quotations about winter
When you're walking around in 13-degree weather, the only reason it doesn't kill you is because, at some point, you come back inside. It's not that the weather isn't trying to kill you, it's just that you don't give it quite enough time to succeed.
MIKE TODD
"Just Humor Me: The Winter is our discontent", The Montgomery Review, April 4, 2017
In the winter, it is often difficult to get up and get moving, because it is so cold and dark outside. You wake up in the morning, when it's dark; when you return home from work, it's dark.
RAQUEL A. STUART
The Audacity of Self: Dare to Put You First
I love travelling during the winter. I take off to the mountains. The biting cold seems to open up all my senses and makes them sharper.
SANDEEP SINGH
"Cold is gold for tourism industry", The Statesman, February 7, 2016
All nature feels the renovating force
Of Winter, only to the thoughtless eye
In ruin seen.
JAMES THOMSON
"Winter", The Seasons
Technically, winter is way more stylish now than when we were kids. When I was in high school I wouldn't be caught dead in winter boots. Without naming names, we all know there are a variety of fashionable boots out there to complete any winter look at any age. Coats are nicer now, hats are adorable. But still. My hands are dry, my hair has static, my lips are cracked and I'm so very pale. Bronzer and vitamin E lipstick are my go to staples to get me through this season. That and visions of warmer days.
SIDRA RUBIN
"Why Winter Is Cramping My Style", The Suburban, February 1, 2016
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.
WILLA CATHER
My Antonia
I have myself in winter felt hostile to those whom I could smile upon in May, and clasp to my bosom in June.
JOSEPH DENNIE
The Spirit of the Farmers' Museum, and Lay Preacher's Gazette
When the winter puts on its sullen aspect, and brings stillness and repose, affording a respite from the labors of the preceding months, inviting us to reflection and compensating for the want of attractions abroad by fire-side delights and home-felt joys; in all this interchange and variety, we find reason to acknowledge the wise and benevolent care of the God of seasons.
MOSES SEVERANCE
The American Manual: Or, New English Reader
Winter finds out what summer lays up.
CORYATE
attributed, Day's Collacon
In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.
JAMES ELLIS
attributed, Day's Collacon
Winter is back, with or without snow.
KEVIN MYATT
"Winter is back, with or without snow", The Roanoke Times, March 14, 2017
What miracle of weird transforming
Is this wild work of frost and light,
This glimpse of glory infinite?
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
"The Pageant"
Winter is a time women often feel like their femininity lies dormant. I wanted to embrace what can happen underneath all those layers, the sensuality of the female form.
MICHELLE SMITH
"MILLY Fall 2016 Collection: Perfect for Selena Gomez & Vanessa Hudgens", Hollywood Life, February 12, 2016
These Winter nights against my window-pane
Nature with busy pencil draws designs
Of ferns and blossoms and fine spray of pines,
Oak-leaf and acorn and fantastic vines,
Which she will make when summer comes again--
Quaint arabesques in argent, flat and cold,
Like curious Chinese etchings.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Frost-Work"
There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that's a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don't fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything's quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep--then they appear.
TOVE JANSSON
Moominland Midwinter
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
Winter is a season that often overstays its welcome. It's like a chunk of cheese that got shoved waay into the back of the fridge and wasn't found until it had developed so many life forms that it was officially recognized by the United Nations as a new country.
JERRY NELSON
"Late winter isn't always a dangerous time", Watertown Public Opinion, February 19, 2016
He that passeth a winter's day, escapeth an enemy.
PROSPER JOYLYOT DE CRÉBILLON
attributed, Day's Collacon
Every Fern is tucked and set,
'Neath coverlet,
Downy and soft and warm.
SUSAN COOLIDGE
Time to Go
The most revealing part of our missing winter is how few people I've heard complaining. Some hearty souls genuinely miss the freezing cold, but for most Montrealers, this is our winter of content.
JOSH FREED
"For most Montrealers, this is the winter of our content", Montreal Gazette, February 5, 2016