55 Hello December Quotes and Sayings
December is here and everything changes.
The year is ending. The holidays are coming. There’s this mix of excitement and exhaustion that only December brings.
It’s the busiest month but also the most reflective. You’re rushing around while also thinking about everything that happened this year.
Starting December with intention helps. A moment to pause before the chaos really kicks in.
These hello December quotes capture that feeling. They’re about welcoming the last month with gratitude and maybe a little bit of hope.
Short Hello December Quotes
“In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.” — Alexander Pope
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” — James M. Barrie
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” — Fennel Hudson
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember.” — Oliver Herford
“December, the final chapter of the year, reminds us to finish strong.” — Oprah Winfrey
“December is the time for remembering the past and hoping for the future.” — Charles Dickens
“Welcome December. A month of lights, snow, and feasts.” — Anita Krizzan
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December, A magical thing, And sweet to remember: ‘We are nearer to spring Than we were in September.'” — Oliver Herford
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” — Fennel Hudson
“When dark December glooms the day, and takes our autumn joys away.” — Walter Scott
“How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year. What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen? What old December’s bareness everywhere.” — William Shakespeare
“The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills of gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
“Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December. And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.” — Edgar Allan Poe
“Nothing burns like the cold.” — George R.R. Martin
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.” — Roman Payne
“A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.” — Kiran Bantawa
“He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December.” — Charlotte Riddell
“Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?” — Clement Scott
“December was a horrible month.” — Sandy Bryant
“By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.” — Will Chancellor
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. December is a month of hope.” — Hal Borland
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” — Vivian Swift
“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.” — Mehmet Murat ildan
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” — Elizabeth Camden
“Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.” — Elizabeth Bowen
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.” — Lisa Kleypas
“As soon seek roses in December, ice in June; hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; believe a woman or an epitaph, or any other thing that’s false, before you trust in critics.” — Lord Byron
“Will you love me in December as you do in May?” — Jack Kerouac
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold!” — Edgar Allan Poe
“In drear-nighted December, too happy, happy brook, thy bubblings ne’er remember Apollo’s summer look; but with a sweet forgetting, they stay their crystal fretting, never, never petting about the frozen time.” — John Keats
“And last December drear, with piteous low-drooped head. In a voice of desolation crying out, ‘The year is dead. And so, with changeful gear, with smile or frown or song, the months, in strange variation, are ever gliding along.” — Edgar Fawcett
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.” — John Geddes
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” — Dylan Thomas
“December is a bewitching month. The grey of cold teases to explode into something worthwhile, into a dream of cold, a starlight shower you can taste, a cold that does not chill.” — Joseph Coelho
“Kindness is like snow—it beautifies everything it covers.” — Kahlil Gibran
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino
“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Winter bites with its teeth or lashes with its tail.” — Montenegrin Proverb
“Great power lies in falling snow.” — Laurie Halse Anderson
“Every mile is two in winter.” — George Herbert
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” — Ben Aaronovitch
“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
“Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, when do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below all that chill December snow?” — Edmund Clarence Stedman
“Once the inner connection is more real than anything outside, there is no difference between the season of life and the season of the year.” — John C. Lilly
“December is a time for family, for love, and for forgiveness.” — Caroline Myss
“How did it get so late so soon?” — Dr. Seuss
“There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.” — Bob Phillips
“December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.” — Winston Churchill
“This looks like a December day, it looks like we’ve come to the end of the way.” — Willie Nelson
“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.” — Emily Jane Bronte
