242 New Year Eve Quotes to Ring in 2027

Whether you need a caption for your midnight selfie, a toast for the table, or a line to text someone you love, you will find 242 new year eve quotes below, organized by mood — from countdown excitement to funny one-liners and deep reflections on the year gone by.

Countdown to Midnight New Year Eve Quotes

1. “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
2. “Full knee-deep lies the winter snow, and the winter winds are wearily sighing: toll ye the church bell sad and slow, and tread softly and speak low, for the old year lies a-dying.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson, “The Death of the Old Year”
3. “Of all sound of all bells, the music of all music, the most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.” — Charles Lamb
4. “All is quiet on New Year’s Day, a world in white gets underway.” — U2, “New Year’s Day”
5. “So this is the new year, and I don’t feel any different.” — Death Cab for Cutie, “The New Year”
6. “This will be our year, took a long time to come. Don’t let go of my hand now the darkness is gone.” — The Zombies, “This Will Be Our Year”
7. “What are you doing New Year’s Eve?” — Frank Loesser
8. “No more champagne, and the fireworks are through. Here we are, me and you, feeling lost and feeling blue.” — ABBA, “Happy New Year”
9. “Don’t read the last page, but I stay when it’s hard, or it’s wrong, or we’re making mistakes.” — Taylor Swift, “New Year’s Day”
10. “I’ll be cleaning up bottles with you on New Year’s Day.” — Taylor Swift, “New Year’s Day”
11. “Baby, you’re a firework. Come on, show ’em what you’re worth.” — Katy Perry, “Firework”
12. “I leant upon a coppice gate / When Frost was spectre-grey, / And Winter’s dregs made desolate / The weakening eye of day.” — Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
13. “The tangled bine-stems scored the sky / Like strings of broken lyres, / And all mankind that haunted nigh / Had sought their household fires.” — Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
14. “At once a voice arose among / The bleak twigs overhead / In a full-hearted evensong / Of joy illimited.” — Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
15. “So little cause for carolings / Of such ecstatic sound / Was written on terrestrial things / Afar or nigh around.” — Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
16. “That I could think there trembled through / His happy good-night air / Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew / And I was unaware.” — Thomas Hardy, “The Darkling Thrush”
17. “We two have run about the braes, / And pou’d the gowans fine; / But we’ve wander’d mony a weary fit, / Sin’ auld lang syne.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”
18. “We two have paidl’d in the burn, / Frae morning sun till dine; / But seas between us braid hae roar’d / Sin’ auld lang syne.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”

Auld Lang Syne and New Year Eve Traditions

1. “We’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”
2. “Ring in the valiant man and free, the larger heart, the kindlier hand.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson
3. “We meet today to thank Thee for the era done, and Thee for the opening one.” — John Greenleaf Whittier
4. “The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time.” — Edward Payson Powell
5. “Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius.” — Pietro Aretino
6. “The color of springtime is in the flowers; the color of winter is in the imagination.” — Terri Guillemets
7. “Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments, embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour.” — John Boswell
8. “Sláinte!” — Traditional Irish toast
9. “Sláinte mhath!” — Traditional Scottish toast
10. “Iechyd da!” — Traditional Welsh toast
11. “To absent friends.” — Traditional toast
12. “And there’s a hand, my trusty fiere! / And gie’s a hand o’ thine! / And we’ll tak’ a right gude-willie waught, / For auld lang syne.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”
13. “And surely ye’ll be your pint-stowp! / And surely I’ll be mine! / And we’ll tak’ a cup o’ kindness yet, / For auld lang syne.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Lang Syne”
14. “Love and joy come to you, / And to you your wassail too.” — Traditional wassail song
15. “We are not daily beggars / That beg from door to door; / But we are neighbours’ children / Whom you have seen before.” — Traditional wassail song
16. “God bless the master of this house, / God bless the mistress too; / And all the little children / That round the table go.” — Traditional wassail song
17. “A guid New Year to ane an’ a’, / And mony may ye see.” — Traditional Scottish greeting
18. “Bonne année!” — Traditional French greeting
19. “Frohes neues Jahr!” — Traditional German greeting
20. “¡Feliz Año Nuevo!” — Traditional Spanish greeting

