42 Cute Winter Quotes Perfect for Cozy Season

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Cold weather, nights spent by the fire and snow days are only a few things to look forward to as winter swiftly approaches. If you happen to be someone who can’t get enough of the cozy season, then we know you’ll appreciate our list of inspirational, cute and funny winter quotes that celebrate everything about those golden months from December to February.

For anyone who is excited to jump right into fun winter activities (including skiing, ice skating and your occasional winter date), the combination of phrases, musings and sayings that capture the essence of the season, can easily double as a cool Instagram caption to go with each photo you snap along the way. And even if you happen to be someone who is always cold and dreads any time of year when the temperature falls below 60-degrees, think of these quotes as an opportunity to embrace the beauty of winter – even if it is from the comfort of your own bed.

John Rzeznik

I need a long, cold winter.

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Pietro Aretino

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

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George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

Nothing burns like the cold. But only for a while. Then it gets inside you and starts to fill you up, and after a while you don't have the strength to fight it.

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Bill Veeck

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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Roman Payne

It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow.

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Robert Frost

You can't get too much winter in the winter.

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William Blake

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

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Tim Allen

Winter forms our character and brings out our best.

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Terri Guillemets

Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.

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Paul Theroux

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

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Neil Hilborn

Imagine if fire extinguishers were full of snow. Imagine the fun we could have.

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James Ellis

In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur.

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Henry Rollins

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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John Geddes

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be unnecessary freezing of water.

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Ali Smith

That's what winter is: An exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

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Anamika Mishra

Winter is not a season, it's a celebration.

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H. Tuttle

Every winter has its spring.

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Anne Bradstreet

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.

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Gary Zukhav

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.

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Nancy Hatch Woodward

Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.

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Anton Chekhov

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

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Albert Camus

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

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Aristotle

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

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Japanese Proverb

One kind word can warm three winter months.

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Hal Borland

No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.

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Lewis Carroll

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."

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Unknown

When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.

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Ben Aaronovitch, "Broken Homes"

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

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Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"

If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

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Edith Sitwell, "Taken Care Of"

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.

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Yoko Ono

Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.

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John Boswell

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

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John Burroughs

He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.

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Carol Rifka Brunt, "Tell the Wolves I'm Home"

There’s just something beautiful about walking on snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.

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Sylvia Plath, "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath"

Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.

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George R.R. Martin, "A Feast for Crows"

My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.

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John Geddes, "A Familiar Rain"

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory...

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Victor Hugo

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.

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John Steinbeck, "Travels With Charley: In Search of America"

What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.

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Candace Bushnell

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.

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Novala Takemoto, "Missin'"

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

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Terri Guillemets

The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.

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