Quotes about Winter

Clergyman, Poet, Poet

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

Death - Winter

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Zhuangzi

Actress, Philosopher, Philosopher

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.

Autumn - Dependence - Opinion - Ownership - Permanence - Points - Views - Winter

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Rajneesh

Guru

Remember: life is a rhythm between day and night, summer and winter. It is a continuous rhythm. Never stop anywhere! Be moving! And the bigger the swing, the deeper your experience will be.

Life - Movement - Remembering - Winter

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

We bury our seeds and wait, Winter blocks the road, Flowers are taken prisoner underground, But then green justice tenders a spear

Judging - Taking - Waiting - Winter

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Poet, Poet Laureate of the U.K.

Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, And cling to faith beyond the forms of faith; She reels not at the storm of warring words; She brightens at the clash of "Yes" and "No"; She sees the best that glimmers through the worst; She feels the sun is hid for the night; She spies the summer through the winter bud; She tastes the fruit before the blossom falls; She hears the lark within the songless egg; She finds the fountain where they wailed "Mirage!"

Doubt - Espionage - Fall - Feelings - Storm - Taste - Winter

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

The winter's frost must rend the burr of the nut before the fruit is seen. So adversity tempers the human heart, to discover its real worth.

Adversity - Human - Real - Winter

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A. A. Milne

Author

She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbor: "Winter is dead.

Neighbor - Winter

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Ray Bradbury

Actor, Writer, Writer

...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound.

Architecture - Children - Colors - Gentleness - Pleasure - Sky - Sleeping - Sound - Universe - Whole - Winter

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Sophocles

Actress, Poet, Playwright

You see how when rivers are swollen in winter those trees that yield to the flood retain their branches, but those that offer resistance perish, trunk and all.

Resistance - Winter - Yielding

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Charles Spurgeon

Pastor, Author

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

Dawn - Encouragement - Failing - Winter

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Adolf Hitler

Former Chancellor of Germany

All in all, this whole period of winter 1919-20 was a single struggle to strengthen confidence in the victorious might of the young movement and raise it to that fanaticism of faith which can move mountains.

Fanaticism - Mountain - Movement - Religion - Struggle - Whole - Winter

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Aristotle

Philosopher

For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south.

Possession - Quality - Wellness - Winter

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Swami Vivekananda

Philosopher, Clergyman, Author

There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body.

Care - India - Man - Practice - Sleeping - Water - Whole - Winter

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leader, Civil rights activist

At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.

Ability - Cyclist - Despair - Fatigue - Path - Religion - Seasons - Warmth - Water - Winter

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

It is a hopeless endeavour to unite the contrarieties of spring and winter; it is unjust to claim the privileges of age, and retain the play-things of childhood.

Age - Children - Hopelessness - Playing - Privilege - Unjust - Winter

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

They held hands and knew that only the coffin would lie in the earth; the bubbly laughter and the press of fingers in the palm would stay aboveground forever. At first, as they stood there, their hands were clenched together. They relaxed slowly until during the walk back home their fingers were laced in as gentle a clasp as that of any two young girlfriends trotting up the road on a summer day wondering what happened to butterflies in the winter.

Earth - Gentleness - Girlfriend - Home - Laughing - Lie - Pressure - Relaxing - Together - Winter - Wonder

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Carl Sagan

Astronomer, Cosmologist, Astrophysicist, Astrobiologist

If the greenhouse effect is a blanket in which we wrap ourselves to keep warm, nuclear winter kicks the blanket off.

Effectiveness - Science - Warmth - Winter

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Norman Vincent Peale

Clergyman, Author

Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

Environment - Love - Magic - Positive - Winter - World

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Paulo Coelho

Writer, Novelist, Lyricist

I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

Energy - Feelings - Flow - Life - Return - Waiting - Water - Weakness - Winter

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Samuel Johnson

Writer, Poet, Lexicographer

Lichfield, England. Swallows certainly sleep all winter. A number of them conglobulate together, by flying round and round, and then all in a heap throw themselves under water, and lye in the bed of a river.

Flying - Sleeping - Together - Water - Winter

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