886 Quotes About Winter

Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain,Esté est plaisant et gentil,En tesmoing de May et d'AvrilQui l'acompaignent soir et main.Esté revest champs, bois et fleurs,De sa livrée de verdureEt de maintes autres couleurs,Par l'ordonnance de Nature.Mais vous, Yver, trop estes plainDe nege, vent pluye et grezil;On vous deust banie en essil.Sans point flater, je parle plain,Yver, vous n'estes qu'un villain ! 

Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart. The sun departs the sky in winding sheets of gaudy cloud; anguish enters the city, a sense of the bitterest regret, a nostalgia for things we never knew, anguish of the turn of the year, the time of impotent yearning, the inconsolable season.

Grief is always sudden as winter, no matter how long the autumn.

Berlin's getting dark before it's getting late.

The way ran zigzag through a forest of pine which the bitter wind, still that morning, had turned to ice; every bough was adorned with lines of stalactite which shivered and glittered in the morning sun; every needle had a brilliant, vitreous case and when she flicked her whip at a wayside shrub she brought down a tinkling shower of ice-leaves, each the veined impression of its crisp, green counterpart.

I remember a time in a class on a cold winter morning a Japanese girl came with a surgical mask & I thought “wow people would go to extremes NOT to get sick in Japan” afterwards on a break I approached her & asked in a cynical manner: why the mask? Are you afraid of catching a cold? & then she said “in Japan you use it when YOU are under the weather & you don’t want other people to get sick, it is the polite thing to do” wow! that's a lesson I will never forget

But winter was necessary. Why else would the world have it? The trees seemed to welcome the season, from the way they changed colors before they dropped their leaves and went to sleep. Winter was a part of a cycle, like day and night, life and death.

Winter gold: the sparrow's footprints in the snow.

Winter brings cold dry harsh weather and trees are without leaves.