100+ Best Finland Quotes and Finland Instagram Captions

Best Finland Quotes

“Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How’d they get so rich? Because they’re free.” – P. J. O’Rourke

“I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.” – Floor Jansen

“Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He’s staring at your shoes instead of his own.” – Susan Cain

“I tried to learn the Finnish language, which is really, really, really hard, and I realized that if I want to really learn it, I need to move to Finland.” – Floor Jansen

“Finland is world-famous for its architects and decorators, who know how to produce beautiful effects in simple ways. On my first visit to Finland, I remember being invited into the living room of one of my host’s homes, and immediately thinking to myself, “This is the most beautiful room that I’ve ever seen!” – Jared Diamond

“In Sweden, we have what is called ‘The Finnish Disease.’ It consists of not talking much, or at all.” – Hannes Holm

“The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.” – Noam Chomsky

“I wondered if I might be, in some way, a bit Finnish myself. I don’t like noisy people, so does that make me Finnish, d’you think?” – James May

“Now is probably a good time to make my confession about Finland, our next destination in this Nordic odyssey: I think the Finns are fantastic. I can’t get enough of them. I would be perfectly happy for the Finns to rule the world. They get my vote, they’ve won my heart. If you ask me, they should just change the word ‘fantastic’ to ‘Finntastic.’ Helsinki? Heavensinki, more like.” – Michael Booth

“It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavor never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

Unique Finland Instagram Captions

I fell in love. His name is Helsinki.

Happiness is holding tickets that say Finland.

Everyone needs a little Finland in their life.

Somewhere between living and dreaming, there’s Finland.

There’s no time to be bored in a city as beautiful as Helsinki.

Falling in love with Finland one igloo at a time.

Dear Finland, I will never get over you.

Finland is my next stop.

I left my heart in Finland.

Finland is my cup of tea.

Funny Finland Puns for Instagram Captions

In a bad mood? Go praise somebody from Helsinki. That produces endorse Finns.

What do you say when you cross the border between Sweden and Finland? And across the Finnish line.

How do people from Finland org*sm? They Finnish.

I hear Finland doesn’t have takeout containers in restaurants… Because people always Finnish their meals.

If you don’t visit Helsinki your Scandinavian vacation remains un-Finnished.

The devil was sold a bunch of leaky fountain pens when visiting Turku, which used to be the capital of Finland. Now Hell’s Inky.

I read a study that sailing in Finland is mostly done by women. If a man takes the helm, they’re afraid that Helsinki.

Why does Nothern Finland have the best summer parties? Because their summer nights are lit.

I didn’t wear deodorant in the Finnish capital and now I smell stinki.

Since moving to Finland I’ve become addicted to winter sports. It started off with sledging which has finally lead to ski jumping. It’s a real slippery slope.

Short Quotes about Finland

“I love Finland. Finland is where Santa Claus is from.” – Sisqo

“I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland.” – Renny Harlin

“Oh, Finland, I miss Finland.” – Sisqo

“I have sung at Christmas many times in Finland, especially in churches.” – Tarja Turunen

“Finland is no utopia.” – Bernie Sanders

“I grew up in Finland, so it’s cold in Finland, we have ice rinks outdoors.” – Saara Aalto

“It’s very Finnish to think you can’t make it outside Finland.” – Saara Aalto

“No matter where you are in Finland, you’ll never be far from a sauna.” – Lonely Planet Finland

“In Finland and the U.K., you can’t predict the weather.” – Saara Aalto

Inspirational Quotes about Finland

“America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.” – Laurie Helgoe

“I might move to Finland, at least for a while, to learn the language a bit better, ’cause you don’t learn any language better than in the country itself.” – Floor Jansen

“The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.” – Harri Holkeri

“The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning – in common with their male counterparts – are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full.” – Tarja Halonen

“In Finland they are brilliant at ensuring no young person falls behind. From the day a child is born they are visited by health workers who assess their well-being and developmental. The health workers work with psychologists and speech therapists and aim to identify any problems at a very early stage.” – Liz Kendall

“Finland actually made Internet access a human right a while back. That was a clever thing of Finland. But that’s like the only positive thing I have seen in any country anywhere in the world regarding the Internet.” – Peter Sunde

“When I am disgusted by certain American politicians, I fantasize moving away to Finland – a country in which I have worked a little, and which I see as a pure blue and green place of unpolluted lakes, peaceful forests, and pristine social-democratic values.” – Martha Nussbaum

“In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation went into the Second World War and it united the Finnish nation, so I do not see any more wounds.” – Harri Holkeri

“Few countries have such an obsession with cars as Finland. The interest goes right down the scale, from watching Formula One to changing the oil in the old Datsun parked outside.” – Lonely Planet Finland

Quotes about Life in Finland

“Finnish is not a language, it is a way of sitting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.” – Paavo Haavikko

“When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That’s just the way it was.” – Teemu Selanne

“Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.” – Teemu Pukki

“I am extremely proud of Finland. Here a child from a poor family can get a higher education and reach many places in life. A cashier can become even a prime minister.” – Sanna Marin

“You’re already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don’t call their hockey team the “Espoo Blues” for nothing.” – Phil Schwarzmann

“Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I’m used to having people around me all the time who know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.” – Floor Jansen

“In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do.” – Renny Harlin

“I was always the flamboyant one and the one who wanted to be really bubbly and wanted to perform in a big way, but it’s not very typical in Finland.” – Saara Aalto

“Finnish women are dominant,’ Roman Schatz enthused. ‘Traditionally, on Finnish farms, the woman was chief of everything under the roof, including the males, and the men were there to take care of everything outside. No Finnish man would ever decide anything without consulting his wife.” – Michael Booth

