60 Winter Night Quotes That Capture the Season’s Magic
Winter night quotes celebrate the stillness and beauty of the season’s darkest hours.
They offer comfort and reflection when the world outside grows cold.
Short Winter Night Quotes
“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter’s night.” – Virginia Woolf
“Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Now winter nights enlarge the number of their hours… clouds their storms discharge upon the airy towers.” – Thomas Campion
“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body and they seem to issue from nothingness.” – Virginia Woolf
“I can remember… the hours I used to spend before frosted windows, seeing all kinds of fairylands…” – Anonymous college freshman, c.1916
“Though it was scarcely six o’clock, the night was already pitch-dark… A bitter wind, heavy with sleet, whipped at my face…” – Théophile Gautier
“When dark December glooms the day… upon the weary waste of snows…” – Sir Walter Scott
“Winter stars blaze in silent joy.” – Terri Guillemets
“I hide myself in the quiet white of winter and nestle in her comforting folds of cold oblivion.” – Terri Guillemets
“The earth tucked herself in for the year with winter’s frosty white blanket of snow.” – Terri Guillemets
“How fair thy cloudless noon! And through the leafless trees at night, with more than Summer’s soften’d light, shines thy resplendent moon.” – Bernard Barton
“A winter night… must be divided by a thick wall of dark nights from all return of light and sunshine.” – Thomas De Quincey
“Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” – Terri Guillemets
“Resist winter as you will — the cold will come.” – Terri Guillemets
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” – Ben Aaronovitch
“It is always winter now.” – George R. R. Martin
“Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.” – Emily Fridlund
“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
“Winter always came creeping up on you when you least expected it.” – Henning Mankell
“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” – Ali Smith
“Nothing burns like the cold.” – George R. R. Martin
“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings… the rain is falling through my heart…” – Gustave Flaubert
“No, I don’t miss you… Not in a way that one is missed. But I think of you… in the way that one might think of the summer sunshine on a winter night…” – Sreesha Divakaran
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.” – George R. R. Martin
“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
“Because the birdsong might be pretty… if you think my winter is too cold, you don’t deserve my spring.” – Erin Hanson
“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” – Patricia Briggs
“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” – Sara Raasch
“October extinguished itself… November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy draughts that bit at exposed hands and faces.” – J. K. Rowling
“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
“Soon comes the cold, and the night that never ends.” – George R. R. Martin
“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening.” – Virginia Woolf
“In winter’s tedious nights sit by the fire, with good old folks and let them tell thee tales.” – William Shakespeare
“Let the storm rage on; the cold never bothered me anyway.” – Elsa, Frozen
“The fire is winter’s fruit.” – Arabian Proverb
“Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” – Novala Takemoto
“The quiet of a winter night brings peace to the soul.” – Unknown
“There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” – Leo Sayer
“If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.” – Lucy Larcom
“Winter is the time to find beauty in the simple things, like a warm fire and a good book.”
“The warmth of a blanket on a cold winter’s night is the greatest comfort.”
“Winter nights are made for hot cocoa and soft blankets.” – Unknown
“On a winter night, even the stars shiver.”
“The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” – Dean Koontz
“I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” – John Geddes
“When snow falls, nature listens.” – Antoinette Van Kleeff
“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
“How fair thy cloudless noon! And through the leafless trees at night… shines thy resplendent moon.” – Bernard Barton
“Winter nights: long, dark, and full of wonder.” – Unknown
“The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify — it was like the light of truth itself.” – Willa Cather
“Winter came in days that were gray and still… and it was cold.” – Mildred D. Taylor
“There are adventures of the spirit… one need never be dull as long as one has books in the long winter evenings.” – D. E. Stevenson
“Winter is a time to slow… to let your thoughts catch up with your body.” – Kelsi Turner
“From traveling the vast white landscapes… it is obvious that winter has inspired creativity from within.” – Pavan Kalidindi
“Many of the phenomena of winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Winter is nature’s sleep.” – H. S. Jacobs
“What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” – Henry David Thoreau
“Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.”
“Hot chocolate is like a hug from the inside.”
“Winter nights teach us the art of stillness.”
