70 Inspirational December Quotes To Carry You Through The Final Month
December is both an ending and a beginning.
The year is closing but something new already feels like it’s starting. There’s chaos everywhere, the planning, the rush of it all.
In the middle of that, try to find stillness. To actually be present instead of just surviving until January.
These inspirational December quotes remind you to slow down inside. To let December be both heavy and beautiful.
What a gift, that even in the darkest month, we find reasons to gather light. To believe that endings and beginnings can happen at the same time.
Inspirational Winter Quotes
“December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Good morning, happy first day of December. Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.” Charles M. Schulz
“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.” Charles Dickens
“December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.” Oprah Winfrey
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” John Steinbeck
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.” Helen Keller
“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam.” Emily Brontë
“December is a month of invitation to forget ourselves in the service of others.” Robert Louis Stevenson
“No winter lasts forever. No spring skips its turn.” Hal Borland
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” Fennel Hudson
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” Vivian Swift
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” Albert Camus
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand.” Edith Sitwell
“Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers.” Kahlil Gibran
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing and sweet to remember.” Oliver Herford
“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.” Mehmet Murat İldan
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering it will be happier.” Alfred Lord Tennyson
“Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.” Hamilton Wright Mabie
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.” Sarah Kay
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” William Blake
“This crisp winter air is the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam.” John Burroughs
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” Aristotle
“Do your heart and head keep pace beneath all that chill December snow.” Edmund Clarence Stedman
“On cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.” Alexander Pope
“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.” Zinaida Gippius
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” J. M. Barrie
“No matter what my fortune may be, in December I’ll be going home.” Floyd Huddleston
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow felt like ghosts on dry toast.” Dylan Thomas
“Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.” Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
“Who is not a love seeker when December comes.” Rod McKuen
“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.” Andy Goldsworthy
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter.” Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“The color of winter is in the imagination.” Terri Guillemets
“What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen, what old December’s bareness everywhere.” William Shakespeare
“Evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon. December has its own perfume.” Lisa Kleypas
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now.” Carl Bard
“The snow did not even whisper its arrival.” Emily Dickinson
“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.” Victor Hugo
“The cold never bothered me anyway.” Hans Christian Andersen
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane.” John Geddes
“Every winter has its spring.” H. Tuttle
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” Tom Allen
“Winter is not a season. It is a celebration.” Anamika Mishra
“What is December without the silent hope of something new.” Jean Paul Richter
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” Paul Theroux
“The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.” J. B. Priestley
“Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” Yoko Ono
“Every mile is two in winter.” George Herbert
“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.” Susan Orlean
“I love the smell of winter. Freshness in the air.” Laura Ingalls Wilder
“Winter lies too long in country towns. It hangs on until it is stale and shabby.” Willa Cather
“Winter is a time to gather golden moments, embark on a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” John Boswell
“To appreciate the beauty of winter is to stand still and listen.” Debasish Mridha
“Winter teaches us that even the deepest freeze can be followed by renewal.” George R. R. Martin
“Winter collapses into hope.” Terri Guillemets
“The fire is winter’s fruit.” Arabian Proverb
“Winter is nature’s sleep.” H. S. Jacobs
“Winter changes everything, even the way the light falls.” Joyce Rupp
“Winter is on my head but the eternal spring is in my heart.” Victor Hugo
“In winter we behold the wonders of the stars.” Henry David Thoreau
“Winter is the season of reflection.” Richard Paul Evans
“Winter gives us the quiet we need to hear our own thoughts.” Katherine May
“There is no winter without snow. There is no spring without winter.” Hoang Chi Truong
“Winter is the time for stories, staying close, and dreaming together.” Ben Okri
“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” Novala Takemoto
“The heart can get really cold if you let it.” Haruki Murakami
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape.” Andrew Wyeth
“Winter is a season of soul searching.” Gabrielle Zevin
“The wind is lonely in December’s night.” Sara Teasdale
“December showers us with both darkness and light, and both are gifts.” Patti Smith