Finland Travel Quotes

“To experience the northern forest in the raw, I went to northern Finland and Lapland, traveling on horseback, and sleeping on reindeer skins in the traditional open-fronted Finnish laavu. I ate elk heart, reindeer, and lingonberries, and tried out spruce resin: the chewing gum of the Stone Age.” – Michelle Paver

“My favorite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet – something I don’t get very often.” – Christopher Lee

“Finland’s great swaths of protected forests and fells make it one of Europe’s prime hiking destinations. “ – Lonely Planet Finland

“The best region goes first: Southern Finland. Then the second best: Central Finland. Then the reindeer herders and forest people take a week off from unemployment and go last: Northern Finland.” – Phil Schwarzmann

“I was researching amazing spaces across the world and one project blew my mind – the glass igloos of Finland. There are 65 of these structures set in 1200 acres of pine forest.” – George Clarke

“This country of Finland is a windy place, the wind blows from each direction. You have to have a sturdy house here and in the meanest weather even plow with a fur coat on.” – Aaro Hellaakoski

“The reason I love Finland is that its surface is like its people – frozen on the surface but when the ice melts, no one has seen a more beautiful glow.” – Alisa Martikainen

“I have to live in Finland. I could never fully leave this country; it would end me and mean the death of my art.” – Jean Sibelius

“What you can do in Finland? Well, in summer there’s fishing and shagging. And in winter the fishing is bad.” – Kimi Räikkönen

“People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that’s great, but it’s the one language I can’t speak.” – Nico Rosberg

Famous Finnish Proverbs

Work will not run out by working.

The morning is wiser than the evening.

The tender winds of February will be paid in March.

An hour of thinking is more expensive than an hour of working.

Who asks for the road doesn’t get lost

Silence is heard better than shout.

The forest answers in the same way one shouts at it.

All roses aren’t beautiful and all flowers don’t smell.

The pot blames the kettle, yet both have a black side.

All the years are full of learning.

You must live cool some time, even if you’ll beg the rest of your life.

Quotes by Famous Finnish

“You can only get over your fears if you attack them head-on.” – Mika Hakkinen

“We are all now on a ship and going through the waves of the big sea. We were born with struggles and once die with strain. But what is in between, let that be warmth, love! When two join together when it snows, the going gets easier too.” – Eino Leino

“Driving is the only thing I love about F1.” – Kimi Raikkonen

“When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France – in Finland people don’t speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.” – Kaija Saariaho

“If I could throw my phone away, I would probably do it. It’s always on silent, and I don’t like when it rings and people are calling. We could live without those things in the past when we just had a phone on the street somewhere, on the corner or at the house. I have no interest in telling all the people what I do every day and where I am.” – Kimi Raikkonen

“It is cheerful to travel when you can say anything, and no one will understand what is going on.” – Mika Waltari

“It is good to try to understand everything, but not to accept.” – Sylvi Kekkonen

“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.” – Tove Jansson

“Without crazy dreams, no wise decisions are born.” – Tommy Tabermann

“Be yourself. If you try to be someone else, it won’t work. Whatever you do, you are not going to make everyone happy.” – Kimi Raikkonen

Quotes about the Northern Lights

“The Northern lights painted the sky with stories we hadn’t heard of yet. We leaned back, letting the colors wash over us and paint new dreams for us to follow.” – Robyn Petrik

“When I look at the northern lights … I see our ancestors dancing around a sacred fire, lighting the way for us when it’s time for us to cross over from this physical world and join them.” – Molly Larkin

“The Northern Lights rise like a kiss to the sea.” – Arthur Rimbaud

“She looked directly up into the Northern Lights and she wondered if those cold-burning specters might not draw her breath, her very soul, out of her chest and into the stars.” – Eowyn Ivey

“I tried to imagine myself a long time ago, in the lands where these stories were first told, during the long winter nights perhaps, under the glow of the northern lights…” – Neil Gaiman

“A forest fire was making its way along the tinderbox ridges above them, flaring and shimmering against the overcast like the northern lights. Cold as it was, he stood there a long time. The color of it moved something in him long forgotten. Make a list. Recite a litany. Remember.” – Cormac McCarthy

“There is witnessing the Northern Lights, and then there is seeing the incredible aurora whilst upside downscaling a moonlit glacier!” – Becky Pemberton

“Like going on safari, whale watching, or fly-fishing, seeing the aurora is a beguiling marriage of sheer luck and the effort you make to be in the best place at the optimum time. Call up your favorite concierge if you want, chuck the credit card at your A-list travel agent — honestly, up there in Cosmos Central, they just don’t give a shooting star.” – Nigel Tisdall

“I am guided by the northern lights in my mind I have yet to see.” – Lize Bard

More Finland quotes

“Many items the skunk had were of the highest quality including bathroom vanities and hand and paw washing areas constructed by Finland’s well-known designer, Helsinki.” – J.S. Mason

“I haven’t been baptized. My dad’s not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual – she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I’m proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I’m still looking for my god.” – Ville Valo

“Helsinki isn’t all that bad. It’s a very nice city, and it’s cold really only in wintertime.” – Linus Torvalds

“Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive!” – Trip Hawkins

“Helsinki may not be as cold as you make it out to be, but California is still a lot nicer. I don’t remember the last time I couldn’t walk around in shorts all day.” – Linus Torvalds

“If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the ’70s that I would end up in L.A. and to describe that journey, those 17 years with the philharmonic and building the hall and this and that, I would have said, “This is a fairy tale of the first order.” – Esa-Pekka Salonen

“They say money can’t buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Helsinki – which is kinda the same.” – Unknown

“In Finland, we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex.” – Harri Holkeri

“Turku challenges Helsinki’s cultural pre-eminence with cutting-edge galleries, museums and restaurants, and music festivals that electrify the summer air.” – Lonely Planet

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