Quotes, aphorisms and phrases on the snow, or that atmospheric precipitation that falls in flakes on the earth, leaving a bright white coat to cover every imperfection.
Quotes on the snow
- A snowball in the face is definitely the perfect start for a lasting friendship. (Markus Zusak)
- Snow on water: silence on silence. (Jules Renard)
- I could read the desire for eternity even in the eyes of a snowman. (Valeriu Butulescu)
- I don't want a rose at Christmas any more than the snow in May may wish: I like everything that ripens when it's season. (William Shakespeare)
- The first snowfall is not just an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of world and wake up in another completely different one, and if this is not enchantment then tell me where else I can find it. (JB Priestley)
- Snow has this secret: to restore to the heart that breath of childish joy that the years have mercilessly torn from it. (Antonine Maillet)
- Said a blank sheet like snow: I was created pure, and I want to remain like this forever. I would prefer to be burned and end to ashes than to be prey to darkness and be touched by what is impure. (Khalil Gibran)
- Sometimes the snow falls. If you are silent and you have a clear mind and you are at peace with yourself and with everything, you can lie in the dark and feel the snow falling. (Raymond Carver)
- I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: it brings people together, while time stops. Couples holding hands lazily meander through the streets and children pull sledges and chase each other with snowballs. Nobody seems to be running to experience anything other than the glory of the day. (Rachel Cohn)
- In the face of a well-made prayer, sorrows melt like snow in the sun. (John Maria Vianney)
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- I don't want a rose at Christmas any more than the snow in May may wish: I like everything that ripens when it's season. (William Shakespeare)
- The more the snowball rolling down the snow mountains, the more it multiplied its magnitude. (Leonardo da Vinci)
- Nothing but white to look after. (Arthur Rimbaud)
- We build snow statues and cry when they melt. (Walter Scott)
- What is snow? A little cold, a lot of childhood. The pure presence. (Christian Bobin)
Aphorisms on the snow
- I am the last on your way, the last spring, the last snow, the last fight not to die. (Paul Eluard)
- The two most beautiful things, love and snow, which make you look at the world with the eyes of pure new ones. (Charles Finch)
- In a mountain pension he would go, in the dining room he would go down, the four fir trees from branch to branch, without shaking the fresh snow, from the table next to the window he would look. (Wislawa Szymborska)
- Snow has this secret of giving back to the heart a breath of childhood joy that the years have mercilessly torn from it. (Antonine Maillet)
- We build snow palaces and weep seeing them dissolve. (Walter Scott)
- The sky is low, the clouds in mid-air, a wandering snowflake between climbing over a canopy or a path cannot decide. (Emily Dickinson)
- Old age comes suddenly, like snow. One morning, when you wake up, you realize that everything is white. (Jules Renard)
- There is only something beautiful about walking on the snow that no one else has stepped on. Makes you believe that you are special, even if you know you are not. (Carol Rifka Brunt)
- The sun cannot discolor snow, nor can time destroy what poets know. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
- It also snowed last year: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we took tea together. (Dylan Thomas)
- Kindness is like snow. It beautifies everything it covers. (Kahlil Gibran)
- Snow on water: silence on silence. (Jules Renard)
- How did their lips come together? How can it happen that the birds sing, that the snow melts, that the rose blossoms, that the dawn whitens behind the rigid shapes of the trees on the trembling summit of the hill? A kiss and everything has been said. (Victor Hugo)
- The snow was too light to stay, the ground too hot to hold it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, when the page turns between night and day.(Shannon Hale)
- To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to resist the cold. (Aristotle)
Phrases in the snow
- Some flakes are lost, they grope back towards the sky: meeting those who fall in desired lenses, they turn and descend. (Thomas Hardy)
- When the snow falls, nature listens. (Antoinette Van Cleef)
- Snowfall. The metamorphosis of the world occurs in silence. (Heinrich Wiesner)
- Snow is less terrible than napalm. We fall asleep, it seems, instead of burning alive. (Graham Greene)
- It had almost stopped snowing. The evening was as clear as a charcoal drawing. (Boris Pasternak)
- Snowfall. The metamorphosis of the world occurs in silence. (Heinrich Wiesner)
- The snow falls, the snow falls, as if the flakes did not fall, but in a patched cloak the celestial vault fell to the ground. (Boris Pasternak)
- Many like snow, but I consider it an unnecessary cooling of the water. (Carl Reiner)
- The stones sleep in the snow with green dreams in their hearts. (Olav H. Hauge)
- Where are the snows of the past that dissolved in April? (Francois Villon)
- Open your nostrils. Smell the snow. Let life happen. (Sylvia Plath)
- Among twenty snowy mountains, the only thing immobile was the eye of the blackbird. (Wallace Stevens)
- Each person had to have his own snowflake in which there was an internal map of his life. (Orhan Pamuk)
- Marcovaldo felt the snow as a friend, as an element that canceled the cage of walls in which his life was imprisoned. (Italo Calvino)
- The first snow fell frivolously, on the cold earth, it came forward, it did not remain, it left lightly, three small laps, two dance steps, the snow is a girl. (Christian Bobin)
