Winter Solstice Quotes

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  • I moved recently and I moved my cable and Internet and phone service which was all provided by Time Warner Cable. And you know, I made a plan with them where they'd come sometime between summer solstice and winter solstice and I would wait.

    Summer   Winter   Phones  
  • The Christian Bible is a symbolic book, not a literal one. The one Christians know as Jesus was actually a symbol for the sun. Ancient sun worshippers believed the sun died at the end of the winter solstice and then three days later it would be reborn at the start of its cycle - December 25.

    Christian   Jesus   Book  
    Interview, metro.co.uk. July 16, 2002.
  • The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

    Pain   Butterfly   Winter  
    "Solstice Joy" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2011.
  • In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

    "The Unquiet Vision : Mirrors of Man in Existentialism" by Nathan A. Scott, (p. 116), 1969.
  • People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

    'The Three Sisters' (1901) act 2
  • 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.

    Home   Winter   Weather  
    Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.176, A&C Black
  • Many Americans celebrate both Christmas and Xmas. Others celebrate one or the other. And some of us celebrate holidays that, although unconnected with the [winter] solstice, occur near it: Ramadan, Hanukkah and Kwanzaa.

    Xmas   Holiday   Winter  
  • Each solstice is a domain of experience unto itself. At the Summer Solstice, all is green and growing, potential coming into being, the miracle of manifestation painted large on the canvas of awareness. At the Winter Solstice, the wind is cold, trees are bare and all lies in stillness beneath blankets of snow.

    Summer   Lying   Winter  
    "Twin Miracles" by Gary Zukav, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.
  • That's what Hanukkah is about: trying to survive the darkness on the far-fetched hope there's still some life and light left in the universe. It's more than just a religious story. The days have been growing shorter, imperceptibly but inescapably darker.... Heading into the night of the winter solstice, every spiritual tradition has some kind of festival of light. We're all just whistling in the dark, hoping against hope that someone up there will see these little Hanukkah candles and get the hint.

    Lawrence Kushner (2010). “I'm God, You're Not: Observations on Organized Religion & Other Disguises of the Ego”, p.103, Jewish Lights Publishing
  • The Christians stole the winter solstice from the pagans, and capitalism stole it from the Christians.

    "Why vegans were right all along" by George Monbiot, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2002.
  • The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time -- a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.

  • Now, near the Winter Solstice, it is good to light candles. All the nice meanings of bringing light to the world can be beautiful. But perhaps we are concentrating on lighting the world because we don't know how to light up our own lives.

    Beautiful   Nice   Winter  
  • I celebrate the spirit of Christmas. It's the winter solstice celebration, rebirth and new possibilities.

    "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview with Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.
  • The Romans had, like other Pagan nations, a nature festival, called by them Saturnalia, and the Northern peoples had Yule; both celebrated the turn of the year from the death of winter to the life of spring - the winter solstice. As this was an auspicious change the festival was a very joyous one... The giving of presents and the burning of candles characterized it. Among the Northern people the lighting of a huge log in the houses of the great and with appropriate ceremonies was a feature.

    Spring   Winter   Years  
  • The night of December 25, to which date the Nativity of Christ was ultimately assigned, was exactly that of the birth of the Persian savior Mithra, who, as an incarnation of eternal light, was born the night of the winter solstice (then dated December 25) at midnight, the instant of the turn of the year from increasing darkness to light.

    Winter   Night   Years  
    Joseph Campbell, M. J. Abadie (1981). “The Mythic Image”, p.33, Princeton University Press
  • 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 (2014). “A New York Winter's Tale”, p.383, Pan Macmillan
  • Nico di Angelo came into Olympus to a hero's welcome, his father right behind him, despite the fact that Hades was only supposed to visit Olympus in winter solstice. The God of the dead looked stunned when his relatives clapped him on the back. I doubt he'd ever got such an enthusiastic welcome before.

    Father   Hero   Winter  
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