Embrace the Chill: 30 Inspiring Winter Quotes to Warm Your Heart

"There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes."

- Billy Connolly

"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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Tom Allen

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

- Anders Swanson

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Kahlil Gibran

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

- Albert Camus

"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

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

- Terri Guillemets

"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

"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

"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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

- John Geddes

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

- George R.R. Martin

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

- Anamika Mishra

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

- Anton Chekhov

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

- Hal Borland

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

- Paul Theroux

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

- Yoko Ono

"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

"That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again."

- Ali Smith

"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

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

- Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"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

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

- Rumi

"Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity."

- Novala Takemoto

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Anne Bradstreet

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

- John Steinbeck

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

- Sara Raasch

"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

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

- Lama Willa

"The simplicity of winter has a deep moral."

- John Burroughs

"Every winter has its spring."

- H. Tuttle

"It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain. In the falling quiet, there was no sky or earth, only snow lifting in the wind, frosting the window glass, chilling the rooms, deadening and hushing the city."

- Truman Capote

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

- Pietro Aretino

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

- John Burroughs

"But Winter has yet brighter scenes—he boasts / Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows."

- William Cullen Bryant

"It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow; one imagines the sun lives upon a snow-crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs."

- Roman Payne

"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

"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

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

- Leo Sayer

"In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts…"

- Henry David Thoreau

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

- Marty Rubin

"Even in winter, the cold isn’t always bitter, and not every day is cruel."

- Jim Butcher

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

- Rizki De Fadzai Mushayamunda

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

- Vesta M. Kelly

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

- Nancy Hatch Woodward

"There is a wilder solitude in winter, / When every sense is pricked alive and keen."

- May Sarton

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs

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

- Andy Goldsworth

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

- William Shakespeare

"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

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

- William Blake

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

- James Ellis

"I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together."

- Sylvia Plath

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

- Ben Aaronovitch

"Wisdom comes with winters."

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Murray Pura

"Everything’s magical when it snows."

- Lorelai Gilmore

"Late at night, listening to the winter rain / Recalling my youth— / Was it only a dream? Was I really young once?"

- Ryōkan

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

- Sinclair Lewis

"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

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

- Italian Proverb

"I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier."

- Narrator

"Nothing burns like the cold."

- George R.R. Martin

"The fire is winter’s fruit."

- Arabian Proverb

"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 is nature’s sleep."

- H.S. Jacobs

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

- Noam Chomsky

"I planned out our whole day. First, we make snow angels for two hours, and then we’ll go ice skating, and then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie Dough as fast as we can, and then to finish, we’ll snuggle."

- Buddy

"Let’s just fly south for the winter. Why not?"

- Grandpa Joe

"Ah, Christmas. Time for Santa Claus and his eight prancing rein-bear."

- Fozzie Bear

"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 let them be."

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

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

"No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place."