Winter can be a tough one. And the longer it goes on the heavier it can feel.
With the short and cold days. The long evenings and nights of darkness.
But also with striking beauty, cozy cups of tea or cocoa with a book or simply just some extra rest and reflection.
And in today’s post I’d like to share 101 of the most positive, funny and motivational short winter quotes and sayings.
To help you to renew your energy and inspiration, to find comfort on tough days and to make this winter yours.
Short Winter Quotes for a Positive and Happy Season
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
– Vivian White
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“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
“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
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event.”
– J.B. Priestley
“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
“One kind word can warm three winter months.”
– Japanese Proverb
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“Every winter has its spring.”
– H. Tuttle
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch
“Winter delights the heart.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“Winter has its own warmth and nurture for the soul.”
– Anna Longe
Short and Funny Winter Quotes for Less Stress
“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
“Never take shortcuts in winter.”
– Bear Grylls
“The best thing about a winter storm is knowing you don’t have to go anywhere.”
– Garrison Keillor
“One of the best things about winter is the hot chocolate and fuzzy socks combo.”
– Elise Green
“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
“Snow brings a special quality with it – the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.”
– Nancy Hatch Woodward
“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
“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 problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“Winter is like a house guest who stays too long.”
– Mae West
“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
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.”
– Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime.”
– Will Rogers
“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
Inspirational and Short Winter Vibes Quotes for Instagram
“Winter whispers poetry to the soul.”
– Terri Guillemets
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”
– Sylvia Plath
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“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
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
“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
“Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.”
– Ruth Stout
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot conquer.”
– Saul Bellow
“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
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“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
“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
“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
Motivational and Short Winter Quotes for Work and Success
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.”
– Noam Chomsky
“Surrendering to the fact of winter is a relief: I am grateful for these lingering days of cold. They offer me a few more weeks of quiet and slow before spring emerges.”
– Kelsi Turner
“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
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.”
– Debasish Mridha
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring.”
– Jack Kornfield
“The winter is a slow time, but it is also a time of getting ready.”
– Theodore Roethke
“Winter is the time for stories, staying warm and learning about ourselves.”
– Rip Miller
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“Winter is coming, we know what’s coming with it. We can learn to live with the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.”
– Murray Pura
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination.”
– Gary Zukav
“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
“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
“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.”
– Edmund Hillary
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind – a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.”
– John Geddes
Short, Cute and Beautiful Winter Quotes for Your Letterboard
“Winter is a poem written in snow.”
– Katherine May
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.”
– James Ellis
“Winter strips things down to their essence.”
– Jennifer McMahon
“Winter is a state of mind.”
– Unknown
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Winter light is so beautiful and so pure.”
– Unknown
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“The truth about life is revealed in winter.”
– Jim Harper
“It’s cold. It’s also beautiful. I love it so.”
– Unknown
“Winter adds a whole new dimension to life.”
– Rip Miller
“Winter brings reflection upon the past and future.”
– Anna Longe
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– E.E. Cummings
“Winter awakens all of my soul and body.”
– Unknown
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.”
– Anne Bradstreet
“This cold season tests what summer blessed.”
– Elise Green
“Winter carries a blessing in disguise. Notice it.”
– Unknown
“There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.”
– Bill Veeck
“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.”
– Anders Swanson
“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
“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.”
– William Shakespeare
“Winter dreams of springtime’s promise.”
– Mary Oliver
Want more inspiration for the season? Then take a look at these inspirational winter quotes, this one with short December quotes and this post with beautiful and uplifting January quotes.