100 Cold Weather Quotes
When winter’s chill arrives, it transforms our world in remarkable ways.
These cold weather quotes capture both the sharp bite of winter and its serene beauty.
Here, you’ll find expressions that paint vivid pictures of frost-covered windows and misty breath hanging in the air.
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“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
“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
“Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we’d have frozen to death.” – Mark Twain
“In the cold dark days of the winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“Man dies of cold, not of darkness.” – Miguel de Unamuno
“It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather.” – George Eliot
“I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.” – Jack Kerouac
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” – Anton Chekhov
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” – Terri Guillemets
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” – Pietro Aretino
“Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer a painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
“Every mile is two in the winter.” – George Herbert
“Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.” – George Kotsiopoulos
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” – Andrew Wyeth
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.” – Sir Ranulph Fiennes
“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
“Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.” – Oscar Wilde
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” – Morgan Freeman
“This weather is almost colder than my heart.” – Unknown
“In cold weather a good rule is to light your fire first before doing anything else. It is always more sensible to keep yourself warm rather than trying to thaw yourself out later.” – Mors Kochanski
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” – Dr. Seuss
“The cold cut like a many bladed knife.” – Israel Zangwill
“If you are cold at night, let the promise of my love cover you like a warm blanket.” – Matthew White
“Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” – Bill Watterson
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“It was so cold I almost got married.” – Shelly Winters
“It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.” – Chinese Proverbs
“In a very cold night, even houses want to have houses of their own to enter inside them and feel warm!” – Mehmet Murat ildan
“Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.” – Mark Twain
“Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.” – Anne Bradstreet
“It was so cold today that I saw a dog chasing a cat, and the dog was walking.” – Mickey Rivers
“It was so cold that the Statue of Liberty put the torch INSIDE her dress.” – Unknown
“Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R.R. Martin
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” – Noam Chomsky
“One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.” – Paul Theroux
“Three feet of ice does not result from one day of cold weather.” – Chinese Proverbs
“The cold never bothered me anyway.” – Elsa
“Warm weather fosters growth: cold weather destroys it. Thus a man with an unsympathetic temperament has a scant joy: but a man with a warm and friendly heart overflowing blessings, and his beneficence will extend to posterity.” – Hung Tzu-Ch’eng
“Scarves, mittens, and hats are a great way to express your personality in the cold weather.” – Brad Goreski
“If the world is cold, make it your business to build fires.” – Horace Traubel
“It is so cold out there, my head nearly fell off.” – Mark Mckinney
“Who knows how long the cold weather will last.” – Joe Williams
“Dear soul, begin this wintry month with your God. Let the cold snow and piercing wind remind you He keeps His covenant with you day and night.” – Jim Reimann
“Winter in the soul can be an uncomfortable season as well.” – Jim Reimann
“Winter is a season that sparkles with magic and transforms our ordinary world into a glittering kingdom.” – Abi Elphinstone
“The rain was turning rapidly into snow. A bit too rapidly.” – Abi Elphinstone
“I wouldn’t like to return to those harsh cold days of my childhood.” – Sheila Brook
“The playground was an exciting place but it could be a little dangerous during icy weather or after snow had fallen.” – Sheila Brook
“Winter had set in before the leaf had fallen from the last oaks; already there had been a fortnight or more of severe cold, with hardly any snow.” – Mary Augusta Ward
“The mountain was covered with snow which looked bluish in color. Tiny silver stars that seemed to be nestled in the blue-colored snow sparkled in the cold night air.” – Marsha V. Poulin
“The first cold shower / even the monkey seems to want / a little coat of straw.” – Matsuo Basho
“Winter brings colder temperatures and snow to many regions. Snow makes everything very quiet and alters the landscape.” – Beth Eaglescliffe
“During blizzards everything about the railroad was melodramatic.” – Sinclair Lewis
“Let’s drink the liquid of amber so bright / Let’s drink the liquid with foam snowy white / Let’s drink the liquid that brings all good cheer / Oh, where is the drink like old-fashioned beer?” – Nineteenth-century toast
“With hoary frost He strews the ground / His hail descends with dreadful sounds / His icy bands the rivers hold / And terrors arms his wintry cold… His steady counsels change the face / Of the declining year / He bids the sun cut short his race / And wintry days appear.” – Psalm 147
“The rains of autumn have now fairly yielded to the frosts of winter: our long season of cold weather has set in.” – Philip Henry Gosse
“And skies their wintry sternness wear.” – Philip Henry Gosse
“Yet winter is not altogether cheerless; by searching we may yet find a few subjects worthy of investigation, and capable of affording amusement and instruction to the mind; nature is never barren of lessons of wisdom, to him who possesses a mind willing to receive them.” – Philip Henry Gosse
“The wintry weather is becoming with us a somewhat serious matter. We have still, as we have had for a long time, a considerable depth of snow, covering everything and preventing all ground work.” – Robert Hogg
“I have been wandering in the cold, wintry winds of this life, enduring with sorrow its frosts, not knowing where to turn, or whether to direct my footsteps to find shelter.” – J.M.Usher
“It is now winter, dead winter. Desolation and silence reign in the fields. No singing of birds is heard, no humming of insects. The streams murmur no longer, they are locked up with frost.” – J.M.Usher
“Yes, the cold wintry winds, the snow and frosts, the cares and anxieties of this life, are all sent to life to teach us to loosen our grasp upon things in this world and to draw us near to him.” – J.M.Usher
“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” – Voltaire
“Cold is first of all experience, a sensation acquired and intensified by an absence of sensation, the benumbing of freezing itself anesthetizing.” – Donald Anderson, Aritha van Herk
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” – William Blake
“Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” – Victor Hugo
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“Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.” – Emily Wing Smith
“The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.” – Benjamin Alire Saenz
“Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.” – Alice Childress
“What good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness? Life is full of contrasts; it’s what makes it worth living.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?” – Lara Biyuts
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on.” – Carol Rifka Brunt
“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 forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tom Allen
“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Markus Zusak
“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
“Some people are worth melting for.” – Olaf
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” – Anamika Mishra
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.” – J.B. Priestley
“Winter is coming.” – George R.R. Martin
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R.R. Martin
“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.” – Norwegian Proverb
“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.” – Andy Goldsworthy
“I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?” – Lewis Carroll
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” – Sara Raasch
“The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” – Roger Ebert
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.” – Unknown
“Winter is nature’s way of saying, ‘Up yours.'” – Robert Byrne
“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” – Robert Frost
“Winter lingered so long in the lap of Spring that it occasioned a great deal of talk.” – Bill Nye
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant.” – Anne Bradstreet
“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
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” – Paul Theroux
“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
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“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 passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” – Yoko Ono
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” – Japanese Proverb
“The winter wind is loud and wild, come close to me, my darling child.” – Mary Howitt
“A winter’s day has a beauty all its own.” – Madeleine L’Engle
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” – Ben Aaronovitch
“Winter dawn is the color of metal, the trees stiffen into place like burnt nerves.” – Sylvia Plath
“The first winter rain makes all the world look fresh and clean.” – Unknown
“Winter reminds us that everyone and everything needs some quiet time.” – Katrina Mayer
“When old Winter puts his blank face to the glass, I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight.” – John Ashbery
“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” – Carl Reiner
“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
Cute Cold Weather Quotes
“I’m sorry for the things i said when it was winter”.
“My relationship with winter is like my relationship with math… I’ve got problems.”
“Cold night, large sweater, warm tea, good book, soft socks, and box of chocolate”
“Dear Winter, I’m breaking up with you. I think it’s time I start seeing other seasons.”
“I want to be the girl he gives his hoodie to wear and cuddles up next to when its cold.”
“Hibernation is looking really good right now.”
“Winter is like a clingy ex that just won’t leave.”
“My favorite winter activity is going back inside.”
“Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.”
“Winter: The season when you finally understand why bears sleep for months.”
“Cold weather is nature’s way of telling us to cuddle more.”
“All I need is a cupcake and a blanket to survive winter.”
“Dear Winter, please be cool and leave. Sincerely, Everyone.”
“My bed is my best friend during winter.”
“Winter is the season where ‘just 5 more minutes’ becomes 2 more hours.”
“I’m not lazy, I’m just in winter power-saving mode.”
“The only thing getting me through winter is the thought of summer.”
“Dear Weather, make up your mind. Sincerely, My Closet.”
“Winter is coming… and so are my excuses to stay inside.”
“If winter were a person, I’d unfollow them on social media.”
“My winter survival kit: blankets, Netflix, and endless snacks.”
“Winter’s motto: If you’re cold, they’re cold. Bring your snacks inside.”
“Currently accepting applications for a professional blanket warmer.”
“Winter is proof that Mother Nature has a sense of humor.”
“Relationship status: cuddling with my heater.”
“Sorry I’m late, I had to defrost first.”
“Winter is like that houseguest who doesn’t know when to leave.”
