There’s many reasons to love winter, maybe it’s the snow days, the delicious taste of hot cocoa or the anticipation of the holidays. As you bundle up and make gift lists for your loved ones — make sure to celebrate the beauty of the season with the help of a good book (or a mean winter cocktail) by the fireplace. Here are 35 of the perfect quotes to get you in the mood for this year’s winter, some of which include the wise words of Emerson, Thoreau, and Aristotle.
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"To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold."
- Aristotle
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"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."
- John Steinbeck
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"Nothing burns like the cold."
- George R.R. Martin
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"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
- Albert Camus
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"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
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"O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?"
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"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 time for home."
- Edith Sitwell
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"They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter."
- Italian Proverb
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"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
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"'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
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"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day."
- Elizabeth Bowen
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"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
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"The fire is winter's fruit."
- Arabian Proverb
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"A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter."
- Patricia Briggs, Dragon's Blood
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"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy."
- Anton Chekhov
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"Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart."
- Victor Hugo
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"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
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"I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove."
- Jack Kerouac
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"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland
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"The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination."