“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”

— Charles Bukowski , book Post Office

Source: Post Office

Last update Nov. 2, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "In the morning it was morning and I was still alive." by Charles Bukowski?

Charles Bukowski 555

American writer 1920–1994

Related quotes

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.
Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought.
And then I did.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“Every morning
I wake up with the news
of bloodshed.
I feel my body,
desperate to know whether
I’m still alive.”

Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist

<span class="plainlinks"> Every Morning http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/every-morning-7/</span>
From Poetry

“What I wanted to do seemed simple. I wanted something alive and shocking enough that it could be a morning in somebody's life. The most ordinary morning. Imagine, trying to do that.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Red Bird

“Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,
When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;
Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,
Dawns the sweet consciousness, — I am with Thee.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

Reported in James Freeman Clarke, Book of Worship for the Congregation and the Home (1852), p. 431.

“I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: Froi of the Exiles

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love…”

Marcus Aurelius book Meditations

Variant: When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive-to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.
Source: Meditations

“What a thrill, what a shock, to be alive on a morning in June, prosperous, almost scandalously privileged, with a simple errand to run.”

Michael Cunningham book The Hours

Source: The Hours

“I get up very early in the morning. I enjoy the quietness, the stillness, the rawness in the winter and fall. It's a special time.”

Ted Kennedy (1932–2009) United States Senator

Esquire: The Meaning of Life (2009), p. 81

“’Neath cold sand I dreamed of death / but woke at dawn to see / in glory, the bright, the morning star.
This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”

William Styron book Sophie's Choice

Last lines
Sophie's Choice (1979)

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Charles Bukowski 555

Related quotes

Related topics