Winter Quotes

Embrace the beauty and majesty of this season. Happy Winter Solstice! 

—Jovanna

"Winter is not a season, it's a celebration".    
— Anamika Mishra

“Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas … perhaps … means a little bit more.”  —Dr. Seuss

"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, bursting forth into unexpected glory."    
— Gary Zukav

"In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold."
―Ben Aaronovitch, Broken Homes

"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
— Pietro Aretino

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn."  
— Hal Borland

"Winter is a season of recovery and preparation."
— Paul Theroux

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

"What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness."    
— John Steinbeck

"The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter."
— Benjamin Alire Saenz

"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."
— Anne Bradstreet

"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
— William Blake

"He who marvels at the beauty of the world in summer will find equal cause for wonder and admiration in winter.... In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity."  
— John Burroughs

"Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth."
— Hugh Macmillan

"The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination."    
— Terri Guillemets

"Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dark trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more than prettiness."
— Mary Oliver

"How many lessons of faith and beauty we should lose, if there were no winter in our year!"
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

"In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature."
— Edna O'Brien

"Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake."
— Sara Raasch

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?" — J.B. Priestley

"Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality."
— Andy Goldsworthy

"You can't get too much winter in the winter."
— Robert Frost

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand in the cold.”
―Aristotle

“Snowflakes are one of nature's most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.”
― Vesta M. Kelly

In winter, forgive the fallen leaves of your past.
― Terri Guillemets

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.
―From the movie An Affair to Remember

"One kind word can warm three winter months. "
— Japanese Proverb

"I pray this winter be gentle and kind--a season of rest from the wheel of the mind. "
— John Geddes

Chaos in Mythology

In Greek mythology, Chaos or Khaos is the primeval state of existence from which the first gods appeared. In other words, the dark void of space. It is made from a mixture of what the Ancient Greeks considered the four elements: earth, air, water and fire. For example, when a log is burned, the flames were attributed to the fire in it, the smoke the air in it, the water and grease that come from it were supposed to be the water, and the ashes left over were the earth.

Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, described Chaos as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named". From that, its meaning evolved into the modern familiar "complete disorder”.

Chaos features three main characteristics:

• It is a bottomless gulf where anything falls endlessly. This radically contrasts with the Earth that emerges from it to offer a stable ground.
• It is a place without any possible orientation, where anything falls in every direction.
• It is a space that separates, that divides: after the Earth and the Sky parted, Chaos remains between both of them.

Theogonia

According to Hesiod's Theogonia (The origin of the Gods), Chaos was the nothingness out of which the first objects of existence appeared. These first beings, described as children of Chaos alone, were Gaia (the Earth), Tartarus (the Underworld), Nyx (the darkness of the night), Erebus (the darkness of the Underworld), and Eros (sexual love). From these beings and the first generation of beings created by them, Hesiod establishes the deities related to each element known to early Greeks, beginning with the primordial elements: the Earth, the starry Sky (Ouranos), and the Sea (Pontus). Theogonia presents two ways to come to life: division (Gaia, Nyx) and mating.

Primal Chaos

In Ancient Greek cosmology, Chaos was the first thing to exist and the womb from which everything emerged. For Hesiod and the Olympian mythos, Chaos was the 'vast and dark' void from which the first deity, Gaia, emerged.

In the Pelasgian creation myth, Eurynome ('goddess of everything') emerged from this Chaos and created the Cosmos from it.

For Orphics, it was called the 'Womb of Darkness' from which the Cosmic Egg that contained the Universe emerged. It is sometimes conflated with 'Black Winged Night'.

The idea is also found in Mesopotamia and associated with Tiamat the 'Dragon' of Chaos, from whose dismembered body the world was formed.

Genesis refers to the earliest conditions of the Earth as "without form and void," a state similar to chaos.

Primal Chaos was sometimes said to be the true foundation of reality, particularly by philosophers such as Heraclitus and those trained in Orphic schools. It was the opposite of Platonism. It was also probably what Aristotle had in mind when he developed the concept of Prima Materia in his attempt to combine Platonism with the Presocraticism and Naturalism. It was a concept inherited by the theory of Alchemy.