New Year Eve Toasts and Cheers

1. “May you have the hindsight to know where you’ve been, the foresight to know where you’re going, and the insight to know when you’ve gone too far.” — Traditional Irish toast
2. “Lang may yer lum reek.” — Traditional Scottish greeting
3. “New Year’s Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive.” — Jay Leno
4. “The best is yet to come, and babe, won’t it be fine.” — Frank Sinatra, “The Best Is Yet to Come”
5. “Wishing you 12 months of success, 52 weeks of laughter, 365 days of fun, 8760 hours of joy, 525600 minutes of good luck, and 31536000 seconds of happiness.” — Catherine Pulsifer
6. “May you never lie, steal, cheat or drink. But if you must lie, lie in the arms of the one you love. If you must steal, steal away from bad company. If you must cheat, cheat death. And if you must drink, drink with me.” — Traditional Irish toast
7. “May God grant you always a sunbeam to warm you, a moonbeam to charm you, a sheltering angel so nothing can harm you.” — Traditional Irish blessing
8. “May the winds of fortune sail you, may you sail a gentle sea.” — Traditional Irish blessing
9. “May you be poor in misfortune, rich in blessings, slow to make enemies and quick to make friends.” — Traditional Irish blessing
10. “May we get what we want, / May we get what we need, / But may we never get what we deserve.” — Traditional Irish toast
11. “May your blessings outnumber / The shamrocks that grow, / And may trouble avoid you / Wherever you go.” — Traditional Irish blessing
12. “May the luck of the Irish enfold you. / May the blessings of Saint Patrick behold you.” — Traditional Irish blessing
13. “May you die in bed at 95, / Shot by a jealous husband.” — Traditional Irish toast
14. “May the Lord keep you in His hand / And never close His fist too tight.” — Traditional Irish blessing
15. “L’chaim!” — Traditional Hebrew toast
16. “Skål!” — Traditional Scandinavian toast

Looking Back: New Year Eve Reflections

1. “The past beats inside me like a second heart.” — John Banville
2. “The past is always tense, the future perfect.” — Zadie Smith
3. “What’s past is prologue.” — William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
4. “The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.” — Attributed to Mark Twain
5. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
6. “Reserving judgments is a matter of infinite hope.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. “It’s a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.” — Lewis Carroll
8. “I knew who I was this morning, but I’ve changed a few times since then.” — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
9. “I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.” — Carl Sandburg
10. “The bird of time has but a little way / To fly—and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.” — Omar Khayyam, “Rubaiyat”
11. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” — Terri Guillemets
12. “There’s rosemary, that’s for remembrance; pray, love, remember.” — William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”
13. “Our revels now are ended.” — William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”
14. “Memory is the mother of all wisdom.” — Aeschylus
15. “The memory of things gone is important to a jazz musician.” — Louis Armstrong
16. “Nostalgia is a seductive liar.” — George Ball
17. “Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.” — Peter De Vries
18. “But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, / All losses are restored and sorrows end.” — William Shakespeare, Sonnet 30

New Beginnings at Midnight

1. “New Year’s Day. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.” — Sarah Ban Breathnach
2. “For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon!” — Mehmet Murat Ildan
3. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” — Louis L’Amour
4. “New beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.” — Auliq Ice
5. “It is always darkest before the dawn.” — Thomas Fuller
6. “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” — Meister Eckhart
7. “Sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass”
8. “Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice.” — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
9. “Everything’s got a moral, if only you can find it.” — Lewis Carroll, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
10. “The time has come, the Walrus said, / To talk of many things.” — Lewis Carroll, “Through the Looking-Glass”
11. “Our life is frittered away by detail.” — Henry David Thoreau
12. “My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure of that.” — Rumi
13. “A guid New-year I wish thee, Maggie! / Hae, there’s a ripp to thy auld baggie.” — Robert Burns, “Auld Farmer’s New-Year Morning Salutation to His Auld Mare Maggie”
14. “When chill November’s surly blast / Made fields and forests bare.” — Robert Burns, “Man Was Made to Mourn”
15. “The wintry west extends his blast, / And hail and rain does blaw.” — Robert Burns, “Winter: A Dirge”
16. “The woods decay, the woods decay and fall, / The vapours weep their burthen to the ground.” — Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Tithonus”
17. “Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, / O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!” — Robert Burns, “To a Mouse”
18. “My heart’s in the Highlands, my heart is not here, / My heart’s in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer.” — Robert Burns, “My Heart’s in the Highlands”
19. “They sing their dearest songs— / He, she, all of them—yea.” — Thomas Hardy, “During Wind and Rain”
20. “Green grow the rashes, O; / Green grow the rashes, O; / The sweetest hours that e’er I spend, / Are spent amang the lasses, O.” — Robert Burns, “Green Grow the Rashes”

New Year Eve Resolutions Quotes

1. “New Year’s Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.” — James Agate
2. “It wouldn’t be New Year’s if I didn’t have regrets.” — William Thomas
3. “The secret to humor is surprise.” — Aristotle
4. “The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.” — Aristotle
5. “You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.” — Billy Wilder
6. “If you don’t have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?” — Oscar Hammerstein II
7. “The tragedy in life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach.” — Benjamin Mays
8. “The surest way not to fail is to determine to succeed.” — Richard Brinsley Sheridan
9. “If you think you are leading and no one is following you, then you are only taking a walk.” — John C. Maxwell
10. “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” — John C. Maxwell
11. “You don’t overcome challenges by making them smaller but by making yourself bigger.” — John C. Maxwell
12. “Everything worthwhile is uphill.” — John C. Maxwell
13. “It’s not what happens to me but what happens in me that counts.” — John C. Maxwell
14. “The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” — Mark Twain
15. “If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
16. “Learn to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.” — Jim Rohn
17. “A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan.” — Greg Reid
18. “The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.” — Earl Nightingale
19. “You are, at this moment, standing right in the middle of your own “acres of diamonds.”” — Earl Nightingale
20. “The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.” — Vince Lombardi

Fireworks and Celebration New Year Eve Quotes

1. “Happy new year, happy new year, may we all have a vision now and then of a world where every neighbour is a friend.” — ABBA, “Happy New Year”
2. “Celebrate good times, come on! Let’s celebrate.” — Kool & the Gang, “Celebration”
3. “Do you remember the 21st night of September? Love was changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.” — Earth, Wind & Fire, “September”
4. “If you wanna make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make a change.” — Michael Jackson, “Man in the Mirror”
5. “In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope.” — Michael Jackson
6. “You can dance, you can jive, having the time of your life.” — ABBA, “Dancing Queen”
7. “I wanna dance with somebody, I wanna feel the heat with somebody.” — Whitney Houston, “I Wanna Dance with Somebody”
8. “Start spreading the news, I’m leaving today. I want to be a part of it, New York, New York.” — Frank Sinatra, “New York, New York”
9. “The times they are a-changin’.” — Bob Dylan, “The Times They Are a-Changin'”
10. “Tonight we’re gonna party like it’s 1999.” — Prince, “1999”
11. “It’s gonna be a good night, a good, good night.” — Black Eyed Peas, “I Gotta Feeling”
12. “We found love in a hopeless place.” — Rihanna, “We Found Love”
13. “Shine bright like a diamond.” — Rihanna, “Diamonds”
14. “There’s a party goin’ on right here, / A celebration to last throughout the years.” — Kool & the Gang, “Celebration”
15. “Ba-dee-ya, say do you remember? / Ba-dee-ya, dancin’ in September.” — Earth, Wind & Fire, “September”
16. “You are the dancing queen, / Young and sweet, only seventeen.” — ABBA, “Dancing Queen”

