The wonderful month of December brings with it the beauty of winter snow, the delicious comfort of warm winter clothing, irresistible festive cheer and of course, invaluable time shared with family and loved ones! Without question, December holds a unique magical allure that has inspired a myriad of December sayings and memorable quotes throughout the centuries.
With Christmas just around the corner, many will already be considering the best heartfelt festive wishes to include in their yearly cards and texts. Yet, before getting wrapped up in holiday celebrations, take a moment to appreciate and properly welcome the year’s final month with a few hello December quotes. Whether searching for the best Instagram caption to go with that wintery pic or seeking inspiration for wishing friends and family a happy December 1st, this article is brimming with inspirational December quotes that will reignite anyone’s love for this remarkable month – the end to what has, hopefully, been a wonderful year for our readers.
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Hello December Quotes & Captions
Hello, December! You’re the last one so be the best one.
– Unknown
Dull November brings the blast; Then the leaves are whirling fast. Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.
– Sara Coleridge, The Garden Year.
There’s something super special about December.
– Charmaine J. Forde
I’ve come to sing you a song called December.
– Ryan Murphy, Down with the Ship
Hello, December! May this month be filled with the joy of the time spent with family and friends. May peace fill your home and your heart. May hope be your security blanket. May love be the most precious gift that you receive and give.
– Willy Nywening, The Journey Home.
December: a month of lights, snow and feasts; time to make amends and tie up loose ends; finish off what you started and hope your dreams come true.
– Unknown
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 Brontë, How Still, How happy!
May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December: evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.
– Lisa Kleypas, Love in the Afternoon.
December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.
– Zinaida Gippius
I blink January’s lashes and gush down December’s cheeks.
– Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence.
Inspirational Quotes for December
December is a simple wish that brings spectacular moments.
– Unknown
In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.
– Alexander Pope, The Dunciad.
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
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.
I have forgotten much, but still remember, The poinsiana’s red, blood-red in warm December.
– Claude McKay
What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.
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, Bare Trees
In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.
– Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life – Fennel’s Journal – No. 1.
Drink deep or be careful how you taste this December vintage. The first sip may chill, but a full draught warms and invigorates.
– John Burroughs, Winter Sunshine
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, Hope.
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 Motivational Quotes
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.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
– James M. Barrie
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
If we make it through December, everything’s gonna be alright I know; it’s the coldest time of winter and I shiver when I see the falling snow.
– Merle Haggard
Spring passes and one remembers one’s innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one’s exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one’s reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one’s perseverance.
– Yoko Ono
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
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.
– Elizabeth Camden
It is never over, though we are in December.
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!
– Mehmet Murat ildan
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 Pearse Cranch
If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow, and ice, and mirth, Place on your hand a turquoise blue, Success will bless whate’er you do.
– Unknown, A Gem for Every Month
December Love Quotes
Will you love me in December as you do in May?
– Jack Kerouac
Remember this December, that love weighs more than gold.
– Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon
Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?
– Clement Scott, In Sight of Home.
I love fall and winter because it gives us more reasons to cuddle!
– Unknown
I want your love to consume me like an over sized winter coat. Hands clasped around my waist like buttons done up properly.
– Unknown
It is never over, though we are in December.
– Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.
– Rod McKuen
If kisses were snowflakes I’d send you a blizzard.
– Unknown
Warm moments with friends and time around the tree with my family make me welcome December with an open heart.
– Unknown
Funny December Quotes
Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realise what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.
– P.J. O’Rourke, Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
When December comes, can ‘The Nutcracker’ be far behind? No, it can’t, not in America, anyway.
– Robert Gottlieb
A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organisation did last December.
– Earl Weaver
It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.
– Sarah Kay
My December is typically one big, sweaty ‘wintry mix’ blur, not a punch-laden, heartwarming mixer.
– Emily Weiss
As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
– Donald E. Westlake
Hope your December is filled with holiday spirit… and me.
– Unknown
If you’re a girl and participate in no shave November, prepare for dateless December.
– Unknown
Once again, we come to the holiday season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
– Dave Barry
December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.
– Mark Twain
Winter & Winter Solstice Quotes
The cold is coming. December’s winter solstice. Start of the season.
– Robert Pettit, Winter Solstice.
With the turning of the wheel of time, let us keep our patience and rejoice in the winter solstice.
– Unknown
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
– Edith Sitwell
The winter solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time — a time to contemplate your immortality.
– Frederick Lenz
I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It’s the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.
– Ian Astbury
Winter is not a season, it’s a celebration.
– Anamika Mishra
In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.
As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.
– Mark Helprin
Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.
– Terri Guillemets
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination.
– Gary Zukav
In this world, only winter is certain.
To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.
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