Quotes to Sum Up All Of Our Feelings About Winter

Winter brings the most beautiful quotes about the snowy and cold season. As you're curling up by the fire with a hot cup of tea, here are some inspirational words to help you celebrate this time of year (and perfectly caption your next Instagram.)

"To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold."

- Aristotle

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."

- John Steinbeck

"Nothing burns like the cold."

- George R.R. Martin

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"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

"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"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 time for home."

- Edith Sitwell

"They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter."

- Italian Proverb

"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

"'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

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."

- Elizabeth Bowen

"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

"The fire is winter's fruit."

- Arabian Proverb

"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter."

- Patricia Briggs, Dragon's Blood

"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."

- Anton Chekhov

"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."

- Victor Hugo

"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

"I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove."

- Jack Kerouac

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."

- Hal Borland

"The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination."

- Terri Guillemets

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude."

- William Shakespeare

"There is no winter without snow, no spring without sunshine, and no happiness without companions."

- Korean Proverb

"Winter forms our character and brings out our best."

– Tom Allen

“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, "The Sugar Queen"

"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

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."

– Paul Theroux

"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

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."

– William Blake

"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, "Tell the Wolves I'm Home"