60 Heartwarming Winter Quotes for the Coldest Days

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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, “Snowy Night”

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

“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

“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.” — Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

“I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting.” — Mark Twain

“The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked. Tristran could smell the distant winter on the air — a mixture of night-mist and crisp darkness and the tang of fallen leaves.” — Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“One kind word can warm three winter months.” — Japanese proverb

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” — Ali Smith, Winter

“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, Lipstick Jungle

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

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

“They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.” — Italian proverb

“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

“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

“And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” — Rumi

“‘Maybe Christmas,’ he thought, ‘doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas… perhaps... means a little bit more.’” — Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

"The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination." — Terri Guillemets

“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” — Vesta M. Kelly

“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not.” — Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home

“No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” — Zen and the Art of Happiness

“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 is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug. To let your thoughts catch up with your body. To pin down that idea that's been circling your mind for months. To remember that life isn't an emergency.” — Kelsi Turner

“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. Priestley

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

“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.” — Noelle Vignola, Into Your Meditation: Metaphors On Essential Elements of a Meditation Practice

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

“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” — Novala Takemoto, Missin'

“Covered in snow, the trees rest in winter silence.” — Meeta Ahluwalia

“When it’s really cold, the snow makes a lovely noise underfoot, and it’s like the air is full of stars.” — Katherine May, Wintering: How I learned to flourish when life became frozen

“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.” — Anders Swanson

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

“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.” — Deborah Kerr as Terry McKay, An Affair to Remember

“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

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

“While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen

“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 Zukav

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

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

“When old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.” — Charles Baudelaire

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

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

“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” — Henry Rollins

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

“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

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

“I want to age the way that life makes you age, because there's beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that.” — Helen Baxendale

“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” — Sinclair Lewis

“Give me a hot drink, and I'm happy. Hot cider, hot chocolate, coffee... I like all winter beverages!” — Alexis Bledel

“Every mile is two in winter.” — George Herbert

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

“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.” — E.B. White

“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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