100+ Birthday Instagram Captions and Quotes | North Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee Photographer

What better way to celebrate my birthday than with a roundup of the best birthday Instagram captions and quotes?! That’s right, today marks another trip around the sun for yours truly. I also officially closed on my house today—talk about an incredible birthday gift! I’m entering this new year of life feeling grateful for where I’m at and excited for what’s next. Let’s jump into the top birthday captions and quotes for Instagram so I don’t get too sappy.

Top Birthday Instagram Captions

1. I’m just here for the birthday cake 🎂
2. Happy birthday to me!
3. Another year wiser…
4. Age is just a state of mind.
5. Feeling hopeful for the year ahead.
6. It’s my birthday—time to party!
7. I’m officially old enough to know better.
8. Happy birthday to yours truly.
9. Feeling like a birthday queen 👑
10. Cheers to another great year.
11. Keep calm and birthday on.
12. Living in the present because life is a gift.
13. [X] years and counting!
14. Determined to make this year the best one yet.
15. Act my age? Maybe next year.

Best Birthday Instagram Quotes

1. “With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.” —William Shakespeare
2. “Today is the oldest you’ve ever been, and the youngest you’ll ever be again.” —Eleanor Roosevelt
3. “God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.” —Voltaire
4. “There are two great days in a person’s life—the day we are born and the day we discover why.” —William Barclay
5. “Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.” —John Lennon
6. “Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.” —Ausonius
7. “How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” —Satchel Paige
8. “All the world is a birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.” —George Harrison
9. “Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.” —Sammy Hagar
10. “We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.” —Lauren Hutton

Short Birthday Captions for Instagram

1. Older and bolder.
2. Birthdays never get old.
3. National Me Day
4. Still a kid at heart.
5. New age, same me.
6. I’m busy making wishes.
7. The best is yet to come.
8. I don’t wish and tell 🤫
9. Forever young, forever fabulous.
10. Cake is always the answer.
11. Sip sip, hooray!
12. Cue the confetti 🎉
13. Birthday selfie time.
14. I’m the gift today.
15. It’s my special day.

Short Birthday Quotes for Instagram

1. “There is still no cure for the common birthday.” —John Glenn
2. “Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift!” —Aretha Franklin
3. “Celebrate your journey of life.” —Lailah Gifty Akita
4. “Live long and prosper.” —Spock
5. “It takes a long time to become young.” —Pablo Picasso
6. “You don’t get older, you get better.” —Shirley Bassey
7. “Let them eat cake.” —Marie Antoinette
8. “My life is better with every year of living it.” —Rachel Maddow
9. “Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.” —Plautus
10. “It’s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.” —Brigitte Bardot

Funny Birthday Instagram Captions

1. Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
2. Thanks for giving birth to a legend, Mom.
3. I’m aging like a fine wine.
4. On this day, a star was born 🌟
5. Age is just a number, and I don’t remember how to count.
6. Birthdays are always a piece of cake.
7. I’m not aging, just upgrading.
8. It’s my birthday, I can wine if I want to.
9. I’m too young to feel this old.
10. Growing old is mandatory, but growing up is optional.
11. Celebrating me, myself, and I.
12. Same time next year?
13. I’m still waiting to feel wiser…
14. My birthday is my favorite holiday.
15. I can’t promise I’ll act my age.

Funny Birthday Instagram Quotes

1. “As you get older, three things happen: The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two.” —Norman Wisdom
2. “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!” —Dr. Seuss
3. “Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what the hell happened.” —Cora Harvey Armstrong
4. “Please don’t retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.” —Anna Magnani
5. “I intend to live forever. So far, so good.” —Steven Wright
6. “You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.” —Bob Hope
7. “My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.” —Boris Johnson
8. “Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.” —Mary Schmich
9. “When someone asks if you’d like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?” —Lisa Loeb
10. “Is it your birthday, girl? ‘Cause you’re lookin’ like a present.” —Lizzo

Sentimental Birthday Captions for Instagram

1. Don’t count the years—make the years count.
2. [Age] and loving every second of it.
3. Too blessed to be stressed on my birthday.
4. Birthdays are proof that we’re glowing, growing, and thriving.
5. Here’s the laughter, the lessons, and the love that shaped this year.
6. Another trip around the sun, and I’m just getting started ☀️
7. Taking today to honor everything that makes me, me.
8. Feeling blessed to see another year.
9. Life’s too short not to celebrate every chance you get!
10. Birthdays are incomplete without the ones who love and care for you.
11. Hold on to your inner child as you grow older.
12. Live your life and forget your age.
13. Birthday mood: grateful and blessed.
14. I’m making my own magic today 🪄
15. Focused on collecting memories, not things.

One-Word Birthday Captions for Instagram

1. Celebrate!
2. #Blessed
3. Thriving.
4. Grateful.
5. Cheers 🥂
6. Glowing.
7. Timeless.
8. Thankful.
9. Radiant.
10. Bliss.
11. Unstoppable.
12. Fearless.
13. Hooray!
14. Vibing.
15. Legendary.

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Cheers to making this next year even better than the last!

xo,

Jessi

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