Winter – Best Quotes

“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” —Noam Chomsky.

“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, author

“Winter is coming.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” —J. B. Priestly, novelist.

“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

“I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.” – Bob Seger

“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

“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 the time for home.” ― Edith Sitwell

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

“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 light! This is the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” ― Albert Camus, L’été

“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, poet

“Nothing burns like the cold.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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, early English poet

“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.

“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

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

“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

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

“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, A Feast for Crows

“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, Great Expectations

“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, writer.

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” ― Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room

“Summer will end soon enough, and childhood as well.” ― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“She turned to the sunlight

    And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbor:

    “Winter is dead.” ― A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

“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, November

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

“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” —J. B. Priestly, novelist. Get a look at some charming towns that are even cozier when it snows.

“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, author.

“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

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

“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

“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

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” ― Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“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, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“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, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“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, writer.

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” ― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

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

“What did you bring me today? Delusional mutterings with a side of crazy?” ― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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

“She would be brave. She would be heroic. She would make her own destiny.” ― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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

“The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster

“I’m going to make it a law that the correct way to address your sovereign is my giving a high five.’ Kai’s smiled brightened. ‘That’s genius. Me too.” ― Marissa Meyer, Winter

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

“The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship’.  – Norman Douglas

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

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

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

“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

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

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

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” – Candace Bushnell

“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

“The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter.” – Dave Barry

“To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ” – W.J. Vogel

“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. ” – Terri Guillemets

“Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows, but without that noise. ” –  Jack Handey

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

“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

“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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

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

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

“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

“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, naturalist and nature essayist

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” ― Carl Reiner

“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, English essayist

“They’re the first crew I’ve ever had and most of them even call me Captain. I’m going to miss them.” ― Marissa Meyer, Winter

“A song she heard

Of cold that gathers

Like winter’s tongue

Among the shadows

It rose like blackness

In the sky

That on volcano’s

Vomit rise

A Stone of ruin

From burn to chill

Like black moonrise

Her voice fell still…” ― Robert Fanney

“Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder—no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” —Candace Bushnell, author

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” —Paul Theroux, novelist.

“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, poet

“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” —Henry Rollins, singer/songwriter

“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, poet

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” —Tom Allen, coach

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

“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