Winter Days Quotes:

He that passeth a winters day escapes an enemy.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.318

topic: Winter, Enemy, Winter Days

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

- John Burroughs

topic: Summer, Winter, World, Summer And Winter, Winter Days

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

topic: Good Night, Summer, Nature, Inspiring Nature, Summer And Winter

In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, Snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

- Christina Rossetti

source: 'Mid-Winter'

topic: Travel, Nature, Winter, Bleak, Snow Falling

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Fear, Wind, Snow, Coldness, Winter Cold

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

topic: Winter, Fire, Air, Winter Days, Winter Months

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

topic: Beautiful, Winter, Voice, Winter Days, Winter Time

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

topic: Believe, Winter, Snow, Winter Cold, Winter Days

Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light...

- Woodrow Wilson

source: "By the Way" by Preston Williams, Xulon Press, Virginia (pp. 38-39), 2002.

topic: Dream, Bad Day, Sunshine, Spring Day, Keep Dreaming

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.

- Woodrow Wilson

topic: Love, Dream, Spring, Man Of My Dreams, Dreams Can Come True

If the October days were a cordial like the sub-acids of fruit, these are a tonic like the wine of iron. Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.122, Courier Corporation

topic: Wine, Winter, Vintage, Winter Days

Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold: So cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, John Glover (of Cambridge?.) (1864). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The first, second, and third parts of King Henry VI. The first part of the contention, &c. The true tragedie of Richard Duke of Yorke, and the good King Henry the Sixt. King Richard III”, p.147

topic: Summer, Winter, Clouds, Summer And Winter, Winter Days

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

topic: Summer, Country, Spring, Spring Summer, Snow Falling

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

- Paul Theroux

topic: Recovery, Winter, Preparation, Winter Days

The simplicity of winter has a deep moral. The return of Nature, after such a career of splendor and prodigality, to habits so simple and austere, is not lost either upon the head or the heart. It is the philosopher coming back from the banquet and the wine to a cup of water and a crust of bread.

- John Burroughs

topic: Heart, Wine, Winter, Winter Days, Banquets

If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

topic: Life, Spring, Adversity, Spring Awakening, Spring Gardening

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

- Pietro Aretino

source: Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

topic: Spring, Winter, Genius, Winter Cold, Winter Days

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

topic: Stars, Winter, Moon, Exalted, Winter Days

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

- Victor Hugo

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Humour And Laughter, Inspirational Laughter

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

- John Steinbeck

topic: Summer, Winter, Giving, Invincible Summer, Cold Weather

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

- Anton Chekhov

source: 'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

topic: Happiness, Happy, Summer, Summer And Winter, Summer Garden

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

source: Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

topic: Home, Winter, Fire, Solstice, Cold Weather

Every winter, When the great sun has turned his face away, The earth goes down into a vale of grief, And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables, Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay- Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.

- Charles Kingsley

source: Charles Kingsley (2008). “The Saint's Tragedy: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.138, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Spring, Grief, Kissing, Winter Days, Winter Time

The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood.

- John Burroughs

source: John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.53

topic: Summer, Winter, June, Summer And Winter, Winter Days

I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.

- Bill Watterson

topic: Winter, Bad Mood, Cold, Cold Weather, Cold Days

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

- Deborah Kerr

source: "Fictional character: Terry McKay". "An Affair to Remember", www.imdb.com. 1957.

topic: Memories, Winter, Cold, Cold Weather, Warm Heart

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

- William Blake

topic: Life, Thinking Of You, Nature, Spring Season, Warm Heart

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

- Elizabeth Bowen

topic: Time, Morning, Spring, Spring Day, October And Fall

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

- Anne Bradstreet

source: Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

topic: Spring, Winter, Pleasant, March Poems, Spring Awakening

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

- Albert Camus

source: "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Solstice, Invincibility

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

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, March Poems, Spring Day

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.

