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90 Magical Winter Quotes Revealing The Beauty Of The Season

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While winter might not be everyone’s favorite season, there’s no denying its beauty. Especially when the beauty is accentuated by the harsh contrast of unbearable cold and having to penguin-walk to wherever you have to go through snow dunes and the magical beauty of things covered by pure whiteness; however, we’re not some Poet’s Society, and our words definitely lack that certain something to reveal the season’s intricacies, so we’d rather leave this job for these beautiful winter quotes that we’ve gathered on this list.

So, these quotes about winter will absolutely tell you more about the charms of this season and in a way more sophisticated manner than we could do. And, of course, visual beauty is not everything that this season has - there’s also the emotional aspect, so you should absolutely expect to find some inspirational winter quotes mixed into the roster, too. However, if you’re not that big on the motivational/inspirational stuff and would rather read something that evokes the images of a crackling fireplace and a mug of cocoa, there are also some cute short winter quotes here that might just do the trick.

Right-o, our selection of cozy winter quotes is just a snowflake’s fall below - you should definitely check them out. Since the submissions are in no particular order as of now, you get to decide which of these beautiful quotes will lead the parade, finding their spot on the top of this list, by giving them your vote. And once all that is done, share this article with your friends!

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#1

Quote about winter “I love winter. The bugs are dead, and the people are indoors.” ― Dennis Ruane

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Headless Roach 1 year ago

Not all bugs, dear 🤎

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#2

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

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Kingsloth262 1 year ago

Well, personally, I don’t like the warmth of summer so 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

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#3

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer." - Albert Camus

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Remember, Camus rhymes with Shamoo.

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#4

"People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy." - Anton Chekhov

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Isa's left eye 1 year ago

I may be happy but I'm still sweating my skin off

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#5

Quote about winter “Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” — Paul Theroux

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#6

"The fire is winter's fruit." - Arabian Proverb

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Just don’t pick it.

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#7

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

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago (edited)

Amen.

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#8

"One kind word can warm three winter months." — Japanese Proverb

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#9

Quote about winter "To keep a warm heart in winter is the real victory.” — Marty Rubin

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#10

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

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

It works!

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#11

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono

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#12

"There is an instinctive withdrawal for the sake of preservation, a closure that assumes the order of completion. Winter is a season unto itself.” — Haruki Murakami

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#13

Quote about winter "Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless. " — Terri Guillemets

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#14

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

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#15

"Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day." - Elizabeth Bowen

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

This quote transports me to another world where sentences don’t make sense.

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#16

"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

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#17

Quote about winter “Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde

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#18

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien

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#19

“My old grandmother always used to say, summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever.” ― George R.R. Martin

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

“Summer snows are as rare as hens teeth.” - K.L.Tokyo

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#20

“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

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#21

Quote about winter “Winter is not a season, it's an occupation.” ― Sinclair Lewis

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Yeah! And don’t forget it.

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#22

"One minute it was Ohio winter, with doors closed, windows locked, the panes blind with frost, icicles fringing every roof, children skiing on slopes, housewives lumbering like great black bears in their furs along the icy streets." — Ray Bradbury

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

“And the next minute the solar flare vaporized all life on that side of the planet.” (Ray Bradbury wrote science fiction.)

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#23

"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." – Gary Zukhav

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#24

“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

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#25

Quote about winter "Winter is nature's sleep." — H.S. Jacobs

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#26

"Winter blues are cured every time with a potato gratin paired with a roast chicken." — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

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#27

"In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move." — Henry Rollins

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

“In summer I burst into flames. And in autumn I rise like a Phoenix from my dusty ashes.”

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#28

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

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#29

Quote about winter “When it snows, you have two choices: shovel or make snow angels.”

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mark glass 1 year ago

Or stay indoors until it's no longer an obstacle or temptation.

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#30

"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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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

That Lewis Carroll was really out there.

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#31

"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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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Good one.

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#32

"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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#33

Quote about winter "Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart." - Victor Hugo

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I feel like Mr. Hugo was saying his hair had turned white.

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#34

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind, thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude." - William Shakespeare

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mark glass 1 year ago

Shakespeare never spent a winter in The Dakotas.

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#35

"Winter forms our character and brings out our best." – Tom Allen

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#36

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy." – William Blake

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#37

Quote about winter “Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person.” — Sylvia Plath

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Why now? What happened? Sylvia, don’t leave us hanging!

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#38

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

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Jilltdcatlady 1 year ago

For those of us with a hot constitution, cold weather is the best to work outdoors.

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#39

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

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#40

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

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#41

Quote about winter “Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.” ― Virginia Woolf

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#42

“The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz

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#43

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

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

You tell’em Carl.

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#44

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

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#45

Quote about winter "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

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I think we are getting a lot of repeats in here.

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#46

"When I was young, I loved summer and hated winter. When I got older I loved winter and hated summer. Now that I'm even older, and wiser, I hate both summer and winter." — Jarod Kintz

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I am wise beyond my years… I hate everything.

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#47

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

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#48

"To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring. " — W.J. Vogel

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#49

Quote about winter "Nothing burns like the cold." - George R.R. Martin

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#50

"The color of springtime is flowers; the color of winter is in our imagination." - Terri Guillemets

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#51

“A wet autumn morning, a garbage truck clattering down the street. The first snowfall of the season, blossom-sized flakes falling languidly and melting on the ground, a premature snowfall delicate as lace, rapidly melting.” — Joyce Carol Oates

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#52

“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.” — Anne Bradstreet

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#53

Quote about winter “It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it. ” — John Burroughs

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#54

“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

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#55

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

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#56

"Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away. When you don’t have anything warm at hand, even a memory can be a small substitute." — Vera Nazarian

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#57

Quote about winter "Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face." — Victor Hugo

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#58

"Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago." — William A. Quayle

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#59

"The problem with winter sports is that--follow me closely here--they generally take place in winter." — Dave Barry

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Dave Berry is the goat.

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#60

"In the winter the sun typically comes out less then in the summer months and it can have a major impact on our moods and motivation." — Emily Durbin

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Duh.

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#61

"'Welcome to winter,' one said. 'When fifty percent of drivers should have their licenses temporarily suspended.'" — Kelley Armstrong

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#62

Quote about winter "That’s what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.” — Ali Smith

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#63

"It's so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can't see beyond yourself.” — Patricia A. McKillip

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

“ It's so hard to think in winter”. This is why there are so many goofy quotes about winter. 🙃

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#64

"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

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#65

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

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#66

Quote about winter "But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.” — Mary Balogh

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#67

“For winter was coming. The days were shorter, and frost crawled up the window panes at night. Soon the snow would come. Then the log house would be almost buried in snowdrifts, and the lake and the stream would freeze.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

And Pa would do winter Pa stuff.

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#68

“Maybe eventually winter will finish our job for us and end the world in ice instead of blood.” ― Isaac Marion

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Pretty dark, Isaac. Might be time to see that therapist.

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#69

"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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#70

Quote about winter "They who sing through the summer must dance in the winter."

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#71

"'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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#72

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn." - Hal Borland

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#73

"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Dodo 1 year ago

What an old and outdated theory... 🙄

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#74

Quote about winter "Winter is a season of recovery and preparation." – Paul Theroux

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#75

“I love you because no two snowflakes are alike, and it is possible, if you stand tippy-toe, to walk between the raindrops.” — Nikki Giovanni

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I don’t think that would work. I truly believe you would still get wet.

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#76

“The first fall of snow is not only an event but it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up to find yourself in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment, where is it to be found?” — J. B. Priestly

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#77

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

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#78

Quote about winter “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” ― Sara Raasch

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#79

“No animal, according to the rules of animal etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.” ― Kenneth Grahame

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

Including us people animals.

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#80

"Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own." — Anders Swanson

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#81

"Winter is the time of sacred balance and rejuvenation of life in preparation for the coming spring. It represents abundance, teaching and gratitude." — Noelle Vignola

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#82

Quote about winter "Winter collapsed on us that year. It knelt, exhausted, and stayed.” — Emily Fridlund

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#83

"You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.” — Marguerite Duras

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#84

"In winter we behold the charms of solemn majesty and naked grandeur." — James Ellis

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#85

"Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen." — Willa Cather

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I think 80 is a good number for winter quotes.

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#86

Quote about winter "Write about winter in the summer." — Annie Dillard

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#87

“Winter is the time for stories, staying fast by the glow of fire. And outside, in the darkness, the stars are brighter than you can possibly imagine.” – Isabel Greenberg

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#88

“Surely everyone is aware of the divine pleasures which attend a wintry fireside; candles at four o’clock, warm hearthrugs, tea, a fair tea-maker, shutters closed, curtains flowing in ample draperies to the floor, whilst the wind and rain are raging audibly without.” ― Thomas De Quincey

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#89

“Every mile is two in winter.”

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#90

Quote about winter “Flowers have their fragrance; winter has its handful of memories.” ― Lin Huiyin

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Bah humbug! I hate winter! Thank God for Southern California. Even here I'm a little bummed it's colder and darker. But the sun is still warm when you stand in it. I'll take that any day!

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I feel like I can write a really profound winter quote after reading all of these. “Spring is for babies. Summer burst across the firmament like an explosion of pigeons. Autumn crept up on us like a silent hurricane. And winter, glorious winter, how your dappled dew reminds the few of a musty pew in the churches of our souls.”

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Tyranamar Seuss 1 year ago

Bah humbug! I hate winter! Thank God for Southern California. Even here I'm a little bummed it's colder and darker. But the sun is still warm when you stand in it. I'll take that any day!

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kitten levels tokyo 1 year ago

I feel like I can write a really profound winter quote after reading all of these. “Spring is for babies. Summer burst across the firmament like an explosion of pigeons. Autumn crept up on us like a silent hurricane. And winter, glorious winter, how your dappled dew reminds the few of a musty pew in the churches of our souls.”

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