100 Winter Quotes for That Frosty Morning Mood
Welcome to winter, a time of frosty weather and cozy moments!
Looking for the perfect short winter quotes for your Instagram captions?
We’ve gathered the best ones right here. From the crisp air and fresh snow to frosty trees and snowball fights, capture the magic of the season with these memorable sayings.
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Our Best Winter Quotes for Instagram
“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” — Leo Sayer
“In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.” — James Ellis
“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
“Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.” — Neil Hilborn
“Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.” — Anne Morrough Lindbergh
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.” — Debasish Mridha
“I need a long, cold winter.” — John Rzeznik
“Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.” — Victor Hugo
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” — Marty Rubin
“The winter is a slow time, but it’s not lifeless.” — Beth Botts
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” — Virginia Woolf
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind–a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” — John Geddes
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo
“By March, the worst of the winter would be over.” — Neil Gaiman
“We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm.” — Philip Pullman
“At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare, and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.” — Gary Zukav
“Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” — Ruth Stout
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.” — Roman Payne
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” — Vivian White
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” — Robert Frost
“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.” — Anders Swanson
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake
“Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tim Allen
“Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.” — Noelle Vignola
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets
“I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter’s tough, but spring’s coming. I believe that there’s a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow.” — Steve Southerland
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux
“The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” – Lama Willa Miller
“I think snow is so evocative and has such a powerful atmosphere.” – Kate Bush
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Markus Zusak
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt with silence.” — Dean Koontz
“Love is a snowflake for no two are ever the same.” ― Kamand Kojouri
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” — Anne Bradstreet
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” — Elizabeth Camden
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
“There was a silver lining tucked into last weekend’s blizzard.” — Liz Krieger
“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
“Surrendering to the fact of winter is a relief: I am grateful for these lingering days of cold.” — Kelsi Turner
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino
“Winter is probably my favorite time of year.” — Laura Frankel
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside.” — Thomas De Quincey
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” — Noam Chomsky
“With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.” – Percy Miller
“Sunshine cannot bleach the snow, Nor time unmake what poets know. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The first snow is like the first love.” – Lara Biyuts
“Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.” – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
“The most delightful advantage of being bald—one can hear snowflakes.” – R. G. Daniels
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.” – Alice Childress
“Every snowflake is unique, yet they are each perfect.” – Donald L. Hicks
“Catching snowflakes on your tongue brings you back to childhood.” – Laynni Locke
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” —Ben Aaronovitch
“Every winter has its spring.” —H. Tuttle
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” —Hal Borland
“He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” —John Burroughs
“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” —Nancy Hatch Woodward
“And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain.” —Dan Fogelberg
“Wisdom comes with winters.” —Oscar Wilde
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” —Marty Rubin
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” —Murray Pura
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” —Dean Koontz
“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.” —Deirdre Sullivan
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” —Sinclair Lewis
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” —Henry David Thoreau
“Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” —Mehmet Murat Ildan
“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
“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
“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” —Yoko Ono
“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
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” —J.R.R. Tolkien
“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” —J.B. Priestly
“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” —Charles Dickens
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” —Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” —Albert Camus
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind—a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” —John Geddes
“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
“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” —Andy Goldsworthy
“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
“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” —Thomas De Quincey
“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
“Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow.” —T.S. Eliot
“No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” —Kenneth Grahame
“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
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” —Anton Chekhov
“Because the birdsong might be pretty, But it’s not for you they sing, And if you think my winter is too cold, You don’t deserve my spring.” —Erin Hanson
“Grace grows best in winter.” —Samuel Rutherford
“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
“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” —Henry Rollins
“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
“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” —J.K. Rowling
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” —George R.R. Martin
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” —Pietro Aretino
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” —Tom Allen
“The frosty winters bind us in a quiet reflection and hopeful anticipation for the renewal that spring will bring.” —Unknown
“A blanket of snow provides a clean slate, upon which the world can rewrite itself anew.” —Unknown