- Andrew Wyeth

source: Andrew Wyeth, Greenville County Museum of Art (1979). “Works”

topic: Fall, Winter, Waiting, Winter Days, Winter Months

Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces, dressing up some scene for our entertainment. Lately we had a leafy wilderness; now bare twigs begin to prevail, and soon she will surprise us with a mantle of snow. Some green she thinks so good for our eyes that, like blue, she never banishes it entirely from our eyes, but has created evergreens.

- Henry David Thoreau

source: Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2799, Delphi Classics

topic: Eye, Winter, Thinking, Winter Days, Evergreens

What a severe yet master artist old Winter is... No longer the canvas and the pigments, but the marble and the chisel...

- John Burroughs

topic: Winter, Artist, Canvas, Winter Days, Winter Season

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

topic: Spring, Wine, Winter, Chestnuts, Winter Days

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

source: Sarah Orne Jewett (2009). “The Country of the Pointed Firs”, p.268, Broadview Press

topic: Peace, Winter, Quiet, Winter Days

I always enjoy Oslo. It's a beautiful city, especially on a cold winter day.

- Greg Rutherford

source: "Greg Rutherford: 'I ate sushi with Charlize Theron and Usher'". Interview with Nick McGrath, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 7, 2016.

topic: Beautiful, Winter, Cities, Winter Cold, Winter Days

We go, in winter's biting wind, On many a short-lived winter day, With aching back but willing mind To dig and double dig the clay.

- Ruth Pitter

source: Ruth Pitter (1969). “Collected poems”

topic: Winter, Wind, Mind, Winter Days, Short Lived

To anticipate, not the sunrise and the dawn merely, but, if possible, Nature herself! How many mornings, summer and winter, before yet any neighbor was stirring about his business, have I been about mine...So many autumn, ay, and winter days, spent outside the town, trying to hear what was in the wind, to hear and carry it express! I well-nigh sunk all my capital in it, and lost my own breath into the bargain, running in the face of it.

- Henry David Thoreau

topic: Summer, Running, Morning, Summer And Winter, Winter Days

At Last It's a perfect winter day. No wind. No Arctic freeze. Cloudless azure sky. A day to fly. Snow drapes the mountain like ermine, fabulous feather- light powder coaxing me to flee the confines of my room, brave the mostly plowed road up to the closest ski resort. To run from the cloying silence connected Mom and Dad, into encompassing stillness far away from city dirt and noise Far above suburban gridlock. Far beyond the grasp of home.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Mom, Running, Dad, Winter Days, Gridlock

I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Dream, Believe, Winter, Devouring, Winter Days

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

- Philip Gilbert Hamerton

source: Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

topic: Summer, Exercise, Winter, Day And Night, Summer And Winter

O Time and change! - with hair as gray as was my sire's that winter day, how strange it seems, with so much gone of life and love, to still live on!

- John Greenleaf Whittier

source: John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.288

topic: Love, Winter, Hair, Winter Days

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies.

- Vera Nazarian

topic: New Year, Air, Ice, Winter Days, Beginnings And Endings

Where has thou been all the dumb winter days When neither sunlight was nor smile of flowers, Neither life, nor love, nor frolic, Only expanse melancholic, With never a note of thy exhilarating lays?

- Alfred Austin

source: Alfred Austin (1896). “Days of the Year: A Poetic Calendar from the Works of A. Austin”

topic: Flower, Winter, Dumb, Winter Days

The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.

- Charles Dickens

topic: Nature, Dark, Winter, Marshes, Masts

We didn't think the library was funny looking in it's faux- Greek splendor, nor did we find the cuisine limited or bland, or the movies at the Michigan theater relentlessly American and mindless. These were opinions I came to later, after I became a denizen of a City, an expatriate anxious to distance herself from the bumpkin ways of her youth. I am suddenly consumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.

- Audrey Niffenegger

topic: Girl, Distance, Reading, Winter Days, Faux

Genesis 8:22 As long as the earth endures, seed time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will never cease. I believe [without evidence] that is the infallible word of God and that's the way it is going to be for his creation. The earth will end only when God declares its time to be over. Man will not destroy this earth. This earth will not be destroyed by a flood.

- John Shimkus

topic: Summer, Believe, Winter, Summer And Winter, Winter Days