108 Winter Quotes to Celebrate Cozy Season

Winter, with its crisp air, quiet snowfall, and serene landscapes, often inspires reflection and wonder. It’s a season that invites both stillness and transformation, from the beauty of icy mornings to the warmth of crackling fires. The chill in the air brings a sense of clarity, while the snowy blankets of winter offer a fresh perspective on the world around us. In literature, poetry, and everyday life, winter serves as a metaphor for both challenges and new beginnings, offering moments of solitude and introspection. The following collection of winter quotes captures the essence of this unique season, exploring themes of resilience, peace, and the simple joys that come with the cold. Whether you’re curled up with a book or watching the first snowflakes fall, these quotes remind us of winter’s timeless beauty and its ability to inspire both contemplation and warmth.

Winter Quotes

1. “Snowflakes are nature’s silent poetry.” ~ Invajy

2. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?” ~ John Steinbeck

3. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” ~ Aristotle

4. “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.” ~ Anonymous

5. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” ~ Pietro Aretino
6. “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” ~ Paul Theroux
7. “The color of springtime is in the flowers, the color of winter is in the imagination.” ~ Terri Guillemets
8. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes, and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes, and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” ~ Yoko Ono
9. “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” ~ Thomas Wentworth Higginson
10. “In the middle of winter, I, at last, discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.” ~ Albert Camus
11. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” ~ John Geddes
12. “I’ll give you a winter prediction: It’s gonna be cold, it’s gonna be grey, and it’s gonna last you for the rest of your life.” ~ Phil Connors
13. “In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” ~ William Blake
14. “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
15. “I pray this winter to be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” ~ John Geddes
16. “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
17. “I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream. I know how nuts are 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
18. “If winter helps you curl up and more, that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” ~ Murray Pura
19. “I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” ~ Noam Chomsky
20. “I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.” ~ Bob Seger
21. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.” ~ Edith Sitwell
22. “It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” ~ Elizabeth Camden
23. “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
24. “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” ~ John Boswell
25. “My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” ~ George R.R. Martin
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. “There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.” ~ Haruki Murakami
28. “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
29. “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” ~ Sara Raasch
30. “If Winter comes, can spring be far behind?” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
31. “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 favourite 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
32. “Summer bodies are made in the winter.” ~ Krissy Turner
33. “To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” ~ Marty Rubin
34. “There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” ~ Leo Sayer
35. “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
36. “Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” ~ Mehmet Murat ildan
37. “Many of the phenomena of winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hearing this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant, but with the gentleness of a lover, he adorns the tresses of summer.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
38. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” ~ Victor Hugo
39. “Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.” ~ Neil Hilborn
40. “There are adventures of the spirit, and one can travel in books and interest oneself in people and affairs. 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
41. “In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.” ~ James Ellis
42. “No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” ~ Kenneth Grahame
43. “Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it.” ~ Richard Adams
44. “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
45. “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
46. “No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” ~ Hal Borland
47. “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
48. “It’s that time of year when getting out of your warm bed is not for the weak, and trudging through everyday life seems monotonous, exhausting, boring, and, well, just hard. For many people, winter is a very difficult season to muster the strength to feel joy and excitement about much of anything. The SAD struggle is real, people. It’s real.” ~ Christine Carter
49. “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
50. “In winter, we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.” ~ James Ellis
51. “The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
52. “One kind word can warm three winter months.” ~ Japanese Proverb
53. “The weeks will grow progressively warmer, the grass will green, and spring will come. These tales of winter will fade quickly. Memories of shovelling and skiing and snowmobiling and snowshoeing will meld into gardening and sailing, golfing, and other summer pursuits. It happens every year. And we are blessed to experience each one.” ~ Irwin Kraus
54. “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” ~ Tom Allen
55. “To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.” ~ W.J. Vogel
56. “What miracle of weird transforming. Is this wild work of frost and light. This glimpse of glory infinite?” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
57. “The winter is a slow time, but it’s not lifeless. As you huddle against the cold on a February day, you may be ready for spring to come. But all around you, there are other forms of life that are ready too.” ~ Beth Botts
58. “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
59. “Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.” ~ Emily Fridlund
60. “These northern-tier countries are populated by a bunch of generally happy people who not only tolerate winter but have come up with strategies for embracing it.”~ Stefanie Pettit
61. “If this were a rooftop covered with snow, these words would be bird tracks instead of a poem.” ~ William Michaelian
62. “People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” ~ Anton Chekhov
63. “Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered – sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks.” ~ Ray Bradbury
64. “Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.” ~ Kahlil Gibran
65. “That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” ~ Ali Smith
66. “Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.” ~ John Burnside
67. “What’s the point of complaining? We live in the north. Winter exists.” ~ Viki Mather
68. “Snow brings a special quality with it-the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” ~ Nancy Hatch Woodward
69. “Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” ~ Ruth Stout
70. “A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky-unbidden-and seems like a thing of wonder.” ~ Susan Orlean
71. “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
72. “Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.” ~ Edmund Hillary
73. “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
74. “Snow endures but for a season, and joy comes with the morning.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
75. “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
76. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ~ Jeffrey McDaniel
77. “It is in the coldest months that hugs linger snug, and they warm the soul the most.” ~ Richelle E. Goodrich
78. “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” ~ Vesta M. Kelly
79. “Winter is a season that often overstays its welcome. It’s like a chunk of cheese that got shoved way into the back of the fridge and wasn’t found until it had developed so many life forms that it was officially recognized by the United Nations as a new country.” ~ Jerry Nelson
80. “There’s no such thing as bad weather – only the wrong clothes.” ~ Billy Connolly
81. “And don’t think the garden loses its ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but the roots are down there riotous.” ~ Rumi
82. “The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter.” ~ Dave Barry
83. “Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.” ~ Anders Swanson
84. “Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” ~ Novala Takemoto
85. “The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” ~ Lama Willa
86. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” ~ Patricia Briggs
87. “Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.” ~ Andy Goldsworth
88. “Winter is nature’s sleep.” ~ H.S. Jacobs
89. “The fire is winter’s fruit.” ~ Arabian Proverb
90. “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
91. “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
92. “There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions.” ~ Korean Proverb
93. “Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man’s ingratitude.” ~ William Shakespeare
94. “Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” ~ Alexandra Guarnaschelli
95. “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
96. “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
97. “There was a silver lining tucked into last weekend’s blizzard, and I’m not just talking about the joys of sledding. Now that the most beastly part of winter is undeniably here, we’re blanketed in fashion liberation along with the snow. Can you hear that freedom ringing? We’ve been delivered from trying to look chic, slim, angular, and cool.” ~ Liz Krieger
98. “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
99. “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
100. “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
101. “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
102. “December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” ~ Vivian White
103. “Blow ye winds, like the trumpet blows, but without that noise. “ ~ Jack Handey
104. “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
105. “They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter.” ~ Italian Proverb
106. “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
107. “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” ~ Terri Guillemets
108. “You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” ~ Robert Frost