886 Quotes About Winter

The snow falls soft and unfathomable, drawing the world down to a whitened hush, forcing us (as few things do) to pause long enough to take stock of everything that we miss in our crazed pursuit to gain everything that we can.

It fell like powdered sugar, brittle, yet airy and without direction as it covered the land under an unforgiving tomb.

RETURNING LATE ON THE ROAD FROM PINGQUAN ON WINTER’S DAYThe mountain road is hard to travel, the sun now slanting down,In a misty village, a crow lands on a frosted tree.I'll not arrive before night falls, but that should not concern me,Once I've drunk three warm cups, I'll feel as if at home.

It is snowing. In the English language we do not know anything about the 'it' that is snowing. It might be God. Maybe not. Anyway. It. Is. Snowing.

The snow starts again in the afternoon: fine flakes at first, but becoming gradually heavier. The world is silent. I watch through the window as it continues to fall. I’m supposed to be working on writing this book, but I am staring at the view out of the window, which is like a giant snow globe. Someone has shaken my world and I’m watching as it rearranges itself.

He paused by the window, looking up into a lavender sky, fingers pressed against the icy glass. No stars tonight; the snowflakes came down out of the dark, rushing towards him, endless, uncountable. Silent, too, but not like the stars. Falling snow whispered secrets to itself.“And you are a fanciful idiot,” he said outloud.

Lyra had been born in the cold, and in the stark of winter, she thrived.

I can be counted among the thirty million who voluntarily live in a country with annual plagues. A black death called winter that descends upon us all.

So they went running together, silent, toward the vast wastes of snow where no living thing but they two moved under the stars of night.