“The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.”

“Everything was dying, yet death did not suffice. Life had hidden resources. In a thousand ways it was concentrating strength, hoarding its energies in seed, chrysalis, and nectar, preparing for the warrior sweep out of exile that would undo the defeat of winter. Spring was implicit.”

Michael Swanwick book Jack Faust

“Glory follows afflictions, not as the day follows the night but as the spring follows the winter; for the winter prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the soul for glory.”

Richard Sibbes (1577–1635) English theologian

“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 (1612–1672) Anglo-American poet

“When one flower blooms spring awakens everywhere”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

“Autumn to winter, winter into spring,
Spring into summer, summer into fall, —
So rolls the changing year, and so we change;
Motion so swift, we know not that we move.”

Dinah Craik (1826–1887) English novelist and poet

“Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“Yes, let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.”

Pietro Aretino (1492–1556) Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer

“No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.”

Hal Borland (1900–1978) American journalist and writer

“Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing.”

Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer