Share these winter quotes in celebration of the colder months
The bare trees, the longer nights, that elevated chill in the air—these are just some of the signs that winter is approaching. Admittedly, winter has a less-than-favorable reputation with those not thrilled with the promise of snowy days and chilly nights. Winter’s not all that bad, though, especially if you embrace it. In fact, winter brings fun Christmas activities and the beautiful snow flurries that start to fly around the first day of winter. It’s hard to fully grasp winter’s essence in just a few words, but the winter quotes below will help.
These uplifting winter-solstice quotes will make you feel warm and fuzzy about the coldest season. Some are wonderful winter-themed nature quotes, while others sum up the opportunities winter brings us. Scroll through these wise quotes about winter and enjoy!
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“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” —Ben Aaronovitch
“Every winter has its spring.” —H. Tuttle
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” —Hal Borland
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” —John Burroughs
“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” —Leo Sayer
“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” —Nancy Hatch Woodward
“And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain.” —Dan Fogelberg
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” —Elizabeth Camden
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.” —Noelle Vignola
“Wisdom comes with winters.” —Oscar Wilde
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” —Marty Rubin
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” —Murray Pura
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” —Dean Koontz
“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.” —Deirdre Sullivan
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” —Sinclair Lewis
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” —Henry David Thoreau
“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.” —Carol Rifka Brunt
“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
“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
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” —William Blake
“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
These winter quotes remind you what a peaceful time winter is, just like these inspiring peace quotes.
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” —Noam Chomsky
“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
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” —J.B. Priestly
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” —Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” —Robert Frost
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” —John Geddes
“My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” ―
“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” —Andy Goldsworthy
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” ―
“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
“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.” ―
“Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” —Ruth Stout
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” ―
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” —Anamika Mishra
“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow.” —T.S. Eliot
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” ―
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” —John Burroughs
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” —Anton Chekhov
“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.” ―
“Grace grows best in winter.” —Samuel Rutherford
After browsing through these winter quotes, don’t forget to check out these spring quotes too!
“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
“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
“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” —Henry Rollins
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” —Paul Theroux
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“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.” ―
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. ” —John Steinbeck
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” ―
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ―
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” —Pietro Aretino
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” —Tom Allen
Additional reporting by Kelly Kuehn.