WINTER QUOTES
quotations about winter
The biggest problem with Winter is that it's always yanking our chain. "Welp, I'm out of here," says Winter one late February day. "I won't see you again until after autumn." But Winter is a dirty, rotten liar. After leading us to believe that it's finally gone for good, it roars back into our lives on a hurricane of icy whiteness. Winter is the sleazy pal who you let crash on your couch for "just one night." Now he won't leave despite such broad hints as you slapping a For Sale sign on the couch and dragging it out to the curb.
JERRY NELSON
"Late winter isn't always a dangerous time", Watertown Public Opinion, February 19, 2016
Winter then in its early and clear stages, was a purifying engine that ran unhindered over city and country, alerting the stars to sparkle violently and shower their silver light into the arms of bare upreaching trees. It was a mad and beautiful thing that scoured raw the souls of animals and man.
MARK HELPRIN
Winter's Tale
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
JOHN STEINBECK
Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Old Man Winter is here for a day, but he has blown into the greater arc of my life, too.
MARK DI IONNO
"Old Man Winter is coming: a snow day lament", NJ, March 14, 2017
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
Meditations Divine and Moral
I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone,
Going home, where the New York city winters aren't bleedin' me.
PAUL SIMON
"The Boxer"
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
From travelling the vast white landscapes of Skyrim, to the long mournful melodies of Tchaikovsky's 1st symphony, it is obvious that winter has inspired creativity from within. Even without ever experiencing it for myself, everything from lines in Game of Thrones like "Winter is coming" to quests to end the eternal winter in Frozen have made it clear that winter is a time of difficulty, hibernation, and sorrow. It might be something we take for granted but for aeons we have known that winter is a time of survival, a relentless force of nature that pushes us to keep ourselves alive and reminds our species of its fragility. Something about the cold instills melancholiness, fear, and a sense of insignificance which I understood even without ever living in a place where it can get unbearably cold. My fascination stems from an attempt to put a face to the artistic persona of winter that we have all encountered in varying forms.
PAVAN KALIDINDI
"Winter: an outsider's experience", Swarthmore Phoenix, February 11, 2016
If this were a rooftop
covered with snow,
these words
would be
bird tracks
instead
of a poem.
WILLIAM MICHAELIAN
"Winter View", Winter Poems
Winter is brutal, dark, cold, we fall into the slough of despond, and now this year, as a bonus, a flu virus is going around that causes vomiting, low self-esteem and what your grandpa called "the trots." In fact, I have a case of it right now, and I apologize if I must suddenly jump up and run to what your grandpa may have called "the biffy."
GARRISON KEILLOR
"If adversity is good for us, we'll be great", Alaska Dispatch News, April 10, 2017
Winter is not a season in the North Middlewest; it is an industry.
SINCLAIR LEWIS
Main Street
Winter likes to pretend it's gone, tricking the daffodils into poking their little heads out of the soil, then wam! Winter comes back again like a giant, felt-wrapped hammer, whapping anything green back into submission. It's nature's version of whack-a-mole.
MIKE TODD
"Just Humor Me: The Winter is our discontent", The Montgomery Review, April 4, 2017
Nothing burns like the cold.
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
A Game of Thrones
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 DA QUINCEY
Confessions of an English Opium Eater
Winter is a glorious spectacle of glittering fractals complete with a soundscape and atmosphere entirely its own.
ANDERS SWANSON
"Ice cycles: the northerly world cities leading the winter bicycle revolution", The Guardian, February 12, 2016
Every winter has its spring.
H. TUTTLE
attributed, Day's Collacon
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
"Winter is making us SAD", Spartan Newsroom, March 21, 2017
The gaunt limbs, and stark, rigid, death-like whiteness of winter.
BRET HARTE
"Views from a German Spion"
Winter stakes out a special physiological and psychological space in those supposedly hardy people who think they are adapted to it. Some of the hype is fair -- a really cold winter day can, after all, kill you fairly quickly. But some of us like to overemphasise our own bravery.
ANDERS SWANSON
"Ice cycles: the northerly world cities leading the winter bicycle revolution", The Guardian, February 12, 2016
The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
DEAN KOONTZ
Brother Odd