quotations about winter
When I was younger the winter was my favorite. It was my birthday and it was New Year's and it was snowmen and snowball fights and snow angels.
STEN SPINELLA
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"Storytime with Sten: The melancholy of winter, the pressure of summer", Daily Campus, March 20, 2017
The Winter is coming -- the Winter is near --
Dread Winter's approaching -- the giant is here;
His footsteps are treading o'er everything green;
His breath is a frost fast encrusting the scene.
The trees are now yellow, the leaves are now sere;
Their pride and their beauty have fled in their fear.
The flowers -- where are they? entombed in the shroud
That hides them from view like a beautiful cloud --
The first fall of snow! How it glitters so clear!
What a pity such beauty begetteth a tear!
What a pity that purity such as the snow's
Is the instrument oft of the bitterest woes!
JOHN MURDOCK
"The Winter Is Coming", Joy Hours; Or, Poems, Songs, and Lyrics
When winter twilight falls on my street with the rain, a sense of the horrible sadness of life descends upon me. I think of drunken old women who drown themselves because nobody loves them; I think of Napoleon at St. Helena, and of Byron growing morose and fat in the enervating climate of Italy.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH
Trivia
If the dark days of winter are a struggle where everything seems that little bit harder, it is not just your imagination. Scientists have discovered that the brain actually works differently throughout the year, with some parts far more active in the summer than in the winter months. In fact, brain activity related to attention and concentration peaks during the summer solstice and slumps to a low on the shortest day of the year.
SARAH KNAPTON
"Why winter is a mental struggle: human brain more active in summer, scientists find", The Telegraph, February 8, 2016
Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
November: Fragments in a Nondescript Style
The simplest way of coping with winter is to die in autumn.
J. B. S. HALDANE
Everything Has a History
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
Into Your Meditation: Metaphors On Essential Elements of a Meditation Practice
Who's got the winter blues? For me, the slide down begins after the new year and steadily declines, building rapid speed from there, falling into the pit of the dreaded dead of winter. It's that time of year when getting out of your warm bed is not for the weak, and trudging through every day life seems monotonous, exhausting, boring and, well, just hard. For many people, winter is a very difficult season to muster the strength to feel joy and excitement about much of anything. SAD struggle is real, people. It's real.
CHRISTINE CARTER
"5 Ways to Beat Those Winter Blues!", Huffington Post, February 1, 2016
Winter lives under a pigeon's wing, a dead wing with damp feathers.
ELIZABETH BISHOP
North & South
As winters go, this has been a mild one. Which some may think is good. After all, with hardly any snow to shovel and not enough ice to cause an epidemic of slip and falls, this winter has been easy on our backs.... Still, I'm more convinced this mild winter is a bad thing. And here's why: Year round flip-flops. Instead of packing them away until beach season, people have continued to wear the flimsy footwear all winter. FYI: They're just as unsightly in the winter as they are in the summer. They're just as inappropriate in public, too. And gross feet are gross no matter what time of year it is.
GEORGEA KOVANIS
"The woes of a warm winter", Detroit Free Press, February 8, 2016
Winter is a time to slow. To grab hold of that wheel that spins your days too quickly and give it a firm tug. To let your thoughts catch up with your body. To pin down that idea that's been circling your mind for months. To remember that life isn't an emergency.
KELSI TURNER
"Winter's Wisdom", Bemidji Pioneer, February 7, 2016
What did the tree say after a long winter? What a re-leaf ...
NIC LOYD & LINDA WEIFORD
"Weathercatch: Why it was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad winter", The Spokesman-Review, April 5, 2017
I stood and watched the water and knew something had ended, that winter was gone and with it things undone and pledges unfulfilled.
MITCH MODE
"Outdoor Adventure", Star Journal, March 17, 2017
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
Great Expectations
Do they worst, Winter, but know, but know
That, when the Spring cometh, a blossom shall blow.
JOHN BANISTER TABB
"On the Forthcoming Volume of Sidney Lanier's Poems"
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SAENZ
Last Night I Sang to the Monster
And now spring comes tripping along, and thanks to the brutal winter, we will be better than ever, fly higher thanks to having sunk so low, perhaps even achieve magnificence of some sort.
GARRISON KEILLOR
"If adversity is good for us, we'll be great", Alaska Dispatch News, April 10, 2017
Winter's not gone yet, if the wild-geese fly that way.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
King Lear
Winter is a time for spiraling inward and rejuvenating -- the counterbalance for the active, light-filled, busy times.
JACINTA FERRARI
"Appreciating and embracing the winter season", Penticton Western News, January 28, 2016
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year!
WILLIAM COWPER
The Task