The Best Snow Quotes You Haven’t Heard Yet—Guaranteed to Put You in a Winter Mood!

Winter’s magic isn’t just in the crystalline sparkle of fresh snow or the crisp morning air – it’s in those precious moments when we transform simple snowballs into memories that last a lifetime.

Remember the feeling of pure joy when building your first snowman, carefully selecting the perfect stones for its smile, or that moment of pride when positioning its crooked carrot nose? From beloved tales of Frosty to timeless literary reflections, snow has inspired generations to see magic in the mundane.

Join us as we explore the most heartwarming quotes that capture winter’s enchanting spirit and the simple joy of bringing snowmen to life.

Observational Snowman Quotes

• “Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together.” ―Vesta M. Kelly
• “Have you noticed since Global Warming took hold that all the snowmen look kind of angry?” ―Dana Gould
• “When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story called ‘How to Build a Snowman,’ from which no practical snowperson-crafting techniques could be gleaned.” ―Sloane Crosley
• “I’m glad that life isn’t like a Christmas song, because if my friends and I were building a snowman and it suddenly came alive when we put a hat on it, I’d probably freak and stab it to death with an icicle.” ―Matthew Perry

Frosty the Snowman Quotes

• “I suppose that it all started with the snow. You see, it was a very special kind of snow. A snow that made the happy happier, and the giddy even giddier.” ―Narrator
• “When the thermometer gets all reddish, the temperature goes up. And when the temperature goes up, I start to melt! And when I start to melt, I get all wishy-washy.” ―Frosty
• “For when the first snow is also a Christmas snow…. well, something wonderful is bound to happen.” ―Narrator
• “Hey, I said my first words… But snowmen can’t talk.” ―Frosty
• “I’m all livin’! I am alive! What a neat thing to happen to a nice guy like me.” ―Frosty
• “You’ve got to excuse him, sir, see he just came to life and he doesn’t know much about such things.” ―Karen
• “Look, the hat’s back. Let’s see if it’ll make Frosty alive again.” ―Karen

Literary Snowman Quotes

• “It was a magical day… and it was on that day I made the Snowman.” ―Raymond Briggs, The Snowman
• “It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.” ―Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
• “It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.” ―Dylan Thomas, Quite Early One Morning
• “The sun came out, And the snowman cried. His tears ran down on every side. His tears ran down Till the spot was cleared. He cried so hard That he disappeared.” ―Margaret Hillert
• “He was the second snowman to be melting away before her eyes, only this one was different. It was a paradox. The colder he became, the more he melted.” ―Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
• “Snow is…a beautiful reminder of life and all its quirks. It makes me pause. Think. Stay still. Even my mind takes the hint. It makes me feel giddy. Like a kid. I bring my hot cocoa to the window and simply sit and reminisce…It brings me back to days of school cancellations and snow igloos and King of the Mountain games in my childhood neighborhood…That for this one moment in time, I’m not an adult with all the headaches that can accompany that responsibility, but instead, I’m still the girl in pigtails with the handmade hat and mittens, just waiting to build her next snowman.” ―R.B. O’Brien
• “…when you’re hard and unyielding your words score me with lines – I hate lines – I want curves – curves are happy like a snowman…” ―John Geddes, A Familiar Rain

Literary Snow Quotes

• “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says ‘Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.'” ―Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
• “Even the strongest blizzards start with a single snowflake.” ―Sara Raasch, Snow Like Ashes
• “A snowball in the face is surely the perfect beginning to a lasting friendship.” ―Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
• “Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.” ―Sarah Addison Allen, The Sugar Queen
• “Thank goodness for the first snow, it was a reminder–no matter how old you became and how much you’d seen, things could still be new if you were willing to believe they still mattered.” ―Candace Bushnell, Lipstick Jungle
• “A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.” ―Nathaniel Hawthorne

• “Since it has quietly begun to snow, new distances have awakened within me.” ―Gerrit Achterberg, Snow Passage
• “At Christmas I no more desire a rose / Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled shows” ―William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost
• “Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow.” ―George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
• “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. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” ―J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
• “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, Apes and Angels (First Snow)

• “What good is the warm of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness” ―John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley in Search of America
• “There’s just something beautiful about walking in snow that nobody else has walked on. It makes you believe you’re special.” ―Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I’m Home
• “With every falling flake, a unique spark of interest falls from heaven.” ―Master P
• “Snow falling soundlessly in the middle of the night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.” ―Novola Takemoto, Missin
• “It is the life of the crystal, the architect of the flake, the fire of the frost, the soul of the sunbeam. This crisp winter air is full of it.” ―John Burroughs, The Writings of John Burroughs: Winter Sunshine
• “Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow” ―Edmund Hillary
• “Snow isn’t just pretty. It also cleanses our world and our senses, not just of the soot and grime of a mining town, but also of a kind of weary familiarity, a taken-for-granted quality to which our eyes are all too susceptible.” ―John Burnside
• “Kindness is like snow, it beautifies everything it covers.” ―Kahlil Gibran
• “The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.” ―E.E. Cummings, Viva (XIX)
• “The snow was endless, a heavy blanket on the outdoors; It had a way about it. A beauty.” ―Cambria Hebert, Whiteout
• “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, Snowy Night
• “The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.” ―Dean Koontz, Brother Odd