Winter Season Quotes:

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

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

- Victor Hugo

topic: Nature, Spring, Heart, Spring Poems, Spring Season

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

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

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

topic: Summer, Perseverance, Gratitude, Spring Summer, Summer And Winter

Now is the winter of our discontent.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Winter, Discontent, Inside And Outside, Most Memorable, Deformity

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.

- Carl Reiner

topic: Nature, Winter, People, Winter Love, Winter Rain

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

- Victor Hugo

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

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

source: "Ode to the West Wind" l. 70 (1819)

topic: Spring, Winter, Air, March Poems, Spring Inspirational

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

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

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

- Hal Borland

topic: Inspirational, Meaningful, Hope, March Poems, Spring Garden

Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Winter, Night, Sound, Winter Love, Winter Season

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.108, BookBaby

topic: Summer, Spring, Fall, Spring Summer, Summer And Winter

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

- William Blake

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

Like the seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring.

- Khalil Gibran

source: Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

topic: Dream, Spring, Heart, Winter Season, Winter Time

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

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

Antisthenes says that in a certain faraway land the cold is so intense that words freeze as soon as they are uttered, and after some time then thaw and become audible, so that words spoken in winter go unheard until the next summer.

- Plutarch

topic: Summer, Winter, Land, Summer And Winter, Winter Cold

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

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

topic: Rain, Fall, Heart, Winter Morning, Winter Season

And for the season it was winter, and they that know the winters of that country know them to be sharp and violent, and subject to cruel and fierce storms.

- William Bradford

source: William Bradford (1952). “Of Plymouth Plantation, 1620-1647”, p.62, Rutgers University Press

topic: Country, Winter, Storm, Plymouth, Winter Season

The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches.

- e. e. cummings

topic: Winter, White, Snow, Winter Months, Winter Rain

In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.

- Edna O'Brien

topic: Spring, Real, Winter, Resurgence, Winter Months

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

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

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

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

- Frank Bolles

source: Frank Bolles (1896). “At the north of Bearcamp Water Chronicles of a stroller in New England from July to December”

topic: Spring, Winter, Knowing, Winter Season, Winter Time

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

- Heraclitus

source: "Fragments (Fragment 67)". Book by Heraclitus, 1877.

topic: Summer, God, Peace, Summer And Winter, Satiety

"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

topic: Winter, Tree, Looks, Winter Season, Winter Time

There is no season such delight can bring, as summer, autumn, winter and the spring.

- William Browne

source: William Browne (1845). “Britannia's Pastorals”, p.256

topic: Summer, Spring, Winter, Spring Poems, Spring Season

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

- Bill Veeck

topic: Baseball, Winter, Two, Winter Season, Mlb

Nothing burns like the cold.

- George R. R. Martin

topic: Winter, Cold, Cold Weather, Winter Cold, Winter Season

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

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

Winter is the time of promise because there is so little to do - or because you can now and then permit yourself the luxury of thinking so.

- Stanley Crawford

source: Stanley Crawford (1992). “A Garlic Testament: Seasons on a Small New Mexico Farm”, p.55, UNM Press

topic: Winter, Thinking, Luxury, Cold Days, Winter Cold

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

I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime.

- Will Rogers

topic: Atheist, Winter, Thinking, Nudists, Colony

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

- Willa Cather

topic: Country, Lying, Winter, Sullen, Stale

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

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Art, Winter, Blow, Winter Season, Winter Snow

One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff.

- Shirley Ann Grau

topic: Winter, Pet, Stuff, Evangelists, Winter Months

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 Morrow Lindbergh

topic: Strong, Holiday, Winter, Winter Holiday, Winter Season

There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter.

- Billy Connolly

topic: Travel, Winter, June, Scots, Winter Season

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

- Thomas Carlyle

source: Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.73, Lulu.com

topic: Summer, Nature, Spring, May Day, Spring Season

We really can't boil a man's life down to seasonal divisions of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Seasons cycle perennially, and we enjoy them because they recur. We should understand a man's life this way too. An elderly person may yet see new springs and summers. On the other hand, some young people never escape winter. Others become ensnared by their own private autumns.

- Hideo Kojima

topic: Summer, Spring, Autumn, Spring Summer, Winter Season

For the third year in a row, the United States has set a record for winter warmth, federal scientists reported yesterday. With an average temperature of 38.4 degrees Fahrenheit, the three-month period of December 1999 through February 2000 was the warmest winter season in the last 105 years in the contiguous 48 states, the scientists said. That mark slightly surpassed the previous record of 37.8 degrees, set a year ago.

- William K. Stevens

topic: Winter, Average, Years, Winter Season, Three Months