Midnight Kisses and Love on New Year Eve

1. “I came here tonight because when you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.” — “When Harry Met Sally”
2. “True love is rare, and it’s the only thing that gives life real meaning.” — Nicholas Sparks, “Message in a Bottle”
3. “I wanted it to be you. I wanted it to be you so badly.” — “You’ve Got Mail”
4. “I like you very much. Just as you are.” — “Bridget Jones’s Diary”
5. “It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.” — William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
6. “Stony limits cannot hold love out.” — William Shakespeare, “Romeo and Juliet”
7. “Jack shall have Jill; / Nought shall go ill.” — William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
8. “So we grow together / Like to a double cherry, seeming parted, / But yet an union in partition.” — William Shakespeare, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”
9. “O wert thou in the cauld blast, / On yonder lea, on yonder lea.” — Robert Burns, “O Wert Thou in the Cauld Blast”
10. “John Anderson my jo, John, / When we were first acquent.” — Robert Burns, “John Anderson”
11. “To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” — William Makepeace Thackeray, “Vanity Fair”
12. “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” — Emily Brontë, “Wuthering Heights”
13. “I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected.” — Charlotte Brontë, “Jane Eyre”
14. “I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant.” — Jane Austen, “Persuasion”

Hope for the Year Ahead

1. “To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born.” — Erich Fromm
2. “Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
3. “Hope does not disappoint.” — Romans 5:5
4. “For there is hope for a tree, if it be cut down, that it will sprout again.” — Job 14:7
5. “There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.” — Robert Green Ingersoll
6. “Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
7. “Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby”
8. “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” — Isaiah 43:18-19
9. “Sing to the Lord a new song.” — Psalm 96:1
10. “For in this hope we were saved.” — Romans 8:24
11. “Blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God.” — Psalm 146:5
12. “The Lord delights in those who fear him, who put their hope in his unfailing love.” — Psalm 147:11
13. “Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed.” — Romans 4:18
14. “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?” — Romans 8:35
15. “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, will be able to separate us from the love of God.” — Romans 8:38-39
16. “Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.” — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Wisdom for January 1st

1. “On ne voit bien qu’avec le cœur. L’essentiel est invisible pour les yeux.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, “The Little Prince”
2. “Fais de ta vie un rêve, et d’un rêve, une réalité.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. “Pour ce qui est de l’avenir, il ne s’agit pas de le prévoir, mais de le rendre possible.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
4. “Petit à petit, l’oiseau fait son nid.” — French proverb
5. “His mercies are new every morning.” — Lamentations 3:23
6. “Do not say to your neighbor, “Come back tomorrow and I’ll give it to you”—when you already have it with you.” — Proverbs 3:28
7. “Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent.” — Proverbs 17:28
8. “Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not.” — Proverbs 4:5
9. “Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.” — Proverbs 4:25
10. “Give careful thought to the paths for your feet and be steadfast in all your ways.” — Proverbs 4:26
11. “Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many.” — Proverbs 4:10
12. “Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life.” — Proverbs 4:13
13. “It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.” — Mahatma Gandhi

New Year Eve Quotes from Songs and Films

1. “Welcome to New York, it’s been waiting for you.” — Taylor Swift, “Welcome to New York”
2. “In New York, concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s nothin’ you can’t do.” — Jay-Z and Alicia Keys, “Empire State of Mind”
3. “We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride.” — “About Time”
4. “Here’s to the ones who dream, foolish as they may seem.” — “La La Land”
5. “This is me. Look out ’cause here I come, and I’m marching on to the beat I drum.” — “The Greatest Showman”
6. “The same old lang syne, the same old lang syne.” — Dan Fogelberg, “Same Old Lang Syne”
7. “Just a funky New Year, everybody’s havin’ fun.” — Eagles, “Funky New Year”
8. “You’re supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God’s sake!” — “The Holiday”
9. “I want the fairy tale.” — “Pretty Woman”
10. “Every man dies. Not every man really lives.” — “Braveheart”
11. “You mustn’t be afraid to dream a little bigger, darling.” — “Inception”
12. “Love is the one thing we’re capable of perceiving that transcends dimensions of time and space.” — “Interstellar”
13. “I was in a New York state of mind.” — Billy Joel, “New York State of Mind”
14. “I’m the king of the world!” — “Titanic”
15. “People love what other people are passionate about.” — “La La Land”
16. “No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else.” — “The Greatest Showman”
17. “I just try to live every day as if I’ve deliberately come back to this one day, to enjoy it.” — “About Time”
18. “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it.” — “The Pursuit of Happyness”

Short New Year Eve Quotes

1. “Carpe noctem.” — Latin proverb
2. “Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.” — Latin proverb
3. “Fortes fortuna iuvat.” — Latin proverb
4. “Per aspera ad astra.” — Latin proverb
5. “Sapere aude.” — Horace
6. “In vino veritas.” — Latin proverb
7. “Sic itur ad astra.” — Virgil
8. “Labor omnia vincit.” — Virgil
9. “Amor vincit omnia.” — Virgil
10. “Cogito, ergo sum.” — René Descartes
11. “Que sera, sera.” — Spanish proverb
12. “C’est la vie.” — French proverb
13. “Joie de vivre.” — French proverb
14. “Raison d’être.” — French proverb
15. “Noblesse oblige.” — French proverb
16. “L’audace, l’audace, toujours l’audace!” — Georges Danton
17. “Après moi, le déluge.” — Louis XV
18. “The gods too are fond of a joke.” — Aristotle
19. “Dum vivimus, vivamus.” — Latin proverb
20. “Ex nihilo nihil fit.” — Latin proverb

Funny New Year Eve Quotes

1. “It all began on New Year’s Day in my 32nd year of being single.” — Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”
2. “I will not drink more than fourteen alcohol units a week, smoke, waste money, or eat cheese.” — Helen Fielding, “Bridget Jones’s Diary”
3. “I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn’t work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.” — Emo Philips
4. “A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.” — Steven Wright
5. “I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.” — Steven Wright
6. “I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” — Bill Cosby
7. “I’ll have what she’s having.” — “When Harry Met Sally”
8. “A good friend will always stab you in the front.” — Oscar Wilde
9. “A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.” — George Bernard Shaw
10. “Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw
11. “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” — George Bernard Shaw
12. “The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.” — Albert Einstein
13. “The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.” — Henry David Thoreau
14. “One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.” — Oscar Wilde
15. “Ha! whare ye gaun, ye crowlin ferlie? / Your impudence protects you sairly.” — Robert Burns, “To a Louse”
16. “I worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.” — Groucho Marx

Inspirational New Year Eve Quotes

1. “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.” — Maya Angelou
2. “No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” — Maya Angelou
3. “Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation that is not nurturing to the whole woman.” — Maya Angelou
4. “There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.” — Maya Angelou
5. “Follow your heart, listen to your inner voice, stop caring about what others think.” — Roy T. Bennett
6. “Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey.” — Roy T. Bennett
7. “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” — Roy T. Bennett
8. “Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes.” — Roy T. Bennett
9. “The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried.” — Roy T. Bennett
10. “You teach best what you most need to learn.” — Richard Bach
11. “Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.” — Richard Bach
12. “To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.” — Richard Bach
13. “The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.” — Richard Bach
14. “In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.” — Richard Bach
15. “Miles to go before I sleep.” — Robert Frost, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”
16. “The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy.” — Richard Bach
17. “Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.” — Richard Bach

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the most famous New Year Eve quote?

The most famous is the opening line of Robert Burns’ “Auld Lang Syne” — “Should auld acquaintance be forgot, and never brought to mind?” — sung around the world at the stroke of midnight every December 31st. You can read more about the song’s history on Wikipedia.

What should I write in a New Year Eve card?

Keep it warm and forward-looking. A short line about gratitude for the past year plus hope for the new one works best — many of the new year eve quotes above in the “Hope for the Year Ahead” section are perfect for cards.

What is a good New Year Eve toast?

A classic toast is short, raises a glass, and wishes health and happiness. The “New Year Eve Toasts and Cheers” section above has traditional toasts from Ireland, Scotland, Wales, France, Germany, and more.

When is New Year Eve 2026?

New Year’s Eve 2026 falls on Thursday, December 31, 2026 — the last day of the year, celebrated with countdowns, fireworks, and midnight kisses around the world.

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