Winter is full of beauty, joy, and adventure. On cold days, cozy blankets and hot cocoa soothe the soul. And when snowflakes fill the sky, we are enchanted by winter’s splendor. Through the ages, people – both famous and unknown – have found ways to capture the magic of winter through words.

From beloved poets and authors to deep thinkers from a variety of backgrounds, these 100 quotes about winter bring fresh insight into this special season.

So take a break from shoveling that driveway and settle in by the fireplace; here are 100 quotes to warm your heart while we wait for spring!

100 Qoutes About Winter

1. To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold. -Aristotle
2. A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. -John Geddes
3. The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter. -Benjamin Alire Sáenz
4. A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter. -Patricia Briggs
5. One kind word can warm three winter months. -Japanese Proverb
6. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. -Sarah Addison Allen
7. What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness? -John Steinbeck
8. There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball. -Bill Veeck
9. Winter forms our character and brings out our best. -Tom Allen
10. 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
11. 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. Remember that life isn’t an emergency. -Kelsi Turner
12. In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move. -Henry Rollins
13. If winter comes, can spring be far behind? -Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. -Richard Adams
15. Every winter has its spring. -H. Tuttle
16. Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without. -Thomas De Quincey
17. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. -Paul Theroux
18. Winter is nature’s sleep. -H.S. Jacobs
19. To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. -W.J. Vogel
20. Nothing burns like the cold. -George R. R. Martin
21. In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur. -James Ellis
22. There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special, even though you know you’re not. -Carol Rifka Brunt
23. If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. -Anne Bradstreet
24. 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
25. I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops. -Nikki Giovanni
26. 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
27. 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
28. Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation. -Sinclair Lewis
29. The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter. -Dave Barry
30. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
31. Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have. -Neil Hilborn
32. Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake. -Sara Raasch
33. Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look at what they can do when they stick together. -Vesta M. Kelly
34. People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy. -Anton Chekov
35. Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world. -Sarah Addison Allen
36. 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
37. How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter in our year? -Thomas Wentworth Higginson
38. I want to age the way that life makes you age because there’s beauty in autumn and winter and I think people forget that. -Helen Baxendale
39. 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
40. I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields so 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
41. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. -Paul Theroux
42. Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring. -Erin Hanson
43. 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
44. And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous. -Rumi
45. No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. -Kenneth Grahame
46. Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour. -John Boswell
47. 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
48. God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger. -Heraclitus
49. Nothing is as easy to make as a promise this winter to do something next summer; this is how commencement speakers are caught. -Sydney J. Harris
50. O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? -Percy Bysshe Shelley
51. Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. -Terri Guillemets
52. 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
53. Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude. -William Shakespeare
54. Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even memory can be a small substitute. -Vera Nazarian
55. A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship. -Markus Zusak
56. In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. -Albert Camus
57. All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, and deep roots are not reached by the frost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
58. He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter. -John Burroughs
59. Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. -Richard Adams
60. Winter is the time for comfort, good food and warmth, the touch of a friendly hand, and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home. -Edith Sitwell
61. Winter forms our character and brings out our best. -Tim Allen
62. Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night. -Virginia Woolf
63. It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection. -Elizabeth Camden
64. Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories. -Deborah Kerr
65. With luck, it might even snow for us. -Haruki Murakami
66. I like cold weather. It means you get work done. -Noam Chomsky
67. Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken. -Alex Guarnaschelli
68. The pine stays green in winter… wisdom in hardship. -Norman Douglas
69. Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. -Pietro Aretino
70. They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter. -Italian Proverb
71. In seed, time learns, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy. -William Blake
72. It reminded me of what Dad said after every snail’s crawl home from Albany when snow hit. It’s New York, people. It’s winter. We get snow. If you aren’t prepared to deal with it, move to Miami. -Kelley Armstrong
73. Nothing burns like the cold. -George R.R. Martin
74. If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. -Murray Pura
75. Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face. -Victor Hugo
76. 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
77. There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. -Billy Connolly
78. That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself and then how to come pliantly back to life again. -Ali Smith
79. If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons. -Murray Pura
80. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens
81. At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream. -E.B. White
82. You can’t get too much winter in the winter. -Robert Frost
83. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance. -Yoko Ono
84. 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
85. The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting. -Louisa May Alcott
86. 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
87. We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. -Zhuangzi
88. I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter. -Bob Seger
89. In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold. -Ben Aaronovitch
90. ‘Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel if you know where to look for it.’ – Henry David Thoreau
91. It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. -Roman Payne
92. Winter is coming. -George R.R. Martin
93. Winter is a season of recovery and preparation. -Paul Theroux
94. Always winter but never Christmas. -C.S. Lewis
95. Snowing is an attempt by God to make the dirty world look clean. -Mehmet Murat Ildan
96. No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. -Hal Borland
97. 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
98. 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
99.  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
100. December has the clarity, simplicity, and silence you need for the best FRESH START of your life. -Vivian White

We can conclude from the many quotes about winter that there is something in this season for everyone. Some of us shy away from the cold, while others embrace it.

There is a universal sense of beauty, hope, and reflection found in the snowy days of winter.

We can appreciate how winter brings things to a halt and gives us time just to be or to get outside and enjoy nature.

It’s up to each individual person to find what winter resonates with within them, but regardless we can all take away something valuable from the long cold months each year.

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