“See, Winter comes to rule the varied year,
Sullen and sad.”

“Ah, woe is me! Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.”

Percy Bysshe Shelley Adonaïs

“To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules
The ravag'd plain—Anon the teeming earth
Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year:
And shall not we—while fate, like winter, frowns,
Expect revolving bliss?”

Tobias Smollett (1721–1771) 18th-century poet and author from Scotland

“A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.”

William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale

“In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.”

John Milton (1608–1674) English epic poet

“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

“Nature appears to us in four seasons. The spring is bright and warm, the summer lazy and hot. The fall is decked with colour with a trace of sadness, and the winter frosted and severe. Similarly, the movement of shin shin toitsu aikido are rich and varied. There is both severity and kindness, speed and calmness. It is designed to express the many moods and characteristics of men and women, young and old. But if it for one moment varies from the principles of the universe, it is no longer aikido with ki.”

Koichi Tohei (1920–2011) Japanese aikidoka

“Happiness comes in moments, & then it's gone until the next time. Could be years. But sadness settles it.”

Dennis Lehane book Mystic River

“I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.”

Vita Sackville-West (1892–1962) English writer and gardener

“Wisdom comes with winters”

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) Irish writer and poet