The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night — Ralph Waldo Emerson
After winter comes the summer. After night comes the dawn. After every storm, there comes clear, open skies. — Samuel Rutherford
And joy is everywhere; it is in the earth’s green covering of grass; in the blue serenity of the sky;
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer. — Mary Tyler Moore
As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions — Johann Paul Friedrich Richter
Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot — William Shakespeare
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . — Charles Dickens
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it — Andrew Wyeth
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was within me an invincible summer. — Albert Camus
If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity — Anne Bradstreet
Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter. Who would think that those branches — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are reformers in spring and summer; in autumn and winter, we stand by the old; — Ralph Waldo Emerson
How like a winter hath my absence been. From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year! — William Shakespeare