Beautiful Winter Quotes Perfect for Cozy Season

Winter means one thing: It’s cozy season! Welcome cold weather with fuzzy blankets, nights spent by the fire and, of course, these beautiful winter quotes. Some people see the winter as bleak, but it’s really a season of rest and beauty that lets us truly appreciate the spring when it comes around again.

Only in the winter can you hope for snow days or try fun winter activities like ice skating or snow shoeing. And even though the days get darker, you can keep things light by going on a winter date or trying these winter crafts for kids. Or, go for an icy winter walk and snap some artistic pictures to post with a winter Instagram caption. There are so many great ways to celebrate! So make a hot chocolate, bundle up and read on for the best winter quotes that perfectly capture the cozy season.

Leo Sayer

There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.

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James Ellis

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

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Andrew Wyeth

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.

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Neil Hilborn

Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.

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Anne Morrough Lindbergh

Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me.

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Anamika Mishra

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

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Debasish Mridha

Summer is for surrendering; winter is for wondering.

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John Rzeznik

I need a long, cold winter.

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Ruth Stout

Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

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Roman Payne

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.

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Vivian White

December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.

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Robert Frost

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

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Anders Swanson

Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.

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William Blake

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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Mignon McLaughlin

Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

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Tim Allen

Winter forms our character and brings out our best.

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Noelle Vignola

Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude.

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Terri Guillemets

Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.

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Steve Southerland

I believe in four seasons. I believe that winter's tough, but spring's coming. I believe that there's a growing season. And I think that you realize that in life, you grow.

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Paul Theroux

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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Henry Rollins

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

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Bill Veeck

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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Pietro Aretino

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.

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John Geddes

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be unnecessary freezing of water.

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Ali Smith

That's what winter is: An exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

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H. Tuttle

Every winter has its spring.

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Anne Bradstreet

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.

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Gary Zukhav

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

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Nancy Hatch Woodward

Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.

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Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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Albert Camus

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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Aristotle

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

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Hal Borland

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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Lewis Carroll

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."

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Unknown

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.

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Ben Aaronovitch, "Broken Homes"

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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Edith Sitwell, "Taken Care Of"

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.

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Yoko Ono

Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

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John Boswell

Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.

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John Burroughs

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

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Carol Rifka Brunt, "Tell the Wolves I'm Home"

There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.

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Sylvia Plath, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.

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George R.R. Martin, "A Feast for Crows"

My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

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John Geddes, "A Familiar Rain"

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

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Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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Candace Bushnell

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.

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Novala Takemoto, "Missin'"

Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.

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Terri Guillemets

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.

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