The winter has some pretty good aspects. Christmas, pretty snow, skiing, space heaters…
A lot has been said about winter over the years. Here, we’ve collected our favorite quips, quotes and sayings about winter. So snuggle in by the fireplace, and enjoy.
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
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus
Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. John Boswell
One kind word can warm three winter months. Japanese Proverb
And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a beech tree…. Four dry logs have in them all the circumstance necessary to a conversation of four or five hours, with chestnuts on the plate and a jug of wine between the legs. Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. Pietro Aretino
No winter is too cold when you have enough love. Unknown
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. Victor Hugo
One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
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
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J.B. Priestly
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
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness. John Steinbeck
Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. Victor Hugo
Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night. Virginia Woolf
Every mile is two in winter. George Herbert
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter evenings. D.E. Stevenson
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. William Hamilton Gibson
And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. Rumi
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
When snow falls, nature listens. Antoinette van Kleeff
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person. Sylvia Plath
Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality. Andy Goldsworthy
Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition. Mignon McLaughlin
Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood. Andy Goldsworthy
The arrival of winter is cause for celebration, cozy weekends and a warming chocolate beverage. Yolanda De Montijo, Kinfolk Magazine
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. T.S. Eliot
Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity. Novala Takemoto
Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day. Virginia Woolf
While I relish our warm months, winter forms our character and brings out our best. Tom Allen
Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. George R.R. Martin
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant. Anne Bradstreet
Winter is a 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
Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man. Victor Hugo
In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. Ben Aaronovitch
All you need is tea and warm socks. Unknown
Winter is the most romantic season for lovers. Unknown
…the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows… John Geddes
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. Hal Borland
My favorite thing about winter? When it’s over. Unknown
