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Quotes About Winter

In the deep shivering winter, I can feel the joy of a dancing summer in my heart.
~ Debasish Mridha
In the summer, we create memories of hot adventures so that those memories can warm-up the deep frozen winter.
~ Debasish Mridha
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.
~ Jean Paul
I stood alone in the winter twilight, and I took a deep breath of clear cold air, and I felt beautifully, wonderfully, electrically free
~ Jean Webster
It was the kind of delicious chilliness, though, that was good for thinking about how winter wasn't far away, and snow, and Christmas.
~ Jeanne Birdsall
During the winter, me and Rowley stored up some snowballs in my freezer so we could have a snowball fight when the weather got warm.
~ Jeff Kinney
I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.
~ Elie Wiesel
Its genesis: inside the kingdom of night, I witnessed a strange trial. Three rabbis-all erudite and pious men-decided one winter evening to indict God for allowing his children to be massacred, I remember: I was there, and I felt like crying. But there nobody cried.
~ Elie Wiesel
Outside, it snowed; fat, lazy flakes, drifting with soft intention toward the place they were meant to land.
~ Elizabeth Berg
winter?" She traced a circle on his breastbone, her touch
~ Elizabeth Hoyt
Beyond Stone Ring Keep's high walls, the wind wailed of coming winter. Ariane didn't hear the mournful cry. She heard nothing but echoes
~ Elizabeth Lowell
Autumn in the Highlands would be brief—a glorious riot of color blazing red across the moors and gleaming every shade of gold in the forests of sheltered glens. Those achingly beautiful images would be painted again and again across the hills and in the shivering waters of the mountain tarns until the harsh winds of winter sent the last quaking leaf to its death on the frozen ground.
~ Elizabeth Stuart
She belongs to the winter that is past, to the darkness that is over, and has no part or lot in the life I shall lead for the next six months. Oh, I could dance and sing for joy that the spring is here! What a resurrection of beauty there is in my garden, and of brightest hope in my heart.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
and there were days last winter when I danced for sheer joy out in my frost-bound garden, in spite of my years and children. But I did it behind a bush, having a due regard for the decencies.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
those future marigolds, shadowy as they are, and whose seeds are still sleeping at the seedman´s, have shone through my winter days like golden lamps.
~ Elizabeth von Arnim
MIDWINTER IS THE DREARIEST of the year. Days are short, nights are long, and both are cold and wet with no immediate prospect of relief. Winter's Tail is what the old wives call it, dragging filth at winter's ass.
~ Ellen Kushner
and several gold sovereigns and threw them into the snow at his feet.
~ Alfred Lansing
The great brandMade lightnings in the splendor of the moon,And flashing round and round, and whirled in an arch,Shot like a streamer of the northern morn,Seen where the moving isles of winter shockBy night, with noises of the northern sea,So flashed and fell the brand Excalibur.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
So all day long the noise of battle roll'dAmong the mountains by the winter sea.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
When after the Winter alarmin', The Spring steps in so charmin', So fresh and arch In the middle of March, Wid her hand St. Patrick's arm on...
~ Alfred Percival Graves
Deep silence fell about the little camp, planted there so audaciously in the jaws of the wilderness. The lake gleamed like a sheet of black glass beneath the stars. The cold air pricked. In the draughts of night that poured their silent tide from the depths of the forest, with messages from distant ridges and from lakes just beginning to freeze, there lay already the faint, bleak odors of coming winter. ("The Wendigo")
~ Algernon Blackwood
For winter's rains and ruins are over, And all the season of snows and sins; The days dividing lover and lover, The light that loses, the night that wins; And time remembered is grief forgotten, And frosts are slain and flowers begotten, And in green underwood and cover Blossom by blossom the spring begins.
~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
Be very cautious of cold in the beginning of winter and welcome it at the close of the season because cold season effects your bodies exactly as it effects the trees; in the early season its severity makes them shrivel and shed their leaves and at the end it helps them to revive.
~ Ali bin Abu-Talib