No matter what the weather throws at us, we can take comfort in these Winter quotes, designed to raise the spirits. So wrap up warm and settle in with a mug of cocoa.
“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“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, “Tell the Wolves I’m Home”“The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets“There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.”
– Korean Proverb“The fire is winter’s fruit.”
– Arabian Proverb“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.”
– Sara Coleridge“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin“Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge“Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.”
– John Boswell“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
– Patricia Briggs, Dragon’s Blood“I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.”
– John Geddes“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.”
– Elizabeth Bowen“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen“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 time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets“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“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.”
– Jack Kerouac“They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.”
– Italian Proverb“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux“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, “The Sugar Queen”“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“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“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 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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck“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“Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.”
– William Shakespeare“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
11 Funny Winter Quotes To Bring A Smile
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’”
– Robert ByrneThe problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.
Dave Barry“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught.”
– Sydney J. Harris“I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime. “
– Will RogersA lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner“To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.”
– W.J. Vogel“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”
– Victor Hugo“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.”
– Richard Adams“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“When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter.”
– Jarod Kintz
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