32 Cozy Quotes About Winter to Help You Embrace the Season
Updated: Nov. 08, 2022The ultimate antidote to the winter blues.
On blankets of snow:
“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan, author. Get a look at some stunning photos of national parks covered in snow.
On nature’s gentleness:
“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, author. For some more winter quotes, plus words of wisdom about its fellow seasons, read these other beautiful quotes about nature.
On home:
“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, poet
On perseverance:
“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, artist and activist. Here are some helpful tips from the coldest places in America for getting through (and even enjoying) the winter.
On regrowth:
“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, writer. These winter quotes remind you what a peaceful time winter is, just like these inspiring peace quotes.
On enchantment:
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” —J. B. Priestly, novelist. Get a look at some charming towns that are even cozier when it snows.
On mind over matter:
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus, philosopher.
On appreciating the cold:
“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, early English poet
On the warmth of shelter:
“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.” ―
On the crisp air:
“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, naturalist and nature essayist
On the first snow:
“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, author
On becoming wise:
“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, poet
On recognition:
“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” —Henry Rollins, singer/songwriter
On moving ahead:
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” —Paul Theroux, novelist. If these winter quotes are making you too cold, book a trip to these warm winter getaways.
On frozen:
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” ―
On winter life:
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” ―
On bringing out the best:
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” —Tom Allen, coach. If you’re reading these cozy winter quotes on a snowy day, try out these snow day activities for the whole family.
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