Finding HopeQuotes For Winter
Posted on November 20, 2022
With the early dusk, the chilly air, and the urge to curl up in front of a fire or under a blanket, I think it’s safe to say that we’re entering winter, at least in this part of the world. With the government we have right now, there are a lot of things to worry about going into the next few months but there’s nothing I can do on my silly little blog to change those, other than let you know that I’m going through it with you. It’s a scary time. But here are some quotes that hopefully inspire a little joy about this season…
“The last faded autumn leaflet hangs from a frozen branch, just a short fall from the tree to winter.” – Terri Guillemets
“In winter, forgive the fallen leaves of your past.” – Terri Guillemets
“Winter winds sweep away the dead leaves of our lives.” – Terri Guillemets
“In Winter, Mother Nature dims the lights, sleeps late, hides from the world, and regenerates. Winter is the hangover of seasons.” – Terri Guillemets
“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.” – Paul Theroux
“The earth tucked herself in for the year with winter’s frosty white blanket of snow.” – Terri Guillemets
“Winter is a white-gray paradise blunted of details – the simple season.” – Terri Guillemets
“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
“It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” – John Burroughs
“Winter stars blaze in silent joy.” – Terri Guillemets
“All sounds are sharper in winter; the air transmits better.” – John Burroughs
“This brilliant silence of winter is most touching, might I not say musical?” – Henry James Slack
“One kind word can warm three winter months.” – Japanese Proverb
“Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day.” – Virginia Woolf
“Winter is a long, open time. The nights are as dark as the end of the world.” – Craig Childs
“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” – Tim Allen
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” – Albert Camus
“Wisdom comes with winters.” – Oscar Wilde
“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.” – Hal Borland
“The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size.” – Gertrude Smith Wister
“If winter wrote an autobiography, it would be mostly about the spring.” – Terri Guillemets
“Winter is a lean, scrappy fighter. Spring blossoms from the sweat of Winter’s brow.” – Terri Guillemets
“Flowers have their fragrance, winter has its handful of memories.” – Lin Huiyin
I love winter so I have been looking forward to putting up this post. I hope you’ve enjoyed it, if only as a pleasant momentary distraction from the world. Let me know your favourite? Or do you have a favourite that I haven’t shared?
This series of posts is now over; we now have quotes for all four seasons, which is very satisfying. It’s been a fun challenge. And so, in conclusion, I leave you with this quote, which sums up this series pretty well…
“We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make them other than they are. They are gifts from the universe that we cannot refuse. But we can choose what we will contribute to life when each arrives.” – Garry Zukhav
Quotes For Autumn
Posted on September 17, 2022
We have finally reached autumn, my favourite season. I love the light, the colours, the crunchy leaves, the crispness of the air… I love all of it. So I’m very happy that it’s finally upon us. And so, to celebrate, here are some quotes about this gorgeous time of year…
“There are two times of year: autumn and waiting for autumn.” – Unknown
“Autumn is the antidote to stifling summer.” – Terri Guillemets
“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets
“Essentially, autumn is the quiet completion of spring and summer. Spring was all eagerness and beginnings, summer was growth and flowering. Autumn is the achievement summarized, the harvested grain, the ripened apple, the grape in the wine press. Autumn is the bright leaf in the woodland, the opened husk on the bittersweet berry, the froth of asters at the roadside.” – Hal Borland
“A glorious crown the year puts on…” – Phebe A. Holder
“… The world reveals itself in its true dimensions in the autumn…” – Hal Borland
“Somewhere along the way, I realized that the new year doesn’t begin for me in January. The new and fresh has always come for me in the fall. Ironically, as leaves are falling like rain, crunching beneath my feet with finality, I am vibrating with the excitement of birth and new beginnings… My year begins in autumn.” – Betsy Cañas Garmon
“I am standing in a new-minted world, summer folded away like a rose pressed in a book.” – Gladys Taber
“I step outside and the chilly air tightens the skin on my bare arms. Summer has ended all too quickly, and some of the leaves on the trees have already started to burn with the colors of fall. Fall colors… so bright and intense and beautiful. It’s like nature is trying to fill you up with color, to saturate you so you can stockpile it before winter turns everything muted and dreary.” – Siobhan Vivian
“Autumn repays the earth the leaves which summer lent it.” – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“‘I’m dreading fall. It is a terrifying season,’ he says… ‘Everything shrivelling up and dying.’ I don’t know how to answer. Fall has always been my favorite season. The time when everything bursts with its last beauty, as if nature had been saving up all year for the grand finale. I’ve never thought to be frightened of it.” – Lauren DeStefano
“We do not migrate as the birds do, but I notice there is a change in the rhythm of our life when the season ebbs… There is a quickening in the blood, a restlessness. Suddenly we are full of projects, which may be our own manner of migrating.” – Gladys Taber
“Autumn is the season of change.” – Taoist Proverb
“… Autumn winds shaking color from the trees…” – Terri Guillemets
“Light understands the colors of Autumn, and she loves him for it.” – Terri Guillemets
“I am struck by the simplicity of light in the atmosphere in the autumn, as if the earth absorbed none, and out of this profusion of dazzling light came the autumnal tints.” – Henry David Thoreau
“Autumn is spring turned antique.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn writes her own poetry,
we are merely observers.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn carries more gold in its pockets than all the other seasons.” – Jim Bishop
“Autumn breathes in golden sunshine and breathes out a frosty chill.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn mornings: sunshine and crisp air, birdsong and calmness, year’s end and day’s beginnings.” – Terri Guillemets
“We want it to stay, but autumn always leaves. Beautifully.” – Terri Guillemets
“Autumn leaves blaze their swan song of colors and wait for winter to wipe the slate clean.” – Terri Guillemets
As I said, I’ve always loved autumn. The colours are so beautiful and there’s something about the light that seems different, feels different. And I love the bite in the air in the mornings; I can’t help thinking about how that’s what the expression ‘fresh start’ actually feels like. I feel more alive when the mornings feel like that. I’m also so used to a new academic year beginning in the autumn that I associate the time of year with new beginnings, even though I’m now no longer in education, and I can’t help feeling energised by that. That feeling might change now that I’m done with university (for the foreseeable future at least) but for now, I’ll try and enjoy that feeling.
Do you guys have any particular quotes about autumn or that you associate with autumn? Or maybe poems or songs? I have my playlist for each year but, at some point, I might make a playlist of songs that I associate with each season. That might be fun.
Quotes For Summer
Posted on June 5, 2022
Summer is upon us, although it seems hesitant to commit this year. At least where I am. But we’ve had some gorgeous sun, some beautiful blue skies, and a spectacular summer storm. So I think we’re getting there. And thus I thought I’d share some quotes about summer…
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explode, and every sunset is different.” – John Steinbeck
“Summertime is always the best of what might be.” – Charles Bowden
“Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“In summer, the song sings itself.” – William Carlos Williams
“One benefit of summer was that each day we had more light to read by.” – Jeanette Walls
“Summers had a logic all their own and they always brought something out in me. Summer was supposed to be about freedom and youth and no school and possibilities and adventure and exploration. Summer was a book of hope. That’s why I loved and hated summers. Because they made me want to believe.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Working is bad enough in the winter, but in the summer it can become completely intolerable. Stuck in airless offices, every fiber of our being seems to cry out for freedom. We’re reminded of being stuck in double maths while the birds sing outside.” – Tom Hodgkinson
“In the summer, the days were long, stretching into each other. Out of school, everything was on pause and yet happening at the same time, this collection of weeks when anything was possible.” – Sarah Dessen
“Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.” – Regina Brett
“The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside.” – Maud Hart Lovelace
“Live in the sunshine. Swim in the sea. Drink in the wild air.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Summer has a flavor like no other. Always fresh and simmered in sunshine.” – Oprah Winfrey
“In the summertime, when the weather is hot, you can reach right up and touch the sky.” – Mungo Jerry
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” – Wallace Stevens
“It’s summer and time for wandering…” – Kellie Elmore
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” – Sylvia Plath
“The sun tires of summer and sighs itself into autumn.” – Terri Guillemets
“One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter.” – Henry David Thoreau
Summer was always a conflicting time for me. When I was in school, I mourned the end of comfortable routines and the parts of school that I liked but looked forward to the freedom of the holiday. It was the same during sixth form and university. This year is one of the first summers I’ve had without of educations on either side of it so it’s a bit weird; I’m in uncharted waters to a certain degree. And the COVID numbers are still far too high for my anxiety to relent around all of the possible socialising that summer traditionally involves.
Do you have any quotes that you associate with summer? Or if not quotes, what about poems or songs?
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