Pain can make a whole winter bright, like fever, force us to live deep and hard. ~ May Sarton

Winter has an uncanny way of producing in us a great appreciation for the tender new beginnings of spring…both in nature and in our hearts. ~ Janet L. Weaver

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~ English Proverb

Oh winter, king of fire side enjoyments, home born happiness. ~ William Cowper

It’s only in winter that the pine and cypress are known to be evergreens. ~ Confucius

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Charlotte Brontë

We must go out and re ally ourselves to Nature every day. We must take root, send out some little fiber at least, even every winter day. ~ Henry David Thoreau

Winter solitude--/In a world of one color/The sound of wind. ~ Matsuo Basho

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago. ~ Victor Hugo

The winter does not go without looking backward. ~ Finnish Proverb

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year. ~ Kathleen Norris

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape—the loneliness of it—the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it—the whole story doesn’t show. ~ Andrew Wyeth

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit. ~ Anton Chekhov

Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. ~ Pietro Aretino

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