10 quotes about winter that’ll warm you deep inside

Winter is a season that celebrates change, vulnerability and hope. While some of you might prefer warmer temperatures, you can’t deny there is just something about the first snow flakes, the aroma of hot coffee and the comfort of woolies that just gets you.

So, as compiled from Hindustan Times, we bring you 10 soulful quotes about winter by famous writes who truly captured its essence in their words. After all, just because the mercury is dipping low doesn’t mean your Monday-morning motivation also has to.

1. “The pine stays greener in winter…wisdom in hardship.”

- Norman Douglas

2. “The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.”

- Gary Zukav

3. “Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.”

- Victor Hugo

4. “When all the world appears to be in a tumult, and nature itself is feeling the assault of climate change, the seasons retain their essential rhythm. Yes, fall gives us a premonition of winter, but then, winter will be forced to relent, once again, to the new beginnings of soft greens, longer light and the sweet air of spring.”

- Madeleine M Kunin

5. “In the depth of winter I learnt that there was an in me an invincible summer.”

- Albert Camus

6. “He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.”

- John Burroughs

7. “Winter is the season for recovery and preparation.”

- Paul Theroux

8. “We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet, our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.”

- Zhuangzi

9. “In seed time, learn. In harvest, teach. And in winter, enjoy.”

- William Blake

10. “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”

- Andrew Wyeth

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