38 Snow-Inspired Quotes

As the snow blankets the earth in a pristine layer of white, it brings with it a sense of wonder and tranquility that has inspired countless poets, authors, and dreamers throughout history. There's something magical about the way snow transforms the familiar into the fantastical, evoking feelings of nostalgia, peace, and even introspection. Whether you're cozying up by the fireplace with a cup of hot cocoa or embarking on a serene winter walk, these snow-inspired quotes will capture the essence of this enchanting season and warm your heart. Dive into our curated collection of the top 38 snow-inspired quotes and let them transport you to a winter wonderland.

1. “With luck, it might even snow for us.” - Haruki Murakami

2. “Suddenly Ka realized he was in love with İpek. And realizing that this love would determine the rest of his life, he was filled with dread.” - Orhan Pamuk

3. “The more I see, the less I know, the more I'd like to let it go.” - Red Hot Chili Peppers

4. “Whenever she turned her steep focus to me, I felt the warmth that flowers must feel when they bloom through the snow, under the first concentrated rays of the sun.” - Janet Fitch

5. “Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.” - Jean Webster

6. “This is an extra letter in the middle of the month because I'm rather lonely tonight. It's awfully stormy; the snow is beating against my tower. All the lights are out on the campus, but I drank black coffee and I can't go to sleep.I had a supper party this evening consisting of Sallie and Julia and Leonora Fenton - and sardines and toasted muffins and salad and fudge and coffee. Julia said she'd had a good time, but Sallie stayed to help wash the dishes.” - Jean Webster

7. “So all night long the storm roared on:The morning broke without a sun;In tiny spherule traced with linesOf Nature’s geometric signs,In starry flake, and pellicle,All day the hoary meteor fell;And, when the second morning shone,We looked upon a world unknown,On nothing we could call our own.Around the glistening wonder bentThe blue walls of the firmament,No cloud above, no earth below,—A universe of sky and snow!” - John Greenleaf Whittier

8. “Small, red, and upright he waited,gripping his new bookbag tightin one hand and touching a lucky penny inside his coat pocket with the other,while the first snows of winterfloated down on his eyelashes and covered the branches around him and silencedall trace of the world.” - Anne Carson

9. “On an impulse he went into the room and stood before the window, pushing aside the sheer curtain to watch the snow, now nearly eight inches high on the lampposts and the fences and the roofs. It was the sort of storm that rarely happened in Lexington, and the steady white flakes, the silence, filled him with a sense of excitement and peace. It was a moment when all the disparate shards of his life seemed to knit themselves together, every past sadness and disappointment, every anxious secret and uncertainty hidden now beneath the soft white layers. Tomorrow would be quiet, the world subdued and fragile, until the neighborhood children came out to break the stillness with their tracks and shouts and joy. He remembered such days from his own childhood in the mountains, rare moments of escape when he went into the woods, his breathing amplified and his voice somehow muffled by the heavy snow that bent branches low, drifted over paths. The world, for a few short hours, transformed.” - Kim Edwards

10. “I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened.” - Rachel Cohn

11. “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

12. “Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he added, "Emerson.""Lake and Palmer?""Ralph and Waldo.” - Louise Penny

13. “Every Autumn now my thoughts return to snow. Snow is something I identify myself with. Like my father, I am a snow person.” - Charlie English

14. “Now everyone is prouder and poorer” - Orhan Pamuk

15. “His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.” - George R.R. Martin

16. “Outside, the sky was clear, stars gleaming in its ebony vastness like celestial fireflies. It was bitterly cold, and Hywel's every breath trailed after him in pale puffs of smoke. The glazed snow crackled underfoot as he started towards the great hall.” - Sharon Kay Penman

17. “Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person” - Sylvia Plath

18. “The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.” - Maud Hart Lovelace

19. “She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.” - Maggie Stiefvater

20. “The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; it had a way about it. A beauty. But I knew that, like many things, beauty could be deceiving.” - Cambria Hebert

21. “All Heaven and EarthFlowered white obliterate...Snow...unceasing snow” - Hashin

22. “...the wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well.” - George R.R. Martin

23. “Are ye the ghosts of fallen leaves, O flakes of snow, For which, through naked trees, the winds A-mourning go?” - John Banister Tabb

24. “The hollowness was in his arms and the world was snowing.” - William Goldman

25. “So I started shoveling Bob's driveway, which is a strange thing to do at a New Years Eve Party” - Stephen Chbosky

26. “Sniegam ir piecas pamatpazīmes.Tas ir balts.Tas sastindzina dabu un pasargā to.Tas nemitīgi pārvēršas.Tas ir slidens.Tas pārtop par ūdeni.Kad Juko par to ieminējās tēvam, viņš tajā saskatīja tikai negatīvo, it kā dēla dīvainā kaisle uz sniegu viņa acīs ziemas sezonu padarītu vēl biedējošāku.-Tas ir balts. Tātad neredzams un nav pelnījis būt redzams.Tas sastindzina dabu un pasargā to. Lepnais. Kas viņš tāds ir, lai apgalvotu, ka spēj sastindzināt pasauli?Tas nemitīgi pārvēršas. Tātad tas nav uzticams.Tas ir slidens. Kurš gan gūst baudu, paslīdot sniegā?Tas pārtop par ūdeni. Lai vairāk mūs appludinātu atkušņu laikā.Bet Juko savā sabiedrotajā saskatīja piecas citas īpašības, kas pilnībā apmierināja viņa māksliniecisko talantu.-Tas ir balts. Tātad sniegs ir dzeja. Neizsakāmas tīrības dzeja.Tas sastindzina dabu un pasargā to. Tātad sniegs ir glezna. Vissmalkākā ziemas glezna.Tas nemitīgi pārvēršas. Tātad sniegs ir kaligrāfija. Ir desmittūkstoš veidu, kā uzrakstīt vārdu sniegs.Tas ir slidens. Tātad sniegs ir deja. Uz sniega ikviens var sajusties kā virves dejotājs.Tas pārtop par ūdeni. Tātad sniegs ir mūzika. Pavasarī tas pārvērš upes un strautus baltu nošu simfonijās.-Sniegs Tev nozīmē to visu? - jautāja priesteris.-Vēl vairāk.” - Maxence Fermine

27. “The white noise from the old Walkman enveloped them both; like a blanket of new snow, it draped itself over them, shutting out all the curious looks.And the world under the blanket was - surprisingly, wonderfully - absolutely, quiet.” - Antonia Michaelis

28. “And she imagined how things could be later. It was stupid, but the picture just appeared in her mind. Abel and Magnus shoveling snow together... in twenty years, in thirty. Magnus had grown old, his broad back still strong but bent from time, his hair nearly white at the temples. And Abel... Abel was a different Abel, an adult one, one who was absolutely self-confident and didn't let his eyes dart around the room at lunch, as if he were caught in trap. "Nonsense," she whispered. "Thirty years? You don't stay with the person you meet at seventeen... what kind of fairy tale are you living in, Anna Leemann?" And still the picture seemed right.” - Antonia Michaelis

29. “The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.” - Shannon Hale

30. “It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk-colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs.” - Roman Payne

31. “The blizzard seemed to be dying down, and it was now possible to enjoy the sight of the buildings and embankments and bridges smothered in the diamond-dusted whiteness. There's always something soothing in the snow, thought Gabriel, a promise of happiness and absolution, of a new start on a clean sheet. Snow redesigned the streets with hints of another architecture, even more magnificent, more fanciful than it already was, all spires and pinnacles on pale palaces of pearl and opal. All that New Venice should have been reappeared through its partial disappearance. It was as if the city were dreaming about itself and crystallizing both that dream and the ethereal unreality of it. He wallowed in the impression, badly needing it right now, knowing it would not last as he hobbled nearer to his destination.” - Jean-Christophe Valtat

32. “But no one believes in that way what he reads in a novel...Oh yes they do. If only to see themselves as wise and superior and humanistic, they need to think of us as sweet and funny, and convince themselves that they sympathize with the way we are and even love us.” - Orhan Pamuk

33. “The first snow is like the first love. Do you remember your first snow?” - Lara Biyuts

34. “..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...” - John Geddes

35. “...you are enchanted - only a princess can leave glass footprints in the snow...” - John Geddes

36. “She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like a hero in that kind of snow.” - Kaya McLaren

37. “Never Forget Who You Are Beacause Its Like Forgetingg Water Is Wet,The Sun Is Bright,Snow Is Cold.Its Rudunent.” - Andrew Fukuda

38. “Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.” - Ashly Lorenzana