50 First Day of Winter Quotes for Those Chill Days
The first day of winter is here, bringing frosty mornings and cozy vibes, so we’ve put together a list of all the best first day of winter quotes for your next post.
And if you’re looking for short and festive sayings to celebrate the season, we also have you covered.
Now go ahead and browse through to find your favorite.
Our Best First Day of Winter Quotes
“Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” — Ben Aaronovitch, “Broken Homes”
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch, “Snow Like Ashes”
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono
“Every winter has its spring.” — H. Tuttle
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake
“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
“Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” — Nancy Hatch Woodward
“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” — Anton Chekhov
“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
“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, “Tell the Wolves I’m Home”
“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
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” — Victor Hugo
“Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino
“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
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” — Vivian White
“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” — Sylvia Plath, “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”
“Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” — George R.R. Martin, “A Feast for Crows”
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” — John Steinbeck, “Travels with Charley: In Search of America”
“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” — Leo Sayer
“The only other sound’s the sweep, Of easy wind and downy flake.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
“And as I turned to make my way back home, the snow turned into rain.” — Dan Fogelberg, “Auld Lang Syne”
“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
“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.” — Anders Swanson
“Winter is not a season, it’s an occupation.” — Sinclair Lewis
“Nothing burns like the cold.” — George R.R. Martin
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen
“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
“Summer is the time for squabbles. In winter, we must protect one another, keep each other warm, share our strengths.” — George R.R. Martin
“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” — Alexandra Guarnaschelli
“Winter is nature’s sleep.” — H. S. Jacobs
“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, “Lipstick Jungle”
“Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” — John Geddes
“It’s so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can’t see beyond yourself.” — Patricia A. McKillip
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!” — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” — Marty Rubin
“Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.” — Debasish Mridha
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” — Henry David Thoreau, “A Winter Walk”
“Surrendering to the fact of winter is a relief: I am grateful for these lingering days of cold. They offer me a few more weeks of quiet and slow before spring emerges, the wheel picks up speed again, and the sound of its exciting spinning fills my days.” — Kelsi Turner
“When snow falls, nature listens.” — Antoinette Van Kleeff
“Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.” — Deirdre Sullivan
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” — Elizabeth Camden
“I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” — Noam Chomsky
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” — Dean Koontz
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” — Ali Smith
“If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono
“Love has different shape, like this falling snow in winter.” — Rizki De
“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”
“One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too, so that the summer, when it arrives, is the more gratefully received.” — Beatriz Williams, “Along the Infinite Sea”
“Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.” — Anders Swanson
“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
