Quotes about day
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“Oh God. valentine's Day tomorrow. Why? Why? Why is (the) entire world geared to make people not involved in romance feel stupid when everyone knows romance does not work anyway. Look at (the) royal family. Look at Mum and Dad.”

Helen Fielding book Bridget Jones's Diary

Source: Bridget Jones's Diary

God, People, Stupidity, World

“Life has puffed and blown itself into a summer day, and clouds and spring billow over the heavens as if calendars were a listing of mathematical errors.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Source: Dear Scott, Dearest Zelda: The Love Letters of F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald

Life, Error, Spring, Mathematics

“People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they're not. - Lara Jean”

Jenny Han book To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Variant: People come in and out of your life. For a time they are your world; they are everything. And then one day they’re not. There’s no telling how long you will have them near.
Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Life, People, World, Time

“… which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?”

Louise Erdrich (1954) writer from the United States

Source: The Painted Drum

World, Beauty

“Not even waste/is inviolate./The day misspent,/the love misplaced,/has inside it/the seed of redemption./Nothing is exempt from resurrection.”

Kay Ryan (1945) American poet

Variant: The day misspent,
the love misplaced,
has inside it
the seed of redemption.
Nothing is exempt
from resurrection.
Source: Say Uncle

Love

“Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.”

Miles Davis (1926–1991) American jazz musician

“Sometimes it's braver not to fight. Protect them, and save your vengeance for another day.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Fight

“Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spend the rest of the day putting the pieces together.”

Ray Bradbury book Zen in the Art of Writing

Source: Zen in the Art of Writing

“The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter. But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

Roberto Bolaño book Last Evenings on Earth

Dentist
Last Evenings on Earth (2006)

Life, Lie, Secret, Art

“I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Time, Fight

“Sit down every day and DO IT. Writing is a self-taught craft; the more you work at it, the more skilled you become. And when you're not writing, READ.”

Lois Duncan (1934–2016) American young-adult and children's writer

Reading

“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”

Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian

Source: The Historian

Books

“I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it.

Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Life

“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but… life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Life, Birth

“All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.”

Alan Moore book Batman: The Killing Joke

Batman : The Killing Joke (1988)
Source: Batman: The Killing Joke
Context: I've demonstrated there's no difference between me and everyone else! All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

World

“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

Future

“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" There is no speech nor language where this voice is not heard; but the bold, bad man heard it not. He woke with an oath and a curse. What to him was the gold and purple, the daily miracle of morning!”

Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin

Ch 36 Emmeline and Cassy
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)

Beauty, Chance

“One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library.”

Richelle Mead book The Indigo Spell

Source: The Indigo Spell

Books

“How come you don't work fourteen hours a day? Your great-great-grandparents did. How come you only work the eight-hour day? Four guys got hanged fighting for the eight-hour day for you.”

Studs Terkel (1912–2008) American author, historian and broadcaster

Source: Touch and Go: A Memoir

Guy, Fight

“You're off to great places. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So… get on your way.”

Dr. Seuss (1904–1991) American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of Beginner Books

Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990)
Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Way, Mountain, Waiting

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Feeling, Thinking

“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I'm afraid I'll stutter.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Lying, Thinking, Time, Sad

“It's easy to talk to a horse if you understand his language. Horses stay the same from the day they are born until the day they die. They are only changed by the way people treat them.”

Laura Hillenbrand book Seabiscuit: An American Legend

Source: Seabiscuit: An American Legend

People, Way, Understanding, Change

“Dandelion wine. The words were summer on the tongue. The wine was summer caught and stoppered… sealed away for opening on a January day with snow falling fast and the sun unseen for weeks…”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Wine, Sun, Summer

“Often it is tenacity, not talent, that rules the day.”

Julia Cameron (1948) American writer

Source: Finding Water: The Art of Perseverance

“Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Training

“dissonance, n.

Nights when I need to sleep and you can't. Days when I want to talk to