New Year's phrases: the most beautiful quotes to wish a happy new year

Desires, budgets, fireworks and good intentions: there are many images that come to mind when we talk about the end of the year, each with its own details. All countries have their own traditions to celebrate New Year, some more famous or original than others. However, things do not always go as we hope and the expectations to celebrate the last night of the year are replaced by reality, not always so magical and perfect ...

What is universal is the exchange of greeting messages between friends, boyfriends and relatives. Precisely for this occasion we wanted to collect the most beautiful phrases to dedicate to New Year, both to those we love and to ourselves.

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The best aphorisms about New Year as a new beginning

The last day of the year has always been understood as a new beginning. The prospect of unprecedented experiences and adventures opens up before us, which we want to complete before the end of those 365 days. Even the great authors have reflected in this sense and here are a few sentences that best explain their thinking.

The first day of the New Year: a fresh start.A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be solved, to embrace and to love, new answers to be discovered and lived.
Sarah Ban Breathnach

That life which is a beautiful thing is not the life that is known, but the one that is not known; not the past life, but the future. With the new year, chance will begin to treat you and me and all the others well, and a happy life will begin. It's not true?
Giacomo Leopardi

Always be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Benjamin Franklin

Those who renew on New Year's renew throughout the year.
Proverb

Every day for me is the beginning of a new year, and I try to propitiate it with good thoughts that free the soul from pettiness.
Lucio Anneo Seneca

The words of the past year belong to the language of the past year and the words of the year to come await another voice.
T.S. Eliot

The old year has passed. Let the dead past bury its own death. The new year has taken possession of the time clock. Everyone is cheering on the tasks and possibilities of the next twelve months!
Edward Payson Powell

And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that never were.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I want every morning to be a New Year for me. Every day I want to come to terms with myself, and renew myself every day.
Antonio Gramsci

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts today.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

New Year's is everyone's birthday.
Charles Lamb

The only joy in the world is to begin. It is beautiful to live because to live is to begin, always, at every moment.
Cesare Pavese

Phrases about melancholy from the end of the year

Just like the end of summer, a veil of melancholy and nostalgia also arrives in the period immediately after Christmas with respect to the year that is about to end. We have collected the most explanatory aphorisms on this subject.

The year has too long an agony. We are sad on December 20 and on December 31 we don't realize that the year is dying.
Jules Renard

It doesn't matter where you spend New Year's Eve, but all the other 364.
Anonymous

The first of the year: heartbreaking day when you have no family, hateful when you have one.
Alfred Capus

It wouldn't be a new year if you didn't have any regrets.
William Thomas

How long does unrequited love last? Months, years, even decades ... The beauty of an unpaid year is that it only lasts a year.
Fabrizio Caramagna

In the end, what matters is not the years of your life, but the life you put into those years.
Abraham Lincoln

Ok, the year is ending. But why must there be another one right away, without even a break?
Maurizio Manco

Let's greet together this new year that ages our friendship without aging our hearts.
Victor Hugo

The most beautiful quotes on good resolutions and wishes for the new year

The beginning of the new year is characterized by the famous resolutions. Whether they are then maintained or completed is another matter, but one cannot end a year without setting one or more objectives for the next one. Here are some famous phrases of the great authors.

The goal of the new year shouldn't be to have a new year. Rather, we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new spine, new ears and new eyes.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The month of January is the month in which wishes are made to one's friends. The other months are those in which the wishes are not fulfilled.
Georg Lichtenberg

I only hope to keep what I have, in the new year I have nothing more to ask for.
Friedrich Hebbel

New Year's Eve is the time when you look towards new horizons, think about new dreams to be realized, rediscover strength and faith, enjoy simple pleasures and gear up for all the new challenges.
Stephen Littleword

Anyone who eats lentils on New Year's Eve counts money for the whole year.
Proverb

Ironic and irreverent aphorisms on New Year's Eve

As with all other holidays, including Christmas, they could not miss some funny phrases about New Year.

"With what desire do you enter the new year?"
“With the desire to be spared from such questions”.
Karl Kraus

I took stock of my year. I'm going to court today and filing for bankruptcy.
Anonymous

New Year's Eve is a harmless annual institution, useful only as an excuse for promiscuous drinks, phone calls from friends and stupid resolutions.
Mark Twain

It can't be a new year already. I haven't finished last year yet!
Charles M. Schulz

Youth is when you are allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when one is forced.
Bill Vaughan

The right behavior throughout the holiday season is to be drunk. That state culminates in the New Year when you are drunk enough to kiss the woman you married.
P. J. O’Rourke

And so here we are at the last of the year ... Another year has gone and what have I achieved this year that the past years have not achieved? Nothing! What consistency, huh?
Charles M. Schulz

I bet that for its part, the coming year hopes that people will be better.
Mafalda, Quino

The best wishes for 2021

Finally, which sentence to dedicate as a happy new year? We have selected a wide choice, so as to find the best one according to the occasion and the context. We just have to wish you a happy new year!

Life is like a play, no matter how long it is, but how it is played. May this year be one of the best acts in your script. Congratulations!
Adapted from Seneca

May the new year be a wonderful twelve-month long smile for you ... Happy 2021!
Anonymous

An optimist stays awake until midnight on New Year's Eve to see the New Year enter; the pessimist, to make sure the old man goes away. May the coming year be an opportunity for you to look forward, without ever looking back.
Adapted by Bill Vaughn

True happiness is not described, it is felt. May your year bring you true joy and big smiles.
Adapted by J. J. Rousseau

Best wishes for a Happy New Year to you too, to the dreams you want to achieve, to the good intentions and goals you want to overcome. To old things and to the good memories that you will want to bring with you in the new year. Live every day with enthusiasm and never let anyone sell you sadness, because when you have peace in your heart, this is your greatest wealth!

The new year is like a book with 365 blank pages ... make every day your masterpiece. Happy New Year!

The whole family joins me to wish you a wonderful 2021. May health, love and success accompany you in all your projects.

Hope smiles on the threshold of the coming year and whispers: "It will be happier".
Alfred Lord Tennyson

This wish is a box full of love, wrapped with joy, sealed with a smile and sent with a kiss. Have a good year!

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. May your new year bring you new beautiful dreams and many concrete satisfactions.

On the road to success, the rule is always to look forward. May you reach your destination as soon as possible. May your journey be wonderful. Happy New Year!

I wish you a happy new year full of projects, meetings and surprises.

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