Quotes About Winter

The thrill of the chill

Shorter days. Colder nights. The chill of winter continues and these quotes describe the cool months that linger on long after the holidays have gone.

1. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” -John Steinbeck

2. “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

3. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” -Anamika Mishra

4. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” -William Blake

5. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” -Victor Hugo

6. “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” -Thomas Wentworth Higginson

7. “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

8. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus

9. “Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” -Elizabeth Bowen

10. “Every winter has its spring.” -H. Tuttle

11. “Always winter but never Christmas.” -C.S. Lewis

12. “The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination.” -Terri Guillemets

13. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” -John Geddes

14. “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

15. “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

16. “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

17. “The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.” -Louisa May Alcott

18. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” -Hal Borland

19. “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

20. “The fire is winter’s fruit.” -Arabian Proverb

21. “O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” -Percy Bysshe Shelley

22. “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

23. “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

24. “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.” -L.M. Montgomery

25. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” -Paul Theroux

26. “I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.” -Jack Kerouac

27. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” -Anton Chekhov

28. “Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.” -William Shakespeare

29. “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” -Virginia Woolf

30. “One kind word can warm three winter months.” -Japanese Proverb

31. “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 32. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” -Pietro Aretino

33. “If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” -Murray Pura

34. “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

35. “They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.” -Italian Proverb

36. “She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: ‘Winter is dead.’” -A.A. Milne

37. “In the winter, she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” -Ben Aaronovitch

38. “Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” -Alexandra Guarnaschelli 39. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” -Henry Rollins

40. “There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.” -Korean Proverb 41. “Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” -Gustave Flaubert

42. “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” -John Boswell

43. “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.” -Richard Adams

44. “‘Hear! Hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.’” -Henry David Thoreau

45. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” -Patricia Briggs

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