Winter is here.
A messy and magic mix of frosty mornings, long dark evenings and cold nights. But also of cozy evenings spent with a book and hot cup of cocoa, of beautiful walks in the silent and bright winter landscape and of warmth and celebration together.
To help you to find inspiration, motivation and renewed energy for this season that many of us find the hardest to go through I want to share 101 of the best and most inspirational winter quotes.
Sayings that will lift you up, motivate you, make you laugh when you feel stressed or worried and ones you can share with family and friends to lift their spirits too.
I hope you’ll find something helpful here.
Inspirational Winter Quotes
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“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
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets
“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
“What I love about winter is feeling like a kid again: making snow angels, building snowmen and throwing snowballs.”
– James Patterson
“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
“That’s what winter is: An exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese proverb
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up and at ’em!’”
– Robert Byrne
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“When there’s snow on the ground, I like to pretend I’m walking on clouds.”
– Takayuki Ikkaku
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination.”
– Gary Zukav
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event.”
– J.B. Priestley
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
– Andrew Wyeth
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring.”
– Jack Kornfield
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.”
– William Shakespeare
“Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.”
– Mary Oliver
“The winter is a slow time, but it is also a time of getting ready.”
– Theodore Roethke
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.”
– Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“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
Winter Quotes for Motivation and New Energy
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.”
– Edmund Hillary
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life’s relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“Winter is the time for stories, staying warm and learning about ourselves.”
– Rip Miller
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“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.”
– Gary Zukav
“In winter, we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
– James Ellis
“Winter teaches us that not everything in life is about growth. Sometimes we need to embrace the quiet moments of rest.”
– Morgan Harper Nichols
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
– Terri Guillemets
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.”
– Albert Einstein
“Winter is coming, we know what’s coming with it. We can learn to live with the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”
– Ruth Stout
Funny Winter Quotes to Help You Reduce Stress
“Winter: My new excuse for everything.”
– Elise Green
“Never take shortcuts in winter.”
– Bear Grylls
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Get inside!’”
– Bill Watterson
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“Winter is coming, so I am knitting a warm sweater for my boyfriend. I mean, I would be knitting a warm sweater if I had a boyfriend.”
– Unknown
“I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime.”
– Will Rogers
“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“Winter is the season when we try to keep the house as hot as it was when we complained about the heat last summer.”
– Kin Hubbard
“My favorite outdoor activity is going back inside.”
– Sarah Kelly
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“Snow brings a special quality with it – the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.”
– Nancy Hatch Woodward
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“Dear Winter, I’m breaking up with you. I think it’s time I start seeing other seasons.”
– Unknown
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
– George R. R. Martin
“People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”
– Rogers Hornsby
“One of the best things about winter is the hot chocolate and fuzzy socks combo.”
– Elise Green
“Sometimes I wonder if winter is Earth’s way of saying, ‘Calm down, everybody. Go inside and chill for a bit. Read a book or something.’”
– Unknown
“The best thing about a winter storm is knowing you don’t have to go anywhere.”
– Garrison Keillor
“Winter is like a house guest who stays too long.”
– Mae West
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“I have a love/hate relationship with winter. I love it when I’m inside looking out, and hate it when I’m outside looking in.”
– Steve Martin
“The main difference between winter and summer is that in winter you’re paying to stay warm and in summer you’re paying to stay cool.”
– Rip Miller
Short Winter Quotes
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot conquer.”
– Saul Bellow
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Winter is a poem written in snow.”
– Katherine May
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Winter whispers poetry to the soul.”
– Terri Guillemets
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch
“Winter is earth’s slumber time.”
– Unknown
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.”
– Anders Swanson
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Winter strips things down to their essence.”
– Jennifer McMahon
“Winter is a state of mind.”
– Unknown
“Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, their beards of icicles and snow.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Winter light is so beautiful and so pure.”
– Unknown
“There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.”
– Bill Veeck
“Winter delights the heart.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“Winter reveals the bones of the landscape.”
– Sarah Kelly
“Winter is coming.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Winter adds a whole new dimension to life.”
– Rip Miller
“Winter has its own warmth and nurture for the soul.”
– Unknown
“Winter brings reflection upon the past and future.”
– Anna Longe
“Winter awakens all of my soul and body.”
– Unknown
“Winter carries a blessing in disguise. Notice it.”
– Unknown
“Winter dreams of springtime’s promise.”
– Mary Oliver
“Winter tests what summer blessed.”
– Elise Green
Want more inspiration and motivation for the season? Check out these December quotes and also these inspirational Christmas quotes and the funny Christmas quotes in this post. Plus, the 120 short Christmas quotes here.