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Winter is here.
A messy and magical mix of frosty mornings, long dark evenings and cold nights. But also of pleasant evenings with a book and a hot cup of chocolate, of beautiful walks in the quiet and clear winter landscape and of warmth and celebration together.
To help you find inspiration, motivation, and renewed energy for this season, which many of us are going through the hardest, I want to share 101 of the best and most inspiring winter quotes.
Sayings that cheer you up, motivate you, make you laugh when you’re stressed or worried, and sayings that you can share with family and friends to cheer them up too.
I hope you will find something useful here.
Inspirational winter quotes
“In the middle of winter, I finally learned that within me 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 conversation by the fire: it is time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell
‘Welcome, winter. Your late sunrise and cold breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.
– Terri Guillemets
“I love the smells of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.”
– Taylor Swift
“What I love about winter is that I feel like a kid again: making snow angels, building snowmen and throwing snowballs.”
–James Patterson
“If we had no winter, spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not taste adversity now and then, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
– Anne Bradstraat
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to calm yourself and then come back to life smoothly.”
– Ali Smith
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘On and off!’”
–Robert Byrne
“Winter is not a season, it is a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“How many lessons of faith and beauty would we lose if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.”
– Takayuki Ikkaku
“Winter shapes our character and brings out the best.”
–Tom Allen
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a green future beyond our imagination.”
–Gary Zukav
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that no one else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“The first snowfall is not only an event, but it is also a magical event.”
– J.B. Priestley
“I prefer winter and autumn, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape, the dead feeling of winter. There’s something waiting underneath; the whole story cannot be seen.”
–Andrew Wyeth
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring.”
–Jack Kornfield
“What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter adding sweetness to it.”
– John Steinbeck
“Winter, which, because it is full of care, makes the welcome of summer three times more desirable and rarer.”
– William Shakespeare
“Snow fell, so much like stars filling the dark trees, that it was easy to imagine that its raison d’être was nothing other than beauty.”
– Maria Olivier
“Winter is a slow time, but it is also a time of preparation.”
–Theodore Roethke
“Winter blues are always cured with a potato gratin combined with a roast chicken.”
– Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“Sometimes our fate is like a fruit tree in winter. Who would have thought that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope so, we know.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Winter quotes for motivation and new energy
“No winter lasts forever; no spring misses its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Learn while sowing, learn during harvest, enjoy in winter.”
– William Blake
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel snow angels or make snow angels.”
– Roos Bergman
“The snow doesn’t care a soft white who it touches.”
– E. E. Cummings
“Despite everything I’ve seen and experienced, I still get the same simple sensation when I catch a glimpse of a small patch of snow.”
–Edmund Hillary
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
–Antoinette van Kleeff
“Winter passes and you remember your perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“Adversity brings people together and produces beauty and harmony in the relationships of life, just as the cold of winter produces frost flowers on the window panes.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
“Winter is the time for stories, staying warm and learning more about ourselves.”
– Rip Miller
“Summer is for surrender; Winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
–Percy Bysshe Shelley
“He who in summer wonders at the beauty of the world will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“Even the strongest snowstorms start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“We cannot stop the coming of winter or summer. We cannot stop spring or autumn or make them anything other than what they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse.”
–Gary Zukav
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
–James Ellis
“Winter teaches us that not everything in life is about growth. Sometimes we need to embrace the quiet moments of peace.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“The color of spring is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Keeping a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
–Marty Rubin
“Look deeply into nature, then you will understand everything better.”
–Albert Einstein
“Winter is coming, we know what comes with it. We can learn to live with the cold.”
– George R. R. Martin
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“Only in winter, in the countryside, can you have longer, quieter periods in which you can enjoy the feeling of belonging to yourself.”
– Ruth Stout
Funny winter quotes to help you reduce stress
“Winter: my new excuse for everything.”
– Elise Green
“Never take shortcuts in winter.”
– Bear Grylls
“Many people like snow. I think it is an unnecessary freezing of water.”
–Carl Reiner
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Go inside!’”
–Bill Watterson
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“Winter is coming, so I am knitting a warm sweater for my boyfriend. I mean, I would knit a warm sweater if I had a boyfriend.
– Unknown
“I was just thinking, if it’s really religion with these nudist colonies, they must definitely become atheistic in the winter.”
– Wil Rogers
“Spring, summer and autumn fill us with hope; Winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Winter is the season when we try to keep the house as warm as we did when we complained about the heat last summer.”
–Kin Hubbard
“My favorite outdoor activity is going back indoors.”
–Sarah Kelly
“People don’t notice whether it is winter or summer when they are happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Snow brings a special quality: the power to halt life as you know it.”
–Nancy Hatch Woodward
“I love these cold, gray winter days. On days like these you can enjoy a bad mood.”
–Bill Watterson
“Dear Winter, I’m breaking up with you. I think it’s time for me to see other seasons.”
– Unknown
“Winter must be cold for people without warm memories.”
– Anne Bradstraat
“My old grandmother always said: summer friends will melt away like summer snow, but winter friends are friends forever.”
– George R. R. Martin
“People ask me what I do in the winter when there is no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornsby
“One of the best things about winter is the combination of hot chocolate and fuzzy socks.”
– Elise Green
“Sometimes I wonder if winter is the Earth’s way of saying, ‘Calm down, everyone.’ Go inside and relax for a while. Read a book or something. ”
– Unknown
“The best thing about a winter storm is knowing you don’t have to go anywhere.”
– Garrison Keillor
“Winter is like a house guest who stays too long.”
– Mae West
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
–Bill Watterson
“I have a love-hate relationship with winter. I love it when I’m inside looking out, and I hate it when I’m outside looking in.”
–Steve Martin
“The main difference between winter and summer is that in winter you pay to stay warm and in summer you pay to stay cool.”
– Rip Miller
Short winter quotes
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot overcome.”
–Saul Bellow
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
–Robert Frost
“Winter is a poem written in the snow.”
– Katherine May
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much something as simple as snowfall can mean to a person.”
–Sylvia Plath
“Winter whispers poetry to the soul.”
– Terri Guillemets
“In the winter she curls up with a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch
“Winter is the sleeping time of the earth.”
– Unknown
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“Winter is a glorious display of shimmering fractals, complete with its own unique soundscape and atmosphere.”
–Anders Swanson
“In the winter I plan and plan. I’ll be moving in the spring.”
– Henry Rollins
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R. R. Martin
“Winter brings things back to their essence.”
–Jennifer McMahon
“Winter is a state of mind.”
– Unknown
“Winter gives the fields and the trees so old their beards of icicles and snow.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Winter light is so beautiful and so pure.”
– Unknown
“There are only two seasons: winter and baseball.”
– Bill Veeck
“Winter delights the heart.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Winter is king among fairground operators.”
– Ogden Nash
“Winter reveals the bones of the landscape.”
–Sarah Kelly
“Winter is coming.”
– George R. R. Martin
“Winter adds a whole new dimension to life.”
– Rip Miller
“Winter has its own warmth and care for the soul.”
– Unknown
“Winter brings reflection on the past and the future.”
– Anna Longe
“Winter wakes up my whole soul and body.”
– Unknown
“Winter brings a blessing in disguise. Notice it.”
– Unknown
“Winter dreams about the promise of spring.”
– Maria Olivier
“Winter tests what summer blessed.”
– Elise Green
Do you want more inspiration and motivation for the season? Check out these December quotes as well as these inspirational Christmas quotes and the funny Christmas quotes in this post. Plus the 120 short Christmas quotes here.