December – the last month of the year. It has such a sparkling personality, doesn’t it? Perhaps the most reflective and celebrating of months, December gives the most tangible feeling of time. Let’s feel what this menoth means to each of us with December quotes today!
December means new year, Christmas, parties, holidays, family, disbelief at how quickly another year went away, gifts, winter, snow, beauty, sparkling lights, and hope.
For some us, it also means fear, sadness, and reducing hope. We all live December differently. One thing’s for sure, December comes strongly.
I hope that with these quotes, you’ll find what you are looking for, whether it be hope, motivation, understanding, or appreciation. I wish you a beautiful December!
December Quotes
“How did it get so late so soon?”
― Dr. Seuss
“Of all the months of the year there is not a month one half so welcome to the young, or so full of happy associations, as the last month of the year.”
― Charles Dickens
“I heard a bird sing in the dark of December. A magical thing. And sweet to remember. We are nearer to Spring than we were in September. I heard a bird sing in the dark of December.”
― Oliver Herford
“The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
― Terri Guillemets
“It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood!”
― Roman Payne
“It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.”
― Dylan Thomas
“May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
― Lisa Kleypas
“December. A desperate celebration of an end.”
― Chandrama Deshmukh
“This looks like a December day, it looks like we’ve come to the end of the way.”
― Willie Nelson
“December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.”
― Zinaida Gippius
“Hot cocoa and cold toes remind me of Christmas.”
― Toni Sorenson
“There’s something super special about December.”
― Charmaine J. Forde
“December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.”
― Anne Gisleson
“To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
― Aristotle
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.”
― Dylan Thomas
“I’ve come to sing you a song called December.”
― Ryan Murphy
“December is a month of divine deal.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
― James M. Barrie
“It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.”
― Elizabeth Camden
“It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
― Sarah Kay
“From December to March, there are for many of us three gardens – the garden outdoors, the garden of pots and bowls in the house, and the garden of the mind’s eye.”
― Katherine S. White
“Outside the house, it was storming, a busy downfall of flakes that the wind blew lightly across acres of old snow left from December.”
― Gladys Hasty Carroll
“December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
― Fennel Hudson
“It is never over, though we are in December!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
“I blink January’s lashes
and gush down December’s cheeks”
― Sanober Khan
“What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.”
― Don Marquis
“My brothers and sisters, true love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year, we call it the Christmas spirit. You can hear it. You can see it. You can feel it.”
― Thomas S. Monson
“You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it’ll carry over into January.”
Philip Rivers
“The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.” ― Dylan Thomas
“In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.”
― Carolyn Wells
“By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.”
― Will Chancellor
“A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.”
― Adam Duritz
“In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
― Ben Aaronovitch
“November, I’ll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you’re the present beneath my Christmas tree.”
― Neil Sedaka
“December drops no weak, relenting tear,
By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared.
Nor from the perfect circle of the year
Can even Winter’s crystal gems be spared.”
― Christopher Pearce Cranch
“Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.”
― Charles M. Schulz
“I love December, because it’s the only month when you can sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of socks.”
― John Waters
“I prefer winter and fall when you feel the bone structure of the landscape – the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn’t show.”
― Andrew Wyeth
“Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.”
― Sara Coleridge
“Each year of your life is a wonderful ride, with the most hopeful time being when December turns the keys over to January.”
― Efiosiugbore Adebayo
“December is not a season, it is a celebration.”
― Anamika Mishra
“Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”
― Andy Borowitz
“This holiday season, no matter what your religion is, please take a moment to reflect on why it’s better than all the other ones.”
― Guy Endore Kaiser
“When I was a child, my December weekends were spent making cards, decorating the tree, hanging the wreath, and preparing brandy butter and peppermint creams.”
― Pippa Middleton
“Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
― Novala Takemoto
“In the suburbs, it’s hard to buy your Christmas gifts early in the year. You never know who your friends will be in December.”
― Milton Berle
“December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
― John Geddes
“A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.”
― Kiran Bantawa
“Good morning, happy first day of December. Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.”
― Snoopy
“I shave my legs twice a week. It’s hard the first time you do it. But I’m very lazy. For a team photo in December, I just did the fronts.”
― David Millar
“I go back to December all the time.”
― Taylor Swift
“December is a month of enormous potential. It’s a time when we can all give and receive, a time when the spirit of humanity shines brightest.”
― Michael Josephson
“That’s the thing about December: it goes by you in a flash. If you just close your eyes, it’s gone. And it’s like you were never there.”
― Donal Ryan
“Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”
― Rod McKuen
“There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan
“Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.”
― Dave Eggers
Motivational December Quotes
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
― John Steinbeck
“True love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.”
― Thomas S. Monson
“Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?”
― Clement Scott
“Yet my heart loves December’s smile as much as July’s golden beam; then let us sit and watch the while the blue ice curdling on the stream.”
― Emily Jane Brontë
“Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
― Hal Borland
“In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.”
― Alexander Pope
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose
Than wish a snow in May’s new-fangled mirth;
But like of each thing that in season grows.”
― William Shakespeare
“December is the perfect month to think of others and to remember that, in the end, it’s not how many presents we gave or received but how much love we shared that counts.”
― Dan Zadra
“The December – January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.”
― Frederick Lenz
“December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
― Mark Twain
“December is a month of invitation to forget ourselves in the service of others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson
“If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be all right; it’s the coldest time of winter and I shiver when I see the falling snow.”
― Merle Haggard
“In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan, earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone; snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow, in the bleak midwinter, long ago.”
― Christina Rossetti
“In this world only winter is certain.”
― George R.R. Martin
“December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.”
― Oprah Winfrey
“No matter what my fortune may be, or where I may roam, in December, I’ll be going home.”
― Floyd Huddleston
“I know. I’m lazy. But I made myself a New Years’ resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have ‘til December, right?”
― Catherine O’Hara
“December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.”
― Anne Gisleson
“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
― Vivian Swift
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