Winter Quotes

• No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

  Hal Borland

  Inspirational, Change, Meaningful

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• 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

  Good Night, Summer, Nature

  Lewis Carroll (1896). “Through the Looking-glass: And what Alice Found There”, p.4, PDFreeBooks.org

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• Even in winter it shall be green in my heart.

  Frederic Chopin

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.106, Courier Corporation

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  In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.

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• The days are short,
  The sun a spark
  Hung thin between
  The dark and dark.

  John Updike

  Dark, Sparks, Sun

  John Updike, Nancy Ekholm Burkert (1989). “A Child's Calendar”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If we had not winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Inspirational, Life, Appreciation

  Anne Bradstreet, Adelaide P. Amore (1982). “A woman's inner world: selected poetry and prose of Anne Bradstreet”

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• Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

  Anamika Mishra

  Celebration, Seasons

  Twitter post from Dec 2, 2015

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• Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sunshine, Fire, Equal

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1008, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Book, Hands, Circles

  Pablo Neruda (1986). “Winter garden”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

  John Burroughs

  Stars, Moon, Fire

  John Burroughs, Farida Anna Wiley (1997). “John Burroughs' America: Selections from the Writings of the Naturalist”, p.123, Courier Corporation

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• 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

  Leadership, Hope, Motivation

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• The cold was our pride, the snow was our beauty. It fell and fell, lacing day and night together in a milky haze, making everything quieter as it fell, so that winter seemed to partake of religion in a way no other season did, hushed, solemn.

  Patricia Hampl

  Pride, Night, Snow

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• Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

  Victor Hugo

  Nature, Spring, Heart

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• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Spring, Adversity, Greatest Wealth

  Anne Bradstreet (1867). “The Works of Anne Bradstreet in Prose and Verse”, p.51

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• 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

  Fire, Air, Soul

  John Burroughs (1875). “Winter Sunshine”, p.14

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• People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

  Anton Chekhov

  Happiness, Happy, Summer

  'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2

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• 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

  Home, Weather, Fire

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black

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• Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snowmen And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite. That’s the season to be young, Catching snowflakes on your tongue. Snow is snowy when it’s snowing, I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.

  Ogden Nash

  Kings, Sorry, Cake

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• Everything is everything
  What is meant to be, will be
  After winter, must come spring
  Change, it comes eventually

  Lauryn Hill

  Inspirational, Life, Spring

  Song: EVERYTHING IS EVERYTHING Album 'The Miseducation Of Lau, Album: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

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• What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

  John Steinbeck

  Summer, Weather, Snow

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• Grace grows best in winter.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Grace, Grows

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• Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.

  Virginia Woolf

  Good Night, Sound, Melancholy

  Virginia Woolf (2015). “Jacob's Room”, p.46, Booklassic

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• So with the stretch of the white road before me,
  Shining snow crystals rainbowed by the sun,
  Fields that are white, stained with long, cool, blue shadows,
  Strong with the strength of my horse as we run.
  Joy in the touch of the wind and the sunlight!
  Joy! With the vigorous earth I am one.

  Amy Lowell

  Running, Strong, Horse

  Amy Lowell (2009). “A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass”, p.16, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• One may prefer spring and summer to autumn and winter, but preference is hardly to the point. The earth turns, and we live in the grain of nature, turning with it.

  Robert Hass

  Summer, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Hass (1984). “Twentieth century pleasures: prose on poetry”, Ecco Pr

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