Quotes About January

Celebrating the first page of a new calendar

The holidays are gone. Winter rages on. The beginning of the year hold’s so much promise and hope, and these quotes about January describe how we respond to the change in calendar.

1. “Feeling a little blue in January is normal.” -Marilu Henner

2. “Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.” -Karen Joy Fowler

3. “January, month of empty pockets! Let us endure this evil month, anxious as a theatrical producer’s forehead.” -Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

4. “Plant carrots in January and you’ll never have to eat carrots.” -Gardening saying

5. “We spend January 1st walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives…not looking for flaws, but for potential.” -Ellen Goodman

6. “January is the calendar’s ingrown hair.” -Stewart Stafford

7. “I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks.” -Sanober Khan

8. “Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.” -Hal Borland

9. “When one reads a poet in January, it is as lovely as when one goes to walk in June.” -Jean Paul Friedrich Richter

10. “January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” -Sara Coleridge

11. “I killed my ex lovers and buried to my memories’ grave. It is January And I am tired of being brave.” -Arzum Uzun

12. “New Year’s resolutions have always been something to beat myself up with by the second week of January. It seems perverse to set yourself up for failure right at the start of the year.” -Romesh Ranganathan

13. “Cupid’s Forecast January — General depression, caused by Brain-storms of December. This is succeeded by a wave of Good Resolutions, accompanied by a general downpour of Ice Water.” -Oliver Herford

14. “January looks forward to the new year and back to the old year. He sees past and future.” -M.L. Stedman

15. “JANUARY, The first month of the year, A perfect time to start all over again, Changing energies and deserting old moods, New beginnings, new attitudes.” -Charmaine J. Forde

16. “If I had my way, I would remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.” -Roald Dahl

17. “No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference. It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left. It is the nativity of our common Adam.” -Charles Lamb

18. “January is the Monday of months.” -Unknown

19. “Dickensian poverty tends to occur after Christmas in January. For it is then, with pockets empty, diary decimated and larder bare, that the general populace sinks into a collective pauper’s hibernation until Valentine’s Day.” -Stewart Stafford

20. “Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January. The new and fresh has always come for me in the fall. Ironically, as leaves are falling like rain, crunching beneath my feet with finality, I am vibrating with the excitement of birth and new beginnings….My year begins in autumn.” -Betsy Cañas Garmon

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