“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” — Victor Hugo

“You can’t get too much winter in the winter.”
— Robert Frost

“O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?” — Percy Bysshe Shelley

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” — William Blake

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?”
— John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America “

“A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” — Carl Reiner

“Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.”
— Yoko Ono

“She turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head;
And whispered to her neighbor,
‘Winter is dead.'”
— A.A. Milne, When We Were Very Young

“Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York;
And all the clouds that lour’d upon our house
In the deep bosom of the ocean buried.”
— William Shakespeare, Richard III