Quotes About December

Saying goodbye to another year

Can you believe that we’re in the last month of the year already? December brings holidays, snowy days, chilly nights, and a whole lot of memories. These quotes are for the month that helps us say goodbye to the year.

1. “I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.” -Oliver Herford

2. “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.” -John Geddes

3. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” -James M. Barrie

4. “When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away; When short and scant the sun-beam throws, Upon the weary waste of snows.” -Walter Scott

5. “December will be magic again. Don’t miss the brightest star. Kiss under mistletoe. I want to hear you laugh. Don’t let the mystery go now.” -Kate Bush

6. “People can’t concentrate properly on blowing other people to pieces if their minds are poisoned by thoughts suitable to the twenty-fifth of December.” -Ogden Nash

7. “How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” -Dr. Seuss

8. “Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.” -Sara Coleridge

9. “It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.” -Dylan Thomas

10. “Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” -Edgar Allan Poe

11. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” -William Shakespeare

12. “Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.” -Dave Eggers 13. “Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?” -Clement Scott

14. “May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.” -Lisa Kleypas

15. “Outside the house it was storming, a busy downfall of flakes that the wind blew lightly across acres of old snow left from December.” -Gladys Hasty Carroll

16. “The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” -Dylan Thomas

17. “December was a horrible month.” -Sandy Bryant

18. “He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December.” -Charlotte Riddell

19. “December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.” -Zinaida Gippius

20. “No matter what my fortune may be, or where I may roam, in December, I’ll be going home.” -Floyd Huddleston

21. “If you are feeling some December blues, or even depression, don’t fight it. Instead, do something for yourself. Be reflective. Let the emotions exist. And be encouraged that, like me, you can get to a better place, but it can take time.” -Brad Feld 22. “I watched you storm towards the restaurant door. It was a chilly December morning and the birds sitting on the high wires in the neighborhood refused to fly any longer.” -Malak El Halabi

23. “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

24. “Every December, I host a tree-trimming party. I serve chili with cornbread and lots of good wine. It’s a wonderful party, and it shows how much adults like to play.” -Maya Angelou

25. “A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.” -Kiran Bantawa

26. “How like a winter hath my absence been From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen! What old December’s bareness everywhere!” -William Shakespeare

27. “December. A desperate celebration of an end.” -Chandrama Deshmukh

28. “In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago.” -Christina Rossetti

29. “December 25th has become guilt and obligation.” -Phil Donahue

30. “On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.” -Alexander Pope

31. “There’s something super special about December.” -Charmaine J. Forde

32. “December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.” -Anne Gisleson

33. “Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!” -Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

34. “Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.” -P.J. O’Rourke

35. “By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.” -Will Chancellor

36. “It was December, I had never felt so cold, the eel soup lay heavy on my stomach, I was afraid I’d die, I turned aside to vomit, I envied them.” -Samuel Beckett

37. “December drops no weak, relenting tear, By our fond summer sympathies ensnared; Nor from the perfect circle of the year Can even winter’s crystal gems be spared.” -Christopher Pearse Cranch

38. “It is never over, though we are in December!” Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

39. “It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” -Sarah Kay

40. “December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” -Fennel Hudson

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December Quotes. BrainyQuote. https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/december-quotes

December Quotes. Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/december

December Sayings and Quotes. Wise Sayings. https://www.wisesayings.com/december-quotes/

Quotations about December. The Quote Garden. https://www.quotegarden.com/december.html