90 February Quotes To Spring You Out of Winter

By Danielle Dahl

Writer, Ph.D Candidate and Inspirational quote curator

Published October 12, 2023

Enjoy these February quotes that will help you get a jump on your spring cleaning.

February is one of my favorite months.

Even though it is the shortest month of the year, it is jam-packed with events, including Groundhog Day and Valentine’s Day!

It is Black History month, as well as: American Heart Month, Canned Food Month, Grapefruit Month, and Hot Breakfast Month!

Tell us your favorite February quote in the comment section below.

According to research by the University of California, Los Angeles, spending time in nature and connecting with the natural world can significantly impact individuals’ mental and emotional health.

This suggests that February quotes may be a valuable tool for encouraging individuals to spend time outdoors and engage with the environment.

What are the benefits of reading these February quotes?

Who knew that a month with only 28 (or 29 days) could fit all that in?

The weather can be a little crazy… this might have something to do with the fact that we get our information from a groundhog, or maybe it’s just the crazy Montana weather!

On those cold wintery days, you can channel February’s namesake, Februa (a roman cleansing ritual), and get a jump on your spring cleaning!

These February quotes will:

remind you that winter is almost over
prove that there is something to look forward to, even when it is gloomy out
help you navigate feelings of sadness and despair

Even better, grab a blanket and read through these fun February quotes!

Don’t forget to read these magnificent March quotes for more inspiration.

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Windy and Wintery February quotes

Research conducted by the University of Chicago has found that exposure to positive and uplifting quotes can significantly impact individuals’ moods and outlooks.

This suggests that February quotes may be a valuable tool for combating the winter blues and promoting mental wellness.

1. “February is the border between winter and spring.” ― Terri Guillemets

2. “Thick February mists cling heavily to the dead earth and to each leafless tree.” ― Emma Lazarus

3. “February brings the rain, Thaws the frozen lake again.” ― Sara Coleridge

4. “February is short and very sweet” ― Charmaine J Forde

5. “Colour purple. Dream burning, February’s sea.” ― Sadayo Takizawa

6. “February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.” ― J.R. Stockton

7. “Why does February feel like one big Tuesday?” ― Todd Stocker

8. “The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive.” ― Clive Barker

9. “February is just plain malicious. It knows your defenses are down.” – Katherine Paterson

10. “January cold and desolate; February dripping wet.” ― Christina Giorgina Rossetti

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Sunny “springish” February quotes

According to a study by the University of Pennsylvania, individuals who engage in creative expression and artistic activities during the winter months tend to experience greater satisfaction and fulfillment.

This highlights the potential value of February quotes as a source of inspiration for individuals seeking to tap into their creative potential.

11. “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

12. “February, when the days of winter seem endless and no amount of wistful recollecting can bring back any air of summer.” ― Shirley Jackson

13. “The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.” ― William C. Bryant

14. “There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming summer.” ― Gertrude Jekyll

15. “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

16. “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

17. “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

18. “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

19. “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

20. “Probably more pests can be controlled in an armchair in front of a February fire with a garden notebook and a seed catalog that can ever be knocked out in hand-to-hand combat in the garden.” ― Neely Turner

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February quotes about love and inspiration

21. “February days are a marketing gimmick; love happens every day.” ― Randeep Hooda

22. “In February there is everything to hope for and nothing to regret.” ― Patience Strong

23. “February the month of love?!! No wonder the shortest one in the calendar.” ― Dinesh Kumar Biran

24. “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

25. “Though, February is short, it is filled with lots of love and sweet surprises”. ― Charmaine J. Forde

26. “Without Valentine’s Day, February would be well, January.” ― Jim Gaffigan

27. “February is the month of love. I can make your whole life like February!” – Unknown

28. “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

29. “February, a form pale-vestured, wildly fair. One of the North Wind’s daughters with icicles in her hair.” ― Edgar Fawcett

30. “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

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Challenging February quotes

31. “Even though February was the shortest month of the year, sometimes it seemed like the longest.” ― J.D. Robb

32. “February makes a bridge and March breaks it.” ― Witts Recreations

33 “February is the uncertain month, neither black nor white but all shades between by turns. Nothing is sure.” ― Gladys Hasty Carrol

34. “On the wind in February, snowflakes float still. Half inclined to turn to rain, nipping, dripping, chill.” ― Christina Georgina Rossetti

35. “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

36. “No one’s ever achieved financial fitness with a January resolution that’s abandoned by February.” ― Suze Orman

37. “I used to try to decide which was the worst month of the year. In the winter I would choose February.” ― Katherine Paterson

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38. “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

39. “February, take ink and weep. Write February as you’re sobbing, while black spring burns deep through the slush and throbbing.” – Boris Pasternak

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40. “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 quotes about despair

41. “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

42. “The day and time itself, late afternoon in early February, was there a moment of the year better suited for despair?” ― Alice McDermott

43. “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

44. “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

45. “Terrible, dreepy, dark February weather I remember, and the worst, most frightened days of my life.” ― Sebastian Barry

46. “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

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47. “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

48. “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

49. “February is for curmudgeons, whinge-bags, and misanthropes. You can’t begrudge us one month of the year or blame us for being even crabbier, it’s so short. There is nothing good about it, which is why it’s so great.” ― Lionel Shriver

50. “Cold and snowy February does seem slow and trying, very. Still, a month made gay by Cupid never could be wholly stupid.” ― Louise Bennett Weaver

More February quotes and sayings

51. “How come February so beautiful?” – Unknown

52. “Hello, February! Bring love and happiness in our lives.” – Unknown

53. “My life in February becomes amazing, no date, no valentines, no spouse, no bae, just discounted chocolates and me.” – Unknown

54. “Hello, February! Thank you for coming, and thank you for making your stay a bit shorter than other months.” – Unknown

55. “February is the month when nature comes back to normal out of the vails of white.” – Unknown

56. “You may be born in the shortest month, but you sure celebrate a long, happy birthday in February!” – Unknown

57. “Freezing cold winds, biting chills, and white snow fluffed hills Valentine’s day, oh how gay! Presidents’ Day is coming our way. February, sweet and small, the greatest month of all.” ― Eric Lies

58. “In February air. Please don’t lose hold of me out there.” – Unknown

59. “Welcome February and appreciate all what we have.” – Unknown

60. “February came like this. She’s marching with her friend called April. May you never look like it June and July, oh mama.” – Unknown

February quotes that are perfect for Instagram

61. “I like my candy heart-shaped.” — Unknown

62. “February is my love language.” — Unknown

63. “Make your February dreams happen.” — Unknown

64. “February is a nice time to just stay in.” — Unknown

65. “Hello February, please be good to me.” — Unknown

66. “Can February march? No, but April may.” — Unknown

67. “This February, do more of what you love.” — Unknown

68. “May you see love all around you this February.” — Unknown

69. “February is the closest thing we have to magic.” — Unknown

70. “Ready for all the football, ice skating, and chocolates this month.” — Unknown

February Quotes To Spring You Out Of The Winter

71. “I’m about as useful as a fingerless eunuch during Fuck Fest February! someone give me a gun!” ― Robert Kirkman

72. “In February’s dark, we watched the stars explode until daybreak.” ― Laura Veirs

73. “Let’s not talk about LOVE in February only, Let’s give the other months some LOVE too, Let’s spread LOVE every day of the year, And show the world, We really care” ― Charmaine J. Forde

74. “The Polar Intuit of northwest Greenland, the northernmost people, call February ‘seqinniaq’, “the month when the sun appears.” ― Fred Bruemmer

75. “Don’t wait until February to start living in January.” ― Anthony T. Hincks

76. “I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this.” ― Haruki Murakami

77. “Anything after we returned from vacation was a hot autumn day, taunting me with promises of February snow piles.” ― Thomm Quackenbush

78. “she looks at me in wonder and speaks of mimosas in February” ― Hanna Abi Akl

79. “Do not rely on February . . . The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face.” ― Anne Sexton

80. “February 13 should be international condom day.” ― Mario Tomasello

February Quotes About How Unique The Month Is

81. “February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention, or move your relationship to the next level.” ― Pepper Schwartz

82. “February dawn — frost on the path Where I paced all winter.” ― Jack Kerouac

83. “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

84. “February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.” ― Sendhil Mullainathan

85. “February is the shortest month, so if you’re having a miserable month, try to schedule it for February.” ― Lemony Snicket

86. “February, fill the dyke With what thou dost like.” ― Thomas Tusser

87. “By March, the worst of the winter would be over. The snow would thaw, the rivers begin to run and the world would wake into itself again.” ― Neil Gaiman

88. “If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers… February is for doers.” ― Marc Parent

89. “Punch after punch after punch. February is a mean bully. Nothing could be worse – except August.” ― Katherine Paterson

90. “It really gets into your system. All baseball players have this internal clock around February when it starts to kick in and the juices start to flow.” ― David Cone