Embrace the Chill: 30 Inspirational Quotes About Snow

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand-and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late."

- Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

"Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers."

- Kahlil Gibran

"We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt."

- Walter Scott

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"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

"A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder."

- Susan Orlean

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event."

- J. B. Priestley

"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 snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself."

- Lao Tzu

"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

"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

"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

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"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

"When snow falls nature listens."

- Antoinette Van Kleef

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

"Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake! I think we might all learn a lesson from how this utterly unique and exquisite crystal turns into an ordinary, boring molecule of water just like every other one when you bring it into the classroom. And now, while the analogy sinks in, I will be leaving you drips and going outside…"

- Bill Watterson

"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

"Winter sunlight is a warm old soul spreading love in the bitter cold."

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

"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

"To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold."

- Aristotle

"But winter is also respite. All of God’s creatures rest, and recoup, and prepare for the spring to come. And when it does, life bursts forth."

- Irwin Kraus

"As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."

- William Shakespeare

"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur."

- James Ellis

"Eventually, winter comes; eventually, spring comes; eventually, summer comes, and eventually autumn comes! If they don’t show themselves, then there’s a problem!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it."

- Edmund Hillary

"Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow."

- Langston Hughes

"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

"Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood."

- Andy Goldsworth

"Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won't make it 'white'."

- Bing Crosby

"Snow isn't just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a Fife mining town but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible."

- John Burnside

"Winter forms our character and brings out our best."

- Tom Allen

"Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake."

- Sara Raasch

"So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!"

- J. R. R. Tolkien

"Winter stakes out a special physiological and psychological space in those supposedly hardy people who think they are adapted to it. Some of the hype is fair — a really cold winter day can, after all, kill you fairly quickly. But some of us like to over emphasize our own bravery."

- Anders Swanson

"Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice."

- Alice Childress

"Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more."

- Angie Weiland-Crosby

"Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I love snow; I love building snowman. The only thing I don't like is the cold - so if we could have a hot Christmas, that would be amazing."

- Ella Henderson

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."

- Andy Goldsworthy

"A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water."

- Carl Reiner

"The snow is sparkling like a million little suns."

- Lama Willa

"Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.’"

- Robert Byrne

"When snow falls, nature listens."

- Lama Willa Miller

"Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams."

- Anthony T. Hincks

"Snow and adolescence are the only problems that disappear if you ignore them long enough."

- Earl Wilson

"A snowflake is winter’s butterfly."

"With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven."

"Happiness is the feeling of warm sunlight hitting you on a cold winter’s day."

"When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels."

"Dear winter. I’m breaking up with you. I think it’s time to start seeing other seasons. Summer is hotter than you."