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Explore 60 inspirational and positive winter quotes that will help you appreciate the coziness and be grateful for what you have.
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60 Inspirational and Positive Winter Quotes
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen
“Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.” — Louisa May Alcott
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape.” — Andy Goldsworthy
“There is a subtle magnetism in nature that by a strange chance draws people together in winter.” — Margaret Mead
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” — Japanese proverb
12 Quotes about Winter and Spring
The contrast between winter and spring is popular in literature and poetry as a scheme that can describe, express, and develop ideas, emotions, and situations. Here are 12 quotes about winter and spring:
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” — Terri Guillemets
Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino
“There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.” — Keshav
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” — Anne Bradstreet
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” — Hal Borland
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“A light exists in spring not present in the year at any other season.” — Emily Dickinson
“The beauty of winter is that it makes you appreciate spring.” — L.M. Montgomery
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer an oil painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” — Stanley Horowitz
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” — Victor Hugo
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” — Henry Rollins
8 Quotes about Winter and Summer
Winter is all about coldness, withering, and darkness while the summer season expresses not only warmth but also joy and carefreeness. Here are 6 quotes that compare winter with summer:
“Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” — Osho
“Between the end of that strange summer and the approach of winter, my life went on without change. Each day would dawn without incident and end as it had begun.” —Haruki Murakami
“A winter’s day will sometimes show you more than a summer’s thousand.” — Thomas Fuller
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” — John Burroughs
“The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in winter or summer.” — Henry David Thoreau
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” — Henry David Thoreau
5 Wisdom and Winter Quotes
“There is a silence in winter that announces wisdom.” — Classic phrase used by elder poets and philosophers
“And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.” — Richard Adams
Learn to like the sunrise and sunset, the beating of rain on the roof and windows, and the gentle fall of snow on a winter day. Learn to keep your wants simple and refuse to be controlled by the likes and dislikes of others.” — Lowell C. Bennion
“Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde
12 Winter Quotes about Coziness
In winter, most people feel the need to stay indoors, cuddle up with a hot drink, and read a good book. It’s the perfect time not only for introspection and self-reflection but also joy and happiness with Christmas holidays.
“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 is a time when people like to stay indoors, which I think is an excellent idea.” — John Steinbeck
“Winter is a time to slow down and appreciate simple comforts.” — Jane Austen
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” — Henry David Thoreau
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” — Ben Aaronovitch
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux
“A fire in the fireplace, a cup of hot cocoa or coffee with friends or family, and a good book can make any day better.” — Laura Ingalls Wilder
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
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra
“Laughter is sunshine, it chases winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo
“Winter is the time for stories and secrets, for tea and quiet.” — Marcel Proust
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake
10 Quotes about Melancholy in Winter
Winter is a time of contradictions. The cold weather with low temperatures and darkness is rather depressing.
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” — Bill Watterson
“It is the life of the crystal, the mystery of the frost, the marvelous emptiness of the winter noon.” — John Updike
“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
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” — Virginia Woolf
“I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.” — T.S. Eliot
“Winter solitude— in a world of one color the sound of the wind.” — Matsuo Bashō
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” — Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a few winters? We look at mountains and call them eternal, and so they seem… but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers change their courses, stars fall from the sky, and great cities sink beneath the sea. Even gods die, we think. Everything changes.” —George R.R. Martin
“What am I doing here in this endless winter?” — Franz Kafka
8 December Quotes and Sayings
“How did it get so late so soon? It’s night before it’s afternoon. December is here before it’s June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.” — Mark Twain
“Will you love me in December as you do in May?” — Jack Kerouac
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.” — William Shakspeare
“December’s winter has a broken voice.” — John Clare
“To find a small moment of joy in a blue sky, in a trip somewhere not so far away, a long walk an early morning in December, or a handwritten letter to an old friend simply saying ”I thought of you. I hope you’re well.” — Charlotte Eriksson
“In December, the wind wraps itself around bare trees and twists in between husbands and wives asleep in their beds. It shakes the shingles from the roofs and sifts through cracks in the plaster. The only green things left are the holly bushes and the old boxwood hedges in the village, and these are often painted white with snow.” — Alice Hoffman
“How fast the stream flows from January to December!” — Virginia Woolf
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