The cold winter months are famous for bringing with them a sad and gloomy atmosphere. As the days of November come to an end and December starts rising in glory, the temperature dips at that spot and people are gripped by chilly, cold waves.
The hot flashes of the summers are now replaced by the cold, dry waves of winter air. And as the sun starts setting earlier, with each passing day, our urge to snuggle inside a cozy blanket, with a cup of hot chocolate and our favourite movie grows more and more.
So, welcome this December not with the gloomy face and runny nose, but rather cheer and joy! And to help you out, here we have 50 quotes that will help you get in not just the December spirit but also the festive, Christmas spirit.
1. “This looks like a December day, it looks like we’ve come to the end of the way.” – Willie Nelson
2. “It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.” – Elizabeth Camden
3. “In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.” – Ben Aaronovitch
4. “Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.” – Sara Coleridge
5. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
6. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” – James M. Barrie
7. “When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath, and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.” – Pippa Middleton
8. “Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.” – Charles Dickens
9.“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.” – Lisa Kleypas
10.“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.” – Emily Jane Bronte
11. “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows.” – William Shakespeare
12. “By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.” – Will Chancellor
13. “The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.” – John Greenleaf Whittier
14. “The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” – Dylan Thomas
15. “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.” – John Geddes
16. “In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er remember Apollo’s summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.” – John Keats
17. “December. A desperate celebration of an end.” – Chandrama Deshmukh
18. “December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.” – Fennel Hudson
19. “In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.” – Alexander Pope
20. “Outside the house, it was storming, a busy downfall of flakes that the wind blew lightly across acres of old snow left from December.” – Gladys Hasty Carroll
21. “What feels like the end is often the beginning.” — Unknown
22. “In this world only winter is certain.” – George R.R. Martin
23. “Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?” – Clement Scott
24. “I miss being in Barbados in December. That is the time I always remember. The smell of varnish on the wooden floors. And the smell of paint on the wooden doors. The crowds in de Supermarket buying up the rum, and the music blasting. Puh rup a pum pum.” – Charmaine J Forde
25. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.” – William Shakespeare
26. “December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.” – Mark Twain
27. “That’s the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it’s gone. And it’s like you were never there.” — Donal Ryan
28. “A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.” — Adam Duritz
29. “November, I’ll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you’re the present beneath my Christmas tree.” — Neil Sedaka
30. “Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.” — Charles Dickens
31. “The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December’s as pleasant as May.” — John Newton
32. “I have forgotten much, but still remember, The poinsiana’s red, blood-red in warm December.” – Claude McKay
33. “I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.” — Winthrop Mackworth Praed
34. “December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.” — Vivian Swift
35. “Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” — Hal Borland
36. “Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” — Novala Takemoto
37. “December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there’s anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface” — Lois Duncan
38. “I love December, because it’s the only month when you can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks.” ― John Waters
39. “December is the perfect month to think of others and to remember that, in the end, it’s not how many presents we gave or received but how much love we shared that counts.” ― Dan Zadra
40. “December is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.” ― Winston Churchill
41. “December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
42. “As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.” ― Lord Byron
43. “December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.” ― Oprah Winfrey
44. “December is the time to remember that no snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.” ― Zen Shin
45. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.” — Garrison Keillor
46. “The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” — Terri Guillemets
47. Cold in the earth and fifteen wild Decembers, from those brown hills, have melted into spring.” — Emily Bronte
48. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” — Albert Camus
49. “The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season.” — Robert Pettit
50. “Do your heart and head keep pace? When does hoary Love expire, when do frosts put out the fire? Can its embers burn below all that chill December snow?” — Edmund Clarence Stedman
BONUS: 4 beautiful poetic lines about December 1. Snowbound by John Greenleaf WhittierThe sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.
2. Come, come thou bleak December wind by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeCome, come thou bleak December wind,
And blow the dry leaves from the tree!
Flash, like a Love-thought, thro' me, Death
And take a Life that wearies me.
3. December Days By Caleb PrentissFleecy flakes of snow descend,
Boreal winds the welkin rend.
Reflect, oh man! and well remember
That dull old age is dark December.
4. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow;—vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore
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