65 snow quotes guaranteed to warm your heart this winter

Whether winter is your favorite time of year or the season of freezin' leaves you feeling a tad bit frosty, we've got a collection of snow quotes that, dare we say, covers a lot of ground.

From short snow quotes from luminaries like Robert Frost, who penned the classic poem "Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening," to William Shakespeare, who famously wrote, "“Now is the winter of our discontent," use one or all of these winter-inspired sayings for Instagram, texts, or holiday cards.

After all, winter comes but once a year, and you can either spend it pining for summer, which, OK, understandable, or embrace it by celebrating the arrival of Old Man Winter and a whole lot of snowfall.

In fact, why not give a new winter activity a try like skiing, skating or sledding? When you do, you can post all about it using one of these cute quotes. Or, if snuggling up and watching movies is more your speed, we've got messages for those who prefer the Great Indoors to building a snowman.

However you decide to spend the season, the one thing you don't have to worry about is coming up with the right words to describe it, because we've got everything you need right here. And that means you'll have plenty of extra time for shoveling (apologies in advance).

Best snow quotes

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

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

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

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “When snow falls, nature listens.” — Antoinette Van Kleeff

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

  • “Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde

  • “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen

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

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “The only other sound’s the sweep, of easy wind and downy flake.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”

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

  • “There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” — Leo Sayer

  • “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” — Vesta Kelly

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • "Snow is what it does. It falls and it stays and it goes." — Frederick Seidel

  • "The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow." — Robert Walser

  • “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes

Short snow quotes

  • "Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand." — Henry David Thoreau

  • “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  • “Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.” ― Thomas Frey

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • "No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn." — Hal Borland

  • "There are only two seasons ― winter and baseball." ― Bill Veeck

  • “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.” — Alice Childress

  • “I’ll own it’s cold for such a fall of snow.” — Robert Frost, “Snow”

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

  • “The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” — Roger Ebert

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!" — Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

  • “Now is the winter of our discontent.” — William Shakespeare, “Richard III”

  • “Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

  • “The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” — Lama Willa Miller

  • “When snow falls, nature listens.” — Antoinette Van Kleef

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

  • “Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams.” — Anthony T. Hincks

  • “Like snowflakes your words fall silent. But my heart still hears your voice.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby

  • “Always winter but never Christmas.” — C.S. Lewis, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”

  • “Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “Be like snow — cold but beautiful.” — Lana Del Rey

  • “Do you want to build a snowman?” — Anna, “Frozen”

  • “What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen.” — William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 97”

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

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes

Quotes for the first snow

  • “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” ― Carl Reiner

  • “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, "The Sugar Queen"

  • “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind.” — William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”

  • “Snow had fallen / Snow on snow on snow / In the bleak midwinter.” — Christina Georgina Rossetti

  • “Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”

  • “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” — J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"

  • “We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” — Walter Scott

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “And finally Winter, with its bitin, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.” — Roy Bean

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

  • “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.” — L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”

  • “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne

  • “The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.” — William Goldman, “The Princess Bride”

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “One must have a mind of winter, to regard the frost and the boughs, of the pine-trees crusted with snow.” — Wallace Stevens, “Harmonium”

  • “Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.” — William Hamilton Gibson

  • “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?” — Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes

Snow quotes from songs

  • “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” — Dean Martin, “Let it Snow”

  • “Dashing through the snow / In a one-horse open sleigh/ O’er the fields we go / Laughing all the way.” — James Pierpont, "Jingle Bells"

  • “The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh, through the white and drifted snow!” — Lydia Maria Child, "Over the River and Through the Woods"

  • “Soft white snowflakes, gently falling / Who has sent thee from the sky?” — Harvey W. Loomis, “A Song for Christmas Eve”

  • “I don’t know if there’ll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.” — Burl Ives, “Holly Jolly Christmas”

  • “Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,” — Julie Andrews, “My Favorite Things”

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes
  • “Frosty the snowman, a fairytale they say / He was made of snow, but the children know he came to life one day.” — Jimmy Durante, “Frosty the Snowman”

  • “There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel / One in the park as well / It’s the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow.” — Perry Como, “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas”

  • “Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, ‘Yoo hoo!’” — Arthur Fiedler, “Sleigh Ride”

  • “I won’t ask for much this Christmas / I won’t even wish for snow / I’m just gonna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe.” — Mariah Carey, “All I Want for Christmas is You”

  • “Where treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow.” — Bing Crosby, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”

Snow Quotes
Snow Quotes

This article was originally published on TODAY.com

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