Quotations About Winter

Every gardener knows that under the cloak of winter lies a miracle ... a seed waiting to sprout, a bulb opening to the light, a bud straining to unfurl. And the anticipation nurtures our dream. ~ Barbara Winkler

If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. ~ St. John Chrysostom

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come-- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb. ~ W. B. Yeats

For the ignorant, old age is as winter; for the learned, it is a harvest. ~ Jewish Proverb

All Nature seems at work. Slugs leave their lair- The bees are stirring - birds are on the wing - And Winter slumbering in the open air, Wears on his smiling face a dream of Spring! And I the while, the sole unbusy thing, Nor honey make, nor pair, nor build, nor sing. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge


The world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. ~ John DaviesThe world's great age begins anew, The golden years return, The earth doth like a snake renew Her winter weeds outworn. - John Davies

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show. ~Andrew Wyeth


Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours." ~Robert Byrne


There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. ~Ruth Stout


One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff. ~Shirley Ann Grau


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


The tendinous part of the mind, so to speak, is more developed in winter; the fleshy, in summer. I should say winter had given the bone and sinew to literature, summer the tissues and the blood. ~John Burroughs


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


Every mile is two in winter. ~George Herbert



I was just thinking, if it is really religion with these nudist colonies, they sure must turn atheists in the wintertime. ~Will Rogers


Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.
~Charles Kingsley


To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. ~W.J. Vogel


O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
~Percy Bysshe Shelley


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


One kind word can warm three winter months. ~Japanese Proverb