Ah, there's nothing like the first few snowflakes of the season to make winter feel almost magical.
Of course, it's a different story after a couple months of frigid cold and frequent shoveling. But that initial snowfall is wondrous in its ability to turn the landscape into a bona fide winter wonderland.
To celebrate Old Man Winter's arrival, we've collected our favorite snow quotes to use for any and all occasions.
Whether you're hanging Christmas stockings as the flakes slowly fall or are headed out for the first ski trip of the season, these seasonal sayings are sure to come in handy.
In the list below, you'll find short quotes from notable figures and poets like Henry David Thoreau who once wrote, “While the earth has slumbered, all the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending.”
You'll also find inspirational sayings from famous authors like Charles Dickens who said, “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.”
Post one of these snow quotes as an Instagram caption, jot one down in a holiday greeting card, or send to friends and family in celebration of a fresh blanket of snow outside your window.
Whatever your winter sentiments may be, these inspired snow quotes are here to help you find the right words to express your feelings — and that's snow joke.
Best Snow Quotes
- “It was the sort of night when you think you could lie in snow until morning and never get cold.” — Faith Sullivan, “The Cape Ann”
- “Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.” — Christina Rossetti, “In the Bleak Midwinter”
- “I wonder if the snowlovesthe trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt.” — Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass”
- “When winter winds are piercing chill, and through the hawthorn blows the gale, with solemn feet I tread the hill, that overbrows the lonely vale.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Woods in Winter”
- “While the earth has slumbered, all the air has been alive with feathery flakes descending.” — Henry David Thoreau, “A Winter Walk”
- “It sifts from Leaden Sieves — It powders all the Wood. It fills with Alabaster Wool, the Wrinkles of the Road.” — Emily Dickinson, “It Sifts From leaden Sieves”
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
- “In winter we lead a more inward life. Our hearts are warm and cheery, like cottages under drifts ... ” — Henry David Thoreau, “A Winter Walk”
- “In the bleak mid-winter, Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone.” — Christina Rossetti, “In the Bleak Midwinter”
- “Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.” — Charles Dickens
- “The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” — Dean Koontz
- “Sometimes I would like to be a child again, and other times a woman made of snow.” — Deirdre Sullivan, “Tangleweed and Brine”
- “Winter is nature’s sleep.” —H. S. Jacobs
- “When snow falls, nature listens.” — Antoinette Van Kleeff
- “If winter helps you curl up and more that makes it one of the best of the seasons.” — Murray Pura
- “Wisdom comes with winters.” — Oscar Wilde
- “Winter forms our character and brings out our best.” — Tom Allen
- “Welcome, winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.” — Terri Guillemets
- “The only other sound’s the sweep,of easy wind and downy flake.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- “Snow brings a special quality with it — the power to stop life as you know it dead in its tracks.” — Nancy Hatch Woodward
- “There’s nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.” — Leo Sayer
- “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” — Vesta Kelly
- "Snow is what it does. It falls and it stays and it goes." — Frederick Seidel
- "The sky, tired of light, has given everything to the snow." — Robert Walser
- “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Short Snow Quotes for Instagram
- "Nature is full of genius, full of divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand." — Henry David Thoreau
- “We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand... and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.” — Marie Beynon Lyons Ray
- “Every avalanche begins with the movement of a single snowflake, and my hope is to move a snowflake.” ―Thomas Frey
- "No winter lasts forever, no spring skips its turn." — Hal Borland
- "There are only two seasons ― winter and baseball." ― Bill Veeck
- “Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.” — Alice Childress
- “I’ll own it’s cold for such a fall of snow.” — Robert Frost, “Snow”
- “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” — Sara Raasch
- “The very fact of snow is such an amazement.” — Roger Ebert
- "How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!" — Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”
- “Now is the winter of our discontent.” — William Shakespeare, “Richard III”
- “Snowfall rouses your inner child to dream and play once more.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby
- “The snow is sparkling like a million little suns.” — Lama Willa Miller
- “When snow falls, nature listens.” — Antoinette Van Kleef
- “Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.” — Anamika Mishra
- “Snowflakes are pretty patterns etched in water’s dreams.” — Anthony T. Hincks
- “Like snowflakes your words fall silent. But my heart still hears your voice.” — Angie Weiland-Crosby
- “Always winter but never Christmas.” — C.S. Lewis, “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”
- “Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.” — Yoko Ono
- “Be like snow — cold but beautiful.” — Lana Del Rey
- “Do you want to build a snowman?” — Anna, “Frozen”
- “What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen.” — William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 97”
- “You can’t get too much winter in the winter.” — Robert Frost, “Snow”
First Snow Quotes
- “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.” ―Carl Reiner
- “Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” ―Sarah Addison Allen,"The Sugar Queen"
- “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep / And miles to go before I sleep.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening”
- "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind.” — William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”
- “Snow had fallen / Snow on snow on snow / In the bleak midwinter.” — Christina Georgina Rossetti
- “Thou wouldst as soon go kindle fire with snow as seek to quench the fire of love with words.” — William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”
- “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their ending!” — J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit"
- “We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt.” — Walter Scott
- “And finally Winter, with its bitin, whinin’ wind, and all the land will be mantled with snow.” — Roy Bean
- “A snow day literally and figuratively falls from the sky, unbidden, and seems like a thing of wonder.” — Susan Orlean
- “Anne came dancing home in the purple winter twilight across the snowy places.” — L.M. Montgomery, “Anne of Green Gables”
- “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne
- “The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.” — William Goldman, “The Princess Bride”
- “One must have a mind of winter, to regard the frost and the boughs, of the pine-trees crusted with snow.” — Wallace Stevens, “Harmonium”
- “Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem.” — William Hamilton Gibson
- “And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so?” — Dr. Seuss, “How the Grinch Stole Christmas!”
Snow Quotes from Songs
- “Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.” — Dean Martin, “Let it Snow”
- “Dashing through the snow / In a one-horse open sleigh/ O’er the fields we go / Laughing all the way.” — James Pierpont, “Jingle Bells”
- “The horse knows the way to carry the sleigh, through the white and drifted snow!” — Lydia Maria Child, “Over the River and Through the Woods”
- “Soft white snowflakes, gently falling / Who has sent thee from the sky?” — Harvey W. Loomis, “A Song for Christmas Eve”
- “I don’t know if there’ll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.” — Burl Ives, “Holly Jolly Christmas”
- “Snowflakes that stay on my nose and eyelashes,” — Julie Andrews, “My Favorite Things”
- “Frosty the snowman, a fairytale they say / He was made of snow, butthe children knowhe cametolife one day.” — Jimmy Durante, “Frosty the Snowman”
- “There’s a tree in the Grand Hotel / One in the park as well / It’s the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the snow.” — Perry Como, “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas”
- “Outside the snow is falling and friends are calling, ‘Yoo hoo!’” — Arthur Fiedler, “Sleigh Ride”
- “I won’t ask for much this Christmas / I won’t even wish for snow / I’m just gonna keep on waiting underneath the mistletoe.” — Mariah Carey, “All I Want for Christmas is You”
- “Where treetops glisten and children listen to hear sleigh bells in the snow.” — Bing Crosby, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas”
Sarah Lemire
Sarah Lemire is a lifestyle and entertainment reporter for TODAY based in New York City. She covers holidays, celebrities and everything in between.