100+ December Quotes To Increase Your Celebration

December is the twelfth and last month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, which is widely used in the world today. It is a month that marks the end of a year and is associated with various celebrations and holidays in many cultures and religions.

Some of the notable celebrations in December include:

Christmas: This is a Christian holiday celebrated on December 25th to commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ.

Hanukkah: This is a Jewish holiday also known as the Festival of Lights, which usually falls in December.

Kwanzaa: This is a week-long celebration that honors African heritage and is observed from December 26th to January 1st.

New Year’s Eve: This is the last day of the year, which is celebrated on December 31st with parties, fireworks, and other festivities.

In addition to these celebrations, December is also a month of the winter solstice, which marks the shortest day and the longest night of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.

December Quotes

1. “The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.”
— Terri Guillemets

2. “To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.”
— Aristotle

3. “This looks like a December day, it looks like we’ve come to the end of the way.”
— Willie Nelson

4. “It seems like everything sleeps in winter, but it’s really a time of renewal and reflection.”
— Elizabeth Camden

5. “In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.”
— Ben Aaronovitch

6. “Chill December brings the sleet, Blazing fire, and Christmas treat.”
— Sara Coleridge

7. “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus

8. “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.”
— John Steinbeck

9. “God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
— James M. Barrie

10. “There’s something super special about December.”
— Charmaine J. Forde

11. “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

12. “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

13. “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 big sing in the dark of December.”
— Oliver Herford

14. “Shout now! The months with loud acclaim, Take up the cry and send it forth; May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes, November thundering from the North. With hands upraised, as with one voice, They join their notes in grand accord; Hail to December! Say they all, It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!”
— J.K. Hoyt

15. “May and October, the best-smelling months? I’ll make a case for December; evergreen, frost, wood smoke, cinnamon.”
— Lisa Kleypas

16. “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 Bronte

17. “I love the food and drinks in December. I don’t love to eat so much that I get nauseous. I just love to eat little things and enough.”
— seaofwordsx

18. “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

19. “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

20. “By December an elastic skin of ice reached out hundreds of miles into the sea, rolling with every wave.”
— Will Chancellor

21. “The sun that brief December day Rose cheerless over hills gray, And, darkly circled, gave at noon A sadder light than waning moon.”
— John Greenleaf Whittier

22. “Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the trees calligraphic.”
— Dave Eggers

23. “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

24. “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

25. “December’s wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer’s memory.”
— John Geddes

26. “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

27. “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

28. “In a drear-nighted December, Too happy, happy brook, Thy bubblings ne’er remember Apollo’s summer look; But with a sweet forgetting, They stay their crystal fretting, Never, never petting About the frozen time.”
— John Keats

29. “A bare tree stands with roots on both ends in December days.”
— Kiran Bantawa

30. “December. A desperate celebration of an end.”
— Chandrama Deshmukh

31. “December, being the last month of the year, cannot help but make us think of what is to come.”
— Fennel Hudson

32. “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

33. “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

34. “In cold December fragrant chaplets blow, and heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.”
— Alexander Pope

35. “Michigan isn’t just cold in December; it’s arctic.”
— Daniel Milstein

36. “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

37. “There is October in every November and there is November in every December! All seasons melted in each other’s life!”
— Mehmet Murat ildan

38. “In this world only winter is certain.”
— George R.R. Martin

39. “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

40. “Will love be true as December frost, or fickle and fall like the rose in June?”
— Clement Scott

41. “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

42. “I miss being in Barbados in December. That is the time I always remember. The smell of varnish on the wooden floors. And the smell of paint on the wooden doors. The crowds in de Supermarket buying up the rum, and the music blasting. Puh rup a pum pum.”
— Charmaine J Forde

43. “It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.”
— Sarah Kay

44. “If cold December gave you birth, The month of snow and ice and mirth, Place on your hand a Turquoise blue, Success will bless whatever you do.”
— Unknown

45. “Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.”
— William Shakespeare

46. “Remember this December, That love weighs more than gold!”
— Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon

47. “And last December drear, with piteous low-drooped head. In a voice of desolation crying out, ‘The year is dead. And so, with changeful gear, with smile or frown or song, the months, in strange variation, are ever gliding along.”
— Edgar Fawcett

48. “December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.”
— Mark Twain

49. “No matter what my fortune may be, or where I may roam, in December, I’ll be going home.”
— Floyd Huddleston

50. “December is the holdout month, all the others torn away.”
— Anne Gisleson

51. “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

52. “True love is a reflection of the Savior’s love. In December of each year we call it the Christmas Spirit.”
— Thomas S. Monson

53. “A manager’s job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.”
— Earl Weaver

54. “Christmas seems to start earlier and earlier every year. Like, this time, it’s on December 25th.”
— Emo Philips

55. “The December – January period is the strongest time of the year. It is an easy time to shift states of mind.”
— Frederick Lenz

56. “You want to be playing your best in December and hopefully it’ll carry over into January.”
— Philip Rivers

57. “A long December and there’s reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.”
— Adam Duritz

58. “In December people give no thought to the Past or the Future. They thing only of the Present.”
— Carolyn Wells

59. “November, I’ll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you’re the present beneath my Christmas tree.”
— Neil Sedaka

60. “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

61. “Christmas is a baby shower that went totally overboard.”
— Andy Borowitz

62. “What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.”
— Don Marquis

63. “Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
— Victor Borge

64. “That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.”
— Jerry Seinfeld

65. “My husband’s idea of getting the Christmas spirit is to become Scrooge.”
— Melanie White

66. ”Let’s be naughty and save Santa the trip.”
— Gary Allan

67. “I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.”
— Frank Butler

68. “Christmas is a box of tree ornaments that have become part of the family.”
— Charles M. Schulz

69. “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

70. “A lovely thing about Christmas is that it’s compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.”
— Garrison Keillor

71. “Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man’s pockets.”
— Charles Dickens

72. “Christmas begins about the first of December with an office party and ends when you finally realize what you spent, around April fifteenth of the next year.”
— P. J. O’Rourke

73. “The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December’s as pleasant as May.”
— John Newton

74. “Snow falling softly on lashes of eyes you love, and a cold cheek growing warm next to your own in hushed dark familial December.”
— James Schuyler

75. “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

76. “My daughter is almost a young lady. She’s going to be 10 years old in December and I want to be there day in and day out.”
— Gloria Estefan

77. “One thing I learned from drinking is that if you ever go Christmas caroling, you should go with a group of people. And also go in mid-December.”
— Louis C. K.

78. “I spent the year behind on deadlines and everything else. It’s only now in December that I feel even slightly caught up. 2016 has to be better.”
— Justine Larbalestier

79. “I remember, I remember how my childhood fleeted by. The mirth of its December, and the warmth of its July.”
— Winthrop Mackworth Praed

80. “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

81. “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

82. “December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need for the best fresh start of your life.”
— Vivian Swift

83. “Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.”
— Hamilton Wright Mabie

84. “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

85. “Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.”
— Rod McKuen

86. “Snow falling in the middle of a December night will always fill my heart with sweet clarity.”
— Novala Takemoto

87. “December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there’s anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.”
— Lois Duncan

88. “Good morning, happy first day of December. Keep looking up. That’s the secret of life.”
— Snoopy

89. “December is not a season, it is a celebration.”
— Anamika Mishra

90. “December’s immaculate coldness feels warm. December feels like blood.”
— Zinaida Gippius

91. “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

92. “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

93. “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

94. “December is a magical time of the year, with all the Christmas lights and the snow. It’s like a fairytale.”
― Brittany Murphy

95. “December is the time to remember that no snowflake ever falls in the wrong place.”
― Zen Shin

96. “December is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
― Winston Churchill

97. “The December wind is gusty and cold, and the trees are stripped of their foliage, but the sun is bright and the sky is blue. It’s a great time for a walk outside to enjoy the beauty of nature.”
― John Muir

98. “December is the time for remembering the past and reaching toward the future.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

99. “December is a time for family, for love and for forgiveness.”
― Caroline Myss

100. “In December, as in no other month in the year, we are brought the closest to the great fact that all life is a miracle.”
― Owen Feltham

101. “He’s wearing boots, a kilt, and a long-sleeve tee. No coat, even though it’s December. Beautiful people don’t need coats. They’ve got their auras to keep them warm.”
― Jennifer Donnelly

102. “Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it, eager not for drink but for a bit of talk.”
― Monique Truong

103. “As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics.”
― Lord Byron

104. “Be patient with your boaters and let them rant. Most of them will get over it come December.”
― Matt Goldman

105. “Actually, my ideal life would be to have an evergreen tree farm and, every December, I’d load them up and just stand out on the street and sell Christmas trees.”
― Willis Earl Beal

106. “Through the chill of December the early winter moans… but it’s that January wind that rattles old bones.”
― John Facenda

107. “I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time.”
― Taylor Swift

108. “beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water.”
― Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

109. “December is a month of invitation to forget ourselves in the service of others.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

110. “December is a time to reflect on the blessings of the past year and to embrace the opportunities of the coming one.”
― Oprah Winfrey