Winter Quotes and Sayings

Winters are the coolest season that starts from December and last till March. The bare trees, the longer nights, that elevated chill in the air—these are just some of the signs that winter is approaching. 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.

Winters give us the time to indulge in various activities like snowball fighting, building snowmen, ice hockey and more. It is a great time for kids to enjoy their vacations and get cozy in their blankets having dry fruits.

Here we have a list of quotes to fill your winters with warmth and love.


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

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“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan


“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” —Henry David Thoreau


“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle


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


“Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R.R. Martin


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


“Winter kept us warm, covering earth in forgetful snow.” —T.S. Eliot

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“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


“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.” Kenneth Grahame


“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


“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


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


“Grace grows best in winter.” —Samuel Rutherford

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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.” Mary Oliver


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


“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


“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” George R.R. Martin


“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.” J.K. Rowling


“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


“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


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


“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


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

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“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


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


“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


“‘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


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


“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” —Robert Frost


“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


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

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“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs, Dragon’s Blood


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


“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” – Victor Hugo


“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


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


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


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

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


“There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.” – Korean Proverb


“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” —Andy Goldsworthy


“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


“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tom Allen

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“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”


“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


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


“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


“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


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

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“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”


“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


“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


“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


“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” Sara Raasch

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“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


“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.” Sarah Addison Allen


Conclusion

There is a very different and amusing vibe that comes from winters. I believe that winter is the most colorful of all seasons and it fills us with an indescribable warmth. Happy winter’s….