Inspirational February quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
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Famous February Quotes
February is short and very sweet. Charmaine J Forde
It is growing cold. Winter is putting footsteps in the meadow. What whiteness boasts that sun that comes into this wood! One would say milk colored maidens are dancing on the petals of orchids. How coldly burns our sun! One would say its rays of light are shards of snow, one imagines the sun lives upon a snow crested peak on this day. One would say she is a woman who wears a gown of winter frost that blinds the eyes. Helplessness has weakened me. Wandering has wearied my legs. Roman Payne
Colour purple. Dream burning, February’s sea. Sadayo Takizawa
The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Clive Barker
February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March. J.R. Stockton
The day and time itself: late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair? Alice McDermott
Why does February feel like one big Tuesday? Todd Stocker
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long. Anna Quindlen
The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Clive Barker
The only thing we should scream into the world is love. Jill Telford
February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. Katherine Paterson
Groundhog found fog. New snows and blue toes. Fine and dandy for Valentine candy. Snow spittin; if you’re not mitten smitten, you’ll be frostbitten! By jingy feels springy. The Old Farmer’s Almanac
January cold and desolate; February dripping wet. Christina Giorgina Rossetti
Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest. JD Robb
The shortest day has passed, and whatever nastiness of weather we may look forward to in January and February, at least we notice that the days are getting longer. V. Sackville West
Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises. Charmaine J Forde
February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer. Shirley Jackson
You can never forget the past unless you face up to it. Fan Wu
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. William C. Bryant
When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities. Shannon Wiersbitzky
There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming summer. Gertrude Jekyll
I’m about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun! Robert Kirkman
While it is February one can taste the full joys of anticipation. Spring stands at the gate with her finger on the latch. Patience Strong
Though it was the end of February, the day was a lazy sort of cold. The sun slipped through the cloud in bursts, reminding the landscape that it was still there, prodding snow piles to relax into puddles and stirring sleeping seeds under the ground. Erika Robuck
Late February days; and now, at last, Might you have thought that winter’s woe was past; So fair the sky was and so soft the air. William Morris
For many years, February was a difficult month for me after the death of my parents. My father died in February, just a week before my mother’s birthday. For years their loss cast a pall over the month. I missed them terribly. But time has changed things. I see my father often in the face of my son and I run into my mother daily each time I pass the hall mirror. Mary Morrell
Today is the first of February, snowy, brilliant, but dripping with the sound of spring wherever the sun lies warm, and calling with the heart of spring yonder where the crows are assembling. There is spring in the talk of the chickadees outside my window, and in the cheerful bluster of a red squirrel in the hickory. Dallas Lore Sharp
Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest. Lorraine Snelling
A small bird twitters on a leafless spray, across the snow waste, breaks a gleam of gold. What token can I give my friend today? But February blossoms, pure and cold? Frail gifts from Nature’s half reluctant hand. I see the signs of spring about the land. These chill snowdrops, fresh from wintry bowers are the forerunners of a world of flowers. Sarah Doudney
Late February, and the air’s so balmy snowdrops and crocuses might be fooled into early blooming. Then, the inevitable blizzard will come, blighting our harbingers of spring, and the numbed yards will go back undercover. In Florida, it’s strawberry season shortcake, waffles, berries, and cream will be penciled on the coffeeshop menus. Gail Mazur
I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. I had it figured out that the reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day. Katherine Paterson
February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day. Randeep Hooda
February is short and very sweet. Charmaine J Forde
In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret. Patience Strong
In the small hours of a cold February dawn, Justin and I walked to the Pacific, high cliffs eroding over the ocean, crashed and crashed by lapping salty waves. Their spray misted us in day’s young purple air, exhilarating. Walking the Golden Gate Bridge, our world receding, pale gold sunrise lit thin fog, morning coloring us like a faded fairy tale. Aspen Matis
February the month of love?! No wonder the shortest one in the calendar. Dinesh Kumar Biran
The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February seqinniaq, the month when the sun appears. Fred Bruemmer
In the coldest February, as in every other month in every other year, the best thing to hold on to in this world is each other. Linda Ellerbee
Don’t wait until February to start living in January. Anthony T. Hincks
Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises. Charmaine J. Forde
Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life. Sebastian Barry
Without Valentine’s Day, February would be well, January. Jim Gaffigan
Anything after we returned from vacation was a hot autumn day, taunting me with promises of February snow piles. Thomm Quackenbush
The bitter winds in February were sometimes called the First East Winds, but the longing for spring somehow made them seem more piercing. Eiji Yoshikawa
Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises. Charmaine J Forde
February, a form pale vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair. Edgar Fawcett
February is the shortest month, so if you’re having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February. Lemony Snickett
We may owe our observance of Valentine’s Day to the Roman celebration of Lupercalia, a festival of eroticism that honored Juno Februata, the goddess of feverish febris love. Annually, on the ides of February, love notes or billets would be drawn to partner men and women for feasting and sexual game playing. Saint Valentine’s Day
I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February. The reason God made February short a few days was because he knew that by the time people came to the end of it they would die if they had to stand one more blasted day. Katherine Paterson
Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest. J.D. Robb
If you meet 29th February, think of something unique for it is the only day that defines a year as a leap year. It is the only day that makes February truly unique. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
February makes a bridge and March breaks it. Witts Recreations
A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years A day of temporal tune up. Vera Nazarian
February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure. Gladys Hasty Carrol
It takes three springs to make one leap year. The Comic Almanack
On the wind in February, snowflakes float still. Half inclined to turn to rain, nipping, dripping, chill. Christina Georgina Rossetti
Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning. Rick Tumlinson
Even winter, the hardest season, the most implacable, dreams, as February creeps on, of the flame that will presently melt it away. Everything tires with time and starts to seek some opposition, to save it from itself. Clive Barker
Okay love birds listen up! I have an announcement to make. Today is the 14th of February and it is a special day for you. Try to loosen up and love each other like you inhale the last breath of your life. Make it exciting and enjoyable. Happy Valentine’s Day. Euginia Herlihy
No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February. Suze Orman
In February when my garden is barren of flowers, you are the only flower blooming in my heart. I cherish you and adore you with all of my heart because you are my Valentine. Debasish Mridha
The word February is believed to have derived from the name Februa taken from the Roman Festival of Purification. The root februo meaning to I purify by sacrifice. As part of the seasonal calendar, February is the time of the Ice Moon according to Pagan beliefs, and the period described as the Moon of the Dark Red Calf by Black Elk. February has also been known as Sprout kale by the Anglo Saxons in relation to the time the kale and cabbage were edible. Mystical WWW
The only bubble in the flat champagne of February is Valentine’s Day. It was no accident that our ancestors pinned Valentine’s Day on February’s shirt he or she lucky enough to have a lover in frigid, antsy February has cause for celebration, indeed. Tom Robbins
February, take ink and weep. Write February as you’re sobbing, while black spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing. Boris Pasternak
In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level. Pepper Schwartz
It must be terrible to bury someone you love in early May Or in September or at Christmas. It must be terrible at Christmas. February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long. Anna Quindlen
February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down. Katherine Paterson
The day and time itself, late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair? Alice McDermott
February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure. Gladys Hasty Carroll
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long. Anna Quindlen
The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within. William Cullen Bryant
When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities. Shannon Wiersbitzky
February is for curmudgeons, whinge bags, and misanthropes it’s so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it’s so great. Lionel Shriver
Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life. Sebastian Barry
February is a suitable month for dying. Everything around is dead, the trees black and frozen so that the appearance of green shoots two months hence seems preposterous, the ground hard and cold, the snow dirty, the winter hateful, hanging on too long. Anna Quindlen
Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter? That you have such a February face so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? William Shakespeare
When God was making the months I think February was a mistake, like a burp. There it was, small, dark, and prickly. It had absolutely no redeeming qualities. Shannon Wiersbitzky
In the gloomy month of February, the Deserts of Arabia are not more dreary and inhospitable than the streets of London at such a time. Washington Irving
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned. Hunter S. Thompson
While reflecting on past relationships and learning from them can be helpful, February isn’t the best time to try and gain insight. Amy Morin