A Cup of Cocoa and 87 Delightful Winter Quotes: The Perfect Recipe for Cozy Evenings

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There is something magical about the winter season that stirs our souls and brings back cherished memories. As the snow falls gently outside our windows, we reflect on life’s simple pleasures and the wisdom we have gathered over the years.

Winter has a way of inspiring beautiful thoughts and words.

Thus, we have gathered some of the best quotes that remind us of the quiet beauty of snowy landscapes, the joy of holiday gatherings, and the cozy comfort of being indoors on a cold day.

Whether you are looking for words to warm your heart or phrases to share with loved ones, you will find something special here. 

1. “Snowflakes are kisses from heaven.” — Unknown

2. “In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.” — Henry Rollins

3. “Livin’ in winter, I am your summer.” — Taylor Swift, “Tis the Damn Season”

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

5. “Snowing is an attempt of God to make the dirty world look clean.” — Mehmet Murat ildan

6. “It’s the kind of cold that fogs up window glass, but I felt it when I passed you.” — Taylor Swift, “ME!”

7. “The cold never bothered me anyway.” — Idina Menzel

8. “There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion.” — Haruki Murakami

9. “The problem with winter sports is that–follow me closely here–they generally take place in winter.” — Dave Barry

10. “The beauty of winter is in its stillness.” — Unknown

11.  “Winter’s firstborn snow dots the soul with magic.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

12. “What miracle of weird transforming is this wild work of frost and light, this glimpse of glory infinite?” — John Greenleaf Whittier

13. “My winter nights are taken up by static.” — Taylor Swift, “Christmas Tree Farm”

14. “If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

15. “Winter is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug.” — Kelsi Turner

16.  “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” — Aristotle

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

18. “Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.” — Vera Nazarian

19. “Nothing burns like the cold.” — George R.R. Martin

20. “It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” — Elizabeth Camden

21. “Winter’s notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy.” — William A. Quayle

22. “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra

23. “The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” — Dean Koontz

24. “Winter’s silence is a gentle reminder to pause and appreciate the moment.” — Unknown

25. “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.” — Edith Sitwell

26. “She stuck her head out and took a deep breath. If she could eat the cold air, she would.” — Sarah Addison Allen

27. “Winter came in days that were gray and still.” — Mildred D. Taylor

28. “I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter’s evening.” — Mark Twain

29. “Everything I want is miles away in a snow-covered little town.” — Taylor Swift, “Christmases When You Were Mine”

30. “Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.” — Yoko Ono

31. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.” — Neil Gaiman

32. “Although it was only six o’clock, the night was already dark.” — Théophile Gautier

33. “He found a place where he was not only content but, despite suffering mightily in winter, was filled with a sense of joy and fulfillment.” — Simon Worrall

34. “What’s the point of complaining? We live in the north. Winter exists.” — Viki Mather

35. “See, Winter comes, to rule the varied year.” — James Thomson

36. “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

37. “It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold.” — Charles Dickens

38. “I do an awful lot of thinking and dreaming about things in the past and the future.” — Andrew Wyeth

39. “One can follow the sun, of course, but I have always thought that it is best to know some winter, too.” — Beatriz Williams

40. “Winter knows to hush, still, listen, so the soul can speak.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

41. “The autumn twilight turned into deep and early night as they walked.” — Neil Gaiman

42. “Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.” — Neil Hilborn

43. “The biggest problem with Winter is that it’s always yanking our chain.” — Jerry Nelson

44. “You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station.” — Marguerite Duras

45. “Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.” — Victor Hugo

46. “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

47. “Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine.” — Mark Helprin

48. “Winter is nature’s sleep.” — H.S. Jacobs

49. “Some just see snow. Some just see cold. I see beauty.” — Unknown

50. “A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn’t mean in winter.” — Patricia Briggs

51. “Summer bodies are made in the winter.” — Krissy Turner

52. “It’s that time of year when getting out of your warm bed is not for the weak.” — Christine Carter

53. “To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” — Marty Rubin

54. “Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.” — Emily Fridlund

55. “I like the cold weather. It means you get work done.” — Noam Chomsky

56. “Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals.” — Anders Swanson

57. “If winter helps you curl up and more, that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura

58. “I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.” — Bob Seger

59. “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets

60. “Grace grows best in winter.” — Samuel Rutherford

61. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino

62. “Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

63. “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

64. “Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow.” — T.S. Eliot

65. “To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” — Marty Rubin

66. “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

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

68. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.” — John Burroughs

69. “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

70. “Every winter has its spring.” — H. Tuttle

71. “October extinguished itself in a rush of howling winds and driving rain and November arrived, cold as frozen iron.” — J.K. Rowling

72. “Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.” — Deirdre Sullivan

73. “Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde

74. “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently?” — Lewis Carroll

75. “What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter’s day?” — Henry David Thoreau

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

77. “Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.” — Ruth Stout

78. “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch

79. “Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness.” — Mary Oliver

80. “I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip.” — Henry Rollins

81. “Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” — Andy Goldsworthy

82. “The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event.” —J.B. Priestly

83.”The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

84. “I’ll never outgrow the excitement of looking out my window and seeing falling snow.” — Unknown

85. “You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” — Robert Frost

86. “I pray this winter be gentle and kind — a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.” — John Geddes

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

Now, have you found a winter quote that tickles your fancy?

Whatever that quote is, each of these winter quotes reminds us that there is warmth to be found even in the coldest months – in our memories, relationships, and hearts. 

Stay cozy, stay warm, and remember – spring is always just around the corner, but there is still plenty of wonder you will find in winter’s embrace.