There’s something magical about snow.
It makes the world a more quiet, beautiful and cozy place to live in.
And it makes any kid – and the child that lives inside us grownups too – joyous and delighted about the possibilities for snowball fights, snow castles and going skiing.
So in today’s post, as I look out at the wonderful winter landscape outside my window, I want to share 90 of the most beautiful, funny and inspirational snow quotes.
Use them for your Instagram posts, your letter board, group chats or texts or simply to make your own winter day a happier place to be.
Beautiful and Inspirational Snow Quotes
“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
“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
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
– Aristotle
“Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.”
– Angie Weiland-Crosby
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
– Albert Camus
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.”
– J.B. Priestley
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.”
– Carol Rifka Brunt
“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
– Vesta M. Kelly
“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
“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
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”
– Hal Borland
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”
– Sara Raasch
“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 is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”
– Victor Hugo
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”
– John Burroughs
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”
– Pietro Aretino
“Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?”
– Percy Bysshe Shelley
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
– Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“The snow falls soft and unfathomable, drawing the world down to a whitened hush, forcing us (as few things do) to pause long enough to take stock of everything that we miss in our crazed pursuit to gain everything that we can.”
– Craig D. Lounsbrough
“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
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
– John Steinbeck
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen
“It was the kind of snow that brought children running out their doors, made them turn their faces skyward, and spin in circles with their arms outstretched.”
– Eowyn Ivey
Short Snow Quotes for Your Instagram and Letter Board
“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleeff
“The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.”
– Lama Willa Miller
“The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?”
– Lara Biyuts
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.”
– Alice Childress
“Be like snow – cold but beautiful.”
– Lana Del Rey
“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.”
– Roger Ebert
“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.”
– Andy Goldsworthy
“The snow fell as softly as a poet’s tears.”
– Kevin Ansbro
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.”
– Anamika Mishra
“Nothing burns like the cold.”
– George R.R. Martin
“Snow is the truth only when it’s snowing.”
– Marty Rubin
“With luck, it might even snow for us.”
– Haruki Murakami
“Winter is a poem written in snow.”
– Katherine May
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
– Yoko Ono
“We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.”
– Walter Scott
“Winter strengthens what summer cannot conquer.”
– Saul Bellow
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
– Robert Frost
“Winter teaches patience.”
– Anita Krizzan
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Winter is the king of showmen.”
– Ogden Nash
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.”
– Marty Rubin
“In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.”
– Henry Rollins
Funny Snow Quotes That Will Make You Laugh
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”
– Carl Reiner
“Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.”
– Bill Watterson
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.”
– Markus Zusak
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– E.E. Cummings
“If snow melts down to water, does it still remember being snow?”
– Jennifer McMahon
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”
– Rose Bergman
“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up and at ’em!’”
– Robert Byrne
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.”
– Bill Watterson
“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
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.”
– Sinclair Lewis
“Summer bodies are made in the winter.”
– Krissy Turner
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.”
– Anton Chekhov
“I was just thinking, if it really is religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheist in the wintertime.”
– Will Rogers
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Get inside!’”
– Bill Watterson
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”
– Patricia Briggs
“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
“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
“Winter is like a house guest who stays too long.”
– Mae West
“The best thing about a winter storm is knowing you don’t have to go anywhere.”
– Garrison Keillor
“Winter: My new excuse for everything.”
– Elise Green
Cute, Aesthetic and Deep Snow Quotes
“I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.”
– Sylvia Plath
“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.”
– Susan Orlean
“It snowed all week. Wheels and footsteps moved soundlessly on the street, as if the business of living continued secretly behind a pale but impenetrable curtain.”
– Truman Capote
“Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.”
– William Hamilton Gibson
“Snow is what it does. It falls and it stays and it goes.”
– Frederick Seidel
“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
– Novala Takemoto
“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
– Sarah Addison Allen
“The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow.”
– Robert Walser
“With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.”
– Percy Miller
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
– Ben Aaronovitch
“Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams.”
– Anthony T. Hincks
“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
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”
– George R.R. Martin
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.”
– Dean Koontz
“I am staring at the view out of the window, which is like a giant snow globe. Someone has shaken my world and I’m watching as it rearranges itself.”
– Mae Leveson
“Some people spend their entire lives seeing the snow without ever seeing the magic in the existence of one snowflake.”
– Emily Littlejohn
“I love the silent, snowy world of winter mornings.”
– Ursula Dubosarsky
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.”
– Ali Smith
“Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer’s welcome thrice more wish’d, more rare.”
– William Shakespeare
“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 is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug. To let your thoughts catch up with your body.”
– Kelsi Turner
Want more inspiration for this season? Then have a look at these inspirational winter quotes, the short February quotes here and also this post that’s filled with short winter quotes.