75 December Quotes for an Inspirational, Beautiful and Joyful Month

December is here.

A month of shorter days and longer evenings and nights. Of winds howling in the darkness and a cold winter beginning.

But also a month of stillness in a snowy landscape, of warmth shared over Christmas with family and friends and of looking back at the year you’ve had and planning for the next one.

To help you with all of that I’d like to share 75 December quotes.

Ones that will inspire you, ones that will make you laugh and hopefully relieve some end-of-the-year stress and ones that can simply help us all appreciate the beauty of this month a bit more.

Inspirational December 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.”
– Charles Dickens

“December is the month of hope and faith, when even the darkest days fill with light.”
– Unknown

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

“December is a good time to reflect on the year past and dream of possibilities for the year ahead a door closes and new one opens.”
– Rip Miller

“December teaches us that endings are just beginnings in disguise.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“The magic of December lies in its ability to bring people together.”
– Richard Paul Evans

“December is the month of miracles.”
– Unknown

“Welcome winter. Your late dawns and chilled breath make me lazy, but I love you nonetheless.”
– Terri Guillemets

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

“The darkness before Christmas is a time to kindle our inner light.”
– Joanna Macy

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

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

“The cold December wind reminds us that we are generations of survivors, ready to face any challenge.”
– Unknown

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

“What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.”
– Vern McLellan

“Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people’s legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.”
– Sarah Addison Allen

“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 the depth of winter lies the greatest opportunity for transformation.”
– Elise Green

“The spirit of December carries us forward with hope and courage.”
– John Starker

“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 time for home.”
– Edith Sitwell

“Kindness is like snow – it beautifies everything it covers.”
– Kahlil Gibran

“December marks not the end of the year, but the beginning of possibilities both big and small.”
– Unknown

“May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility.”
– Mary Anne Radmacher

“Wisdom comes with winters.”
– Oscar Wilde

Beautiful December Quotes

“December’s first snow is like the first love.”
– Lara Biyuts

“When snow falls, nature listens.”
– Antoinette van Kleef

“December is the stillness in which we touch eternity.”
– Elise Green

“December’s snowflakes are winter’s butterflies.”
– Unknown

“The heart of December beats in silver and gold.”
– Christina Rossetti

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

“December wraps the world in a blanket of white silence.”
– Unknown

“The first fall of snow is not only an event but a magical moment.”
– Francis Bacon

“Winter came down to our home one night, quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow.”
– Eugene Field

“There’s something about the lead up to Christmas that makes you want to capture every moment in crystal.”
– Diana Shore

“December sunshine is like powdered gold over the snowy, silent but living earth.”
– Unknown

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

“December’s stars shine brightest of all.”
– Unknown

“Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.”
– Paul Theroux

“December holds a gift of time with loved ones wrapped in its hands. Welcome it. Appreciate it.”
– Rip Miller

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

“As we look to the new year, hold on to what is good. Let go of what is bad. It really is that simple.”
– Mandy Hale

“New Year’s eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights”
– Hamilton Wright Mabie

Funny December Quotes

“Santa Claus had the right idea. Visit people only once a year.”
– Victor Borge

“In December, even my coffee needs a sweater.”
– Dave Barry

“Dear Santa, I was framed.”
– Unknown

“December is when I finally admit that those summer clothes aren’t going to fit anymore.”
– Nora Ephron

“My December diet plan consists of eating everything before January 1st.”
– Andy Borowitz

“December is the month when the kids try their hardest to prove Santa exists.”
– Bill Murray

“In December, my wallet goes on a diet while my stomach goes to the gym.”
– Ellen DeGeneres

“Never worry about the size of your Christmas tree. In the eyes of children, they are all 30 feet tall.”
– Larry Wilde

“The only thing colder than December is my ex’s heart.”
– Unknown

“December is the month when kids stop being nice and start being perfect angels.”
– Stephen Colbert

“Nothing’s as mean as giving a little child something useful for Christmas.”
– Kin Hubbard

“All I want for Christmas is you… to gain weight with me.”
– Mindy Kaling

“The only thing more overwhelming than December’s darkness is December’s to-do list.”
– Unknown

“I’m only a morning person on December 25th.”
– Rainbow Rowell

“There’s no experience quite like cutting your own live Christmas tree out of your neighbor’s yard.”
– Dan Florence

Short December Quotes

“Winter forms our character and brings out our best.”
– Tom Allen

“December: a month of lights, snow, and feasts.”
– Unknown

“December nights sparkle and shine.”
– Langston Hughes

“Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.”
– Charles Schulz

“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
– William Blake

“December wears winter’s crown.”
– Unknown

“December dances with snowflakes.”
– Beatrix Potter

“Let all the failures of your past year be your best guide in the New Year.”
– Mehmet Murat ildan

“Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.”
– Winston Churchill

“December paints the world white.”
– Unknown

“December’s gifts are many.”
– Elise Green

“Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.”
– Oprah Winfrey

“A December day is brief but beautiful.”
– John Greenleaf Whittier

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

“December lights up the dark with Christmas magic and holiday love.”
– Rip Miller

Christmas will always be as long as we stand heart to heart and hand in hand.”
– Dr. Seuss

“December wraps us in wonder.”
– Unknown

“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
– Mary Ellen Chase

Want more inspiration for the season? Have a look at these 101 inspirational Christmas quotes, the short Christmas quotes in this post and also these 101 funny Christmas quotes. Plus, the uplifting November quotes in this post might be helpful for this time of the year too.