Winter Wisdom: A Curated Collection of Inspiring Quotes About Winter

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

- Albert Camus

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Albert Camus

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."

- Pietro Aretino

"If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow. You get better."

- Steve Southerland

"Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each."

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Hal Borland

"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

"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

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

- Tom Allen

"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity."

- John Burroughs

"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 is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude."

- Noelle Vignola

"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

"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

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

- Aristotle

"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

"Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths."

- George R.R. Martin

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind."

- John J. Geddes

"Surrendering to the fact of winter is a relief: I am grateful for these lingering days of cold. They offer me a few more weeks of quiet and slow before spring emerges, the wheel picks up speed again, and the sound of its exciting spinning fills my days."

- Kelsi Turner

"Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do — or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so."

- Stanley Crawford

"When snow falls, nature listens."

- Lama Willa Miller

"What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?"

- Henry David Thoreau

"One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received."

- Beatriz Williams

"By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run, and the world would wake into itself again."

- Neil Gaiman

"The snow reminded me of the beauty and mystery of creation, of the essential joy that is life."

- Orhan Pamuk

"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

"When winter comes, wrap yourself in a blanket of love."

- Marty Rubin

"Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together."

- Vesta M. Kelly

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

- John Steinbeck

"The way surviving hard winters makes a tree grow stronger, the growth rings inside it tighter."

- Haruki Murakami

"When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart."

- Ajahn Chah

"Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever."

- George R.R. Martin

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

"Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks."

- Nancy Hatch Woodward

"Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance."

- Yoko Ono

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

- Victor Hugo

"December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life."

- Vivian Swift

"Wisdom comes with winters."

- Oscar Wilde

"To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory."

- Marty Rubin

"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 sunshine, it chases winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"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

"There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on."

- Carol Rifka Brunt

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant."

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- Terri Guillemets

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"Every winter has its spring."

- H. Tuttle

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter."

- John Burroughs

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

- William Blake

"It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection."

- Elizabeth Camden

"Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless."

- Terri Guillemets

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"Winter is nature’s sleep."

- H.S. Jacobs

"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

"We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that."

- Philip Pullman

"But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope."

- Mary Balogh

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind."

- John J. Geddes

"I believe in process. I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season."

- Steve Southerland

"I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened."

- Rachel Cohn

"You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass."

- Timber Hawkeye

"Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine."

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

"It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it. It is always the simple that produces the marvelous."

- Amelia Barr

"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."

- Henry David Thoreau

"While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best."

- Tom Allen

"Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration."

- Anamika Mishra

"One kind word can warm three winter months."

- A Japanese Proverb

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

- Anton Chekhov

"Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition."

- Mignon McLaughlin

"There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself."

- Ruth Stout

"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

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."

- Robert Frost

"The fire is winter’s fruit."

- Arabian Proverb

"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show."

- Andrew Wyeth

"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 Morrough Lindbergh

"There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings."

- Leo Sayer

"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 snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence."

- Dean Koontz

"If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons."

- Murray Pura

"I like the cold weather. It means you get work done."

- Noam Chomsky

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

- Victor Hugo

"Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own."

- Anders Swanson

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

- Sara Raasch

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

- Susan Orlean

"The only other sound’s the sweep, Of easy wind and downy flake."

- Robert Frost

"It’s so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can’t see beyond yourself."

- Patricia A. McKillip

"Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child’s smile, and a cup of excellent coffee."

- Jonathon Carroll

"The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?"

- Lara Biyuts

"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."

- Ben Aaronovitch

"Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake. With each new project, my goal is to move a snowflake."

- Thomas Frey

"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

"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

"Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering."

- Debasish Mridha

"The cold never bothered me anyway."

- Elsa

"As the season changes, we learn to adapt."

- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow."

- Deirdre Sullivan

"They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter."

- Italian Proverb

"Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep—a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon."

- Michael Leunig

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

- Anton Chekhov

"Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things."

- Chaim Potok

"The perfect antidote to dark, cold and creepy is light, warm and cozy."

- Candice Olson

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude."

- William Shakespeare

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

- Rumi

"He found a place where he was not only content but, despite suffering mightily in winter, was filled with a sense of joy and fulfillment."

- Simon Worrall

"If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers."

- Marc Parent

"Nothing burns like the cold."

- George R.R. Martin

"We’ll walk this road together, through the storm…. Whatever weather, cold or warm."

- Eminem

"There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough."

- Roald Dahl

"Winter is my favourite season for clothes because I’m happiest wearing knitted dresses, leggings and Uggs."

- Rachel Riley

"Love has different shape, like this falling snow in winter."

- Rizki de Fadzai Mushayamunda

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

- Andy Goldsworthy

"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

"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

"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

"There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing."

- Billy Connolly

"Scarves, mittens and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather."

- Brad Goreski

"I love winter. The bugs are dead, and the people are indoors."

- Dennis Ruane

"And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain."

- Dan Fogelberg

"Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation."

- Sinclair Lewis

"Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken."

- Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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

- Robert Byrne

"The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear."

- Buddy the Elf

"Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling."

- Edna Ferber

"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move."

"There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions."

"The quiet of a winter night brings peace to the soul."

"If you choose not to find joy in the snow, you will have less joy in your life but still the same amount of snow."

"Winter is a time when nature sleeps and dreams."

"In winter, the stars seem so much brighter against the night sky."

"Winter is a celebration of nature’s quiet beauty."