40+ Epic Quotes, Wishes, and Sayings About Winter & Snowfall

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.”? Edith Sitwell

“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

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” ? Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ode to the West Wind

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.”? George R.R. Martin, A Feast for Crows

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.”? Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.”? Patricia Briggs, Dragon Blood

“Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.”? Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes

“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.” [Meditations Divine and Moral]”? Anne Bradstreet, The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron, with hard frosts every morning and icy drafts that bit at exposed hands and faces.”? J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”? George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

“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.’” – Lewis Carroll

“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fire: it is time for home.” – Edith Sitwell

“Hear! hear!’ screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, ‘winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel if you know where to look for it.’” – Henry David Thoreau

“The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We feel cold, but we don’t mind it, because we will not come to harm. And if we wrapped up against the cold, we wouldn’t feel other things, like the bright tingle of the stars, or the music of the aurora, or best of all the silky feeling of moonlight on our skin. It’s worth being cold for that.” – Philip Pullman, The Golden Compass

“My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” – George R.R. Martin

“I love the scents of winter! For me, it’s all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin spice, cinnamon, nutmeg, gingerbread, and spruce.” – Taylor Swift

“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

“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

“Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they enjoy is feeling proof against it.” – Richard Adams

“Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken.” – Alex Guarnaschelli

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” – Thomas de Quincey

“When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I’m even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter.” – Jarod Kintz

“Blow ye winds, as the trumpet blows, but without that noise.” – Jack Handley

“Snowfall and winter gives us more reasons to cuddle”

“Discover the beauty of winter.”

“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

“Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“If you listen carefully, the winter silence is beautiful.”

“We are like a snowflake, all different in our beautiful way.”

“What is it called when a snowman has a temper tantrum? A: A meltdown!”

“What do you call a snowman with a six-pack? An abdominal snowman.”

“There’s no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes.”

“It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.” – Charles Dickens

“To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.” – W.J. Vogel

“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose if there were no winter in our year!” – Thomas Wentworth Higginson

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo

“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

“The fire is winter’s fruit.” – Arabian Proverb

“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away from the cold.” – Ben Aaronovitch

“That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” – Ali Smith

“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.” – E.B. White

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.” – Gustave Flaubert, November

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

“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

“January brings the snow, makes our feet and fingers glow.” – Sara Coleridge

“A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” – Markus Zuzak

“Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.” – Andy Goldsworthy

“A snowflake is one of God’s most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!” – Unknown

“Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

“Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.” – John Burnside

“Snow brings a special quality with it—the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” – Nancy Hatch Woodward

“The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” – Lama Willa

“The first fall of snow is not only an event, but it is also a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different.” – J.B. Priestley

“A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky—unbidden—and seems like a thing of wonder.” – Susan Orlean

“Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow.” – Edmund Hillary

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” – Sarah Addison Allen

“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.’” – Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland