keats looked for spring to wake him up (as it did in the miraculous months of April and May, 1819). Burns chose autumn. Longfellow liked the month of September. Shelley flourished in the hot months. Some poets, like Wordsworth, have gone outdoors to work. Others, like Auden, keep to the curtained room. Schiller needed the smell of rotten apples about him to make a poem. Tennyson and Walter de la Mare had to smoke. Auden drinks lots of tea, Spender coffee; Hart Crane drank alcohol. Pope, Byron, and William Morris were creative late at night. And so it goes.” - Helen Bevington

91. “I'm not a purist. Coffee drinking minus cream and sugar is an acquired taste. I'm still not sure it isn't like telling chefs to dispense with spices in cooking.” - Kevin Sinnott

92. “I'll know coffee works without cream and sugar when I see people buying unsweetened bakers chocolate for Valentine's Day.” - Kevin Sinnott

93. “People assume because I'm a coffee expert I drink lots of coffee. I can't. It takes me half an hour to brew my perfect cup. Do the math. I simply don't have time to drink more.” - Kevin Sinnott

94. “I'm a coffee expert. I'm not a medical expert, but I play one on TV. - on Oprah Winfrey interview” - Kevin Sinnott

95. “I never said I liked coffee better than sex. I said I'd had it more.” - Kevin Sinnott

96. “Coffee is a warm drink that fosters friendship and tastes great. What more is there to life?” - Kevin Sinnott

97. “Writing Cave means it's Coffee O'Clock...Who am I kidding? It's always Coffee O'Clock!” - Tammy-Louise Wilkins

98. “People like to cry over spilled milk, but I cry every time I spill my coffee.” - Anthony Liccione

99. “Texting and phone calls, fireworks, blends, café au lait, and music. Yesterday's television. Work and beer. The neighbor's dog, or those strange flowers, the way it smells at Maisen. Those ordinary things I talk about with you. With you... I want to talk about love with you.” - Tomoko Yamashita

100. “The only time I drink milk is when I drink coffee. I make love the same way—contributing 2% as I just sort of lay there.
” - Dark Jar Tin Zoo

101. “Many people claim coffee inspires them, but, as everybody knows, coffee only makes boring people even more boring.” - Balzac