Cold weather is often associated with the holidays, but once Christmas has come and gone, we're left with harsh temperatures and normally lots and lots of snow. Certainly, it's a long countdown to spring, but as you wait, embrace the winter with these 21 quotes about cold weather.
1. “The heart can get really cold if all you’ve known is winter.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
2. “You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.” – Amy Lowell
3. “Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they’re alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way – cleanly, clearly. That’s the essence of ice, the role it plays.”.” – Haruki Murakami
4. “Day after grey day the ice stayed hard; the world remained unfriendly and cold.” – Neil Gaiman
5. “Life is only a flicker of melted ice.” – Dejan Stojanovic
6. “Justice has to be cold. Deal with it; it’s just ice.” – Natalia Vorobyova
7. “Before the snow could melt for good, an ice storm covered the Lowcountry and we learned the deeper treachery of ice. At night, we could hear the disconsolate sounds of trees breaking under the weight of their glistening unnatural burden. Limbs broke with terrifying violence, like the snapping of healthy bones.” – Pat Conroy
8. “The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.” – Dr. Seuss
9. “In the cold dark days of winter, dream about the flowers to get warmed up!” – Mehmet Murat Ildan
10. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.” – Aristotle
11. “The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” – Terri Guillemets
12. “Winter is an etching, spring a watercolor, summer a painting, and autumn a mosaic of them all.” – Stanley Horowitz
13. “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
14. “Advice is like the snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
15. “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
16. “I like these cold, gray winter days. Days like these let you savor a bad mood.” – Bill Watterson
17. “Winter is a season that sparkles with magic and transforms our ordinary world into a glittering kingdom.” – Abi Elphinstone
18. “Winter brings colder temperatures and snow to many regions. Snow makes everything very quiet and alters the landscape.’” – Beth Eaglescliffe
19. “I have been wandering in the cold, wintry winds of this life, enduring with sorrow its frosts, not knowing where to turn, or whether to direct my footsteps to find shelter.” – J.M.Usher
20. “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
21. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck