Courtesy of Routinely Nomadic: Best Winter Solstice Quotes, Blessings and Sayings for 2022
“At the darkest time of year, Lord Yule laid down his beard of snow and cloak of frost and ice to illuminate the gloom.”
Stewart Stafford
“The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon.”
Gary Zukav
“The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality.”
Frederick Lenz
“This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year’s threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.”
Margaret Atwood.
“As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.”
Mark Helprin
“At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare, and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.”
Gary Zukav
“This is the night when you can trust that any direction you go, you will be walking toward the dawn.”
Jan Richardson
“At this season of the year, darkness is a more insistent thing than cold. The days are short as any dream.”
E.B. White
“Before anyone starts in on how we have not had a winter, let me just say, ‘No one asked you’.”
Jerrie Whiteley
“The problem with winter sports is that-follow me closely here-they generally take place in winter.”
Dave Barry
“The pale, cold light of the winter sunset did not beautify – it was like the light of truth itself.”
Willa Cather
“How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!”
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
“It was a black and white day of frost, which crawled along the dark trees and outlined twig and branch.”
Robert S. Hichens
“It’s so hard to think in winter. The world seems confined in the space of your heart; you can’t see beyond yourself.”
Patricia A. McKillip
“Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches would turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“These northern-tier countries are populated by a bunch of generally happy people who not only tolerate winter but have come up with strategies for embracing it.”
Stefanie Pettit
“Ice is most welcome in a cold drink on a hot day. But in the heart of winter, you want a warm hot mug with your favorite soothing brew to keep the chill away.”
Vera Nazarian
“But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.”
Mary Balogh
“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.”
J.R.R. Tolkien
