These winter quotes perfectly capture the frost-laced beauty of the season
65 Cozy Winter Quotes to Help You Embrace the Season
Updated on Oct. 15, 2024
The best winter quotes
1. “Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for talk beside the fire; it is the time for home.” —Edith Sitwell
2. “Nature confounds her summer distinctions at this season. The heavens seem to be nearer the Earth. The elements are less reserved and distinct. Water turns to ice, rain to snow. The day is but a Scandinavian night. The winter is an arctic summer.” —Henry David Thoreau
3. “There must be some nerve and heroism in our love, as of a winter morning.” —Henry David Thoreau
4. “In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived among shadows and silence, lent that setting a slight air of promise in which at least children and those who had learned the art of forgetting could still believe.” —Carlos Ruiz Zafón
5. “When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
6. “Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is, the more studious we are.” —Henry David Thoreau
7. “I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.” —Pablo Neruda
8. “Therefore my age is as a lusty winter, Frosty, but kindly.” —William Shakespeare
9. “Spring. That means there’s only 274 days left till winter.” —Verne, Over the Hedge
10. “There can be no argument. Winter will end by noon today.” —Father Winter, Jack Frost (1979)
11. “Can you not see that I have bigger problems? Winter is almost here, and I have an entire village to feed!” —Stoick the Vast, How to Train Your Dragon
12. “You kind of set off an eternal winter everywhere.” —Anna, Frozen
13. “All us flowers sleep in the winter.” —Flower the Skunk, Bambi
14. “I’ll whistle up a winter.” —Jack Frost, Jack Frost (1979)
15. “More winter, everyone! More winter!” —Jack Frost, Jack Frost (1979)
16. “Anything can happen on a snow day.” —Hal Brandston, Snow Day
17. “I never knew winter could be so beautiful.” —Anna, Frozen
18. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” —Henry Rollins
19. “Vermont must be beautiful this time of year … all that snow!” —Judy Haynes, White Christmas
20. “You see, before he came down here, it never snowed. And afterwards, it did. If he weren’t up there now, I don’t think it would be snowing. Sometimes you can still catch me dancing in it.” —Kim, Edward Scissorhands
21. “I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.” —Sylvia Plath
22. “Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgment, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds—the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.” —Denise Levertov
23. “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.” —Lipstick Jungle by Candace Bushnell
24. “Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” —Kahlil Gibran
25. “I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread and spruce.” —Taylor Swift
26. “How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” —Thomas Wentworth Higginson
27. “The simplicity of winter has a deep moral.” —John Burroughs
28. “O, Winter! Put away thy snowy pride…” —Thomas Chatterton
29. “How bittersweet it is, on winter‘s night, / To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, / As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, / Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.” —Charles Baudelaire
Cozy winter quotes
30. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
31. “If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” —Anne Bradstreet
32. “The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.” —Samuel Lover
33. “The trumpet of a prophecy! O Wind, If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” —Percy Bysshe Shelley
34. “In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts…” —Henry David Thoreau
35. “Winter’s a good time to stay in and cuddle, but put me in summer and I’ll be a … happy snowman!” —Olaf, Frozen
36. “If you ask me, the miracle isn’t how each snowflake is perfectly formed. The real winter miracle is what can happen afterward. It’s called a snow day. It’s a day kids live for.” —Hal Brandston, Snow Day
37. “Everything’s magical when it snows.” —Lorelai Gilmore, Gilmore Girls
38. “Every avalanche begins with a snowflake.” —Hal Brandston, Snow Day
39. “What good is the warm of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” —Travels with Charley: In Search of America by John Steinbeck
40. “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
41. “In the winter, the snow had become glittery fairy dust that had given all the creatures of the meadow warm clothes and a fire to help them endure the winter.” —Elle’s Magical Shoes by Carla Reighard
42. “There is a wilder solitude in winter, / When every sense is pricked alive and keen.” —May Sarton
43. “Late at night, listening to the winter rain / Recalling my youth— / Was it only a dream? Was I really young once?” —Ryōkan
44. “Even in winter, the cold isn’t always bitter, and not every day is cruel.” —Changes by Jim Butcher
45. “But Winter has yet brighter scenes—he boasts / Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows” —“A Winter Piece” by William Cullen Bryant
46. “O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet, mingled among the shale, and purple wings, of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.” —Hilda Dolittle
47. “I suppose it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier. A snow that’d make a homecoming homier, and natural enemies, friends, natural.” —Narrator, Frosty the Snowman
48. “I planned out our whole day. First, we make snow angels for two hours, and then we’ll go ice skating, and then we’ll eat a whole roll of Tollhouse Cookie Dough as fast as we can, and then to finish, we’ll snuggle.” —Buddy, Elf
Funny winter quotes
49. “You mean winter as in igloos and Eskimos and penguins and ice?” —Sanka Coffie, Cool Runnings
50. “Let’s just fly south for the winter. Why not?” —Grandpa Joe, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
51. “There is no way that this winter is ever going to end as long as this groundhog keeps seeing his shadow. I don’t see any other way out. He’s gotta be stopped. And I have to stop him.” —Phil Connors, Groundhog Day
52. “First, I set the alarm clock for spring. Then I jump into the sack, Jack … and snooze away the winter.” —Yogi Bear, Yogi Bear
53. “For your information, sir, I intend on stayin’ awake all winter.” —Yogi Bear, Yogi Bear
54. “South for the winter is the place for me, doo-dah, doo-dah. I’ll drink my fill of Sassafras tea, oh doo-dah day.” —Foghorn Leghorn, Foghorn Leghorn Shorts
55. “You know, the problem with making snow angels is you can never make an absolutely perfect one. I mean, there’s always gonna be that handprint you make when you climb out.” —Lane Leonard, Snow Day
56. “I wish it were winter so we could freeze it into ice blocks and skate on it and melt it in the springtime and drink it!” —Barry Badrinath, Beerfest
57. “This is pure snow! It’s everywhere! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is?” —
58. “Nothing burns like the cold.” —A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin
59. “Snow. It had to be snow. She couldn’t have had tropical magic that covered the fjords in white sand and warm.” —Anna, Frozen
60. “If the snow’s white, then it’s all right. Yellow or green, it’s just not clean. I learned that one the hard way.” —Koda, Brother Bear
61. “Ah, Christmas. Time for Santa Claus and his eight prancing rein-bear.” —Fozzie Bear, A Muppet Family Christmas
62. “Abominable. Can you believe that? Do I look abominable to you? Why can’t they call me the Adorable Snowman or the Agreeable Snowman, for crying out loud? I’m a nice guy.” —Yeti, Monsters Inc.
63. “I like to mash snow. It gives me a tremendous feeling of self-satisfaction.” —Marty, Beautiful Girls
64. “Did I ever tell you about the time I invented snowboarding? I don’t want credit for it, but they just keep giving it to me.” —Stumpy, Out Cold
65. “Sit on a park wall / Ask all the right questions / ‘Why are the horses racing taxis in the winter?'” —Ezra Koenig
As winter approaches, it’s time for cozy nights and festive cheer. Spread the magic of the season with winter quotes and holiday quotes too.
Additional reporting by Kelly Kuehn.
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