Quotes About Winter
Winter can be magical, miserable, majestic, and everything in between! So we gathered the best quotes about winter that will beautifully sum up what you currently feel. Along with winter quotes, we also found snow quotes, winter solstice quotes, and many more categories for you to peruse.
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Winter Quotes
1. “We all grow tired eventually; it happens to everyone. Even the sun, at the close of the year, is no longer a morning person.”
― Joyce Rachelle
2. “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
― Thomas Wentworth Higginson
3. “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. “
― Terri Guillemets
4. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, and spruce.”
― Taylor Swift
5. “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape–the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.”
― Andrew Wyeth
6. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
― Pietro Aretino
7. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
― Paul Theroux
8. “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
— Unknown
9. “The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics. ”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. “To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.”
― W.J. Vogel
11. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus
12. “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
― Tom Allen
13. “I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
― Bill Watterson
14. “There’s no such thing as bad weather–only the wrong clothes.”
― Billy Connolly
15. “Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.”
― William Shakespeare
16. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
— John Burroughs
Snow Quotes
17. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”
― Lewis Carroll
18. “Snow was falling,
so much like stars
filling the dark trees
that one could easily imagine
its reason for being was nothing more
than prettiness.”
― Mary Oliver
19. “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
― Sara Raasch
20. “Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
― Sarah Addison Allen
21. “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.”
― Candace Bushnell
22. “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
23. “Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”
― Sylvia Plath
24. “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
― Carl Reiner
25. “…there’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.”
― Carol Rifka Brunt
26. “The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.”
― Cambria Hebert
27. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
—Aristotle
Cozy Winter Quotes
28. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”
― Edith Sitwell
29. “If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.”
― Murray Pura
30. “In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
― Ben Aaronovitch
31. “Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.”
― Thomas De Quincey
32. “I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.”
― Rachel Cohn
33. “Winter teetered on the verge of succumbing to the returning sun, but today the breeze still preferred the touch of snowflakes”
― Rue
34. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
― John Geddes
35. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
― Anamika Mishra
36. “I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It’s a special time.”
― Edward Kennedy
Romantic Quotes About Winter
37. “No, I don’t miss you… Not in a way that one is missed.
But I think of you.
Sometimes.
In the way that one might think of the summer sunshine
On a winter night…”
― Sreesha Divakaran
38. “I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.”
― Nikki Giovanni
39. “Winter is much like unrequited love; cold and merciless.”
― Kellie Elmore
40. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
― Anton Chekhov
41. “Lovers, forget your love
And list to the love of these
She a window flower
And he a winter breeze.”
― Robert Frost
42. “There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.”
― Korean Proverb
43. “The first snow is like the first love.”
— Lara Biyuts
44. “Kindness is like snow; it beautifies everything it covers.”
— Kahlil Gibran
45. “Love should feel like a hand sewn quilt made by grandma, wrapping you up on a cold winter morning.”
— Carroll Bryant
46. “The summer in you
calms the winter in me.”
— Saiber
47. “my love is a winter’s mist
gently dissolving
through the window
at the nape of your neck.”
— Sanober Khan
Uplifting Quotes About Winter
48. “That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
― Ali Smith
49. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck
50. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley
51. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
― Anne Bradstreet
52. “Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
― Haruki Murakami
53. “One kind word can warm three winter months.”
― Japanese Proverb
54. “We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming.
We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are.
They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse.
But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.”
― Gary Zukhav
55. “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.”
— John Boswell
56. “They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.”
— Italian Proverb
57. “Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winter Quote Metaphors
58. “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
― George R.R. Martin
59. “Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it’s not for you they sing,
And if you think my winter is too cold,
You don’t deserve my spring.”
― Erin Hanson
60. “The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz
61. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
― Victor Hugo
62. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
― Hal Borland
63. “Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
― An Affair to Remember
64. “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
― Elizabeth Bowen
65. “There is an invincible summer in every personality which one can learn by going in the depth of the winter.”
― Robert Frost
66. “If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
― Jennifer McMahon
67. “We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
— Walter Scott
68. “All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
— J.R.R. Tolkien
69. “The fire is winter’s fruit.”
— Arabian Proverb
Winter Solstice Quotes
70. “After the longest night, tomorrow we sing up the dawn. There is a rejoicing that, even in the darkest time, the sun is not vanquished. As of tomorrow, the days begin to get longer as the light of day grows. While the gentle winter sun slowly opens its eyes, let us all bring more light and compassion into the world.”
― Dacha Avelin
71. “The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon.”
― Gary Zukav
72. “The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time — a time to contemplate your immortality.”
― Frederick Lenz
73. “This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”
― Margaret Atwood
74. “As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.”
― Mark Helprin
75. “Today we celebrate light and honor the wisdom of the shadows. In connecting with the natural world in a way that honors the sacred immanence in all things, we establish a resonance with the seasons.”
― Dacha Avelin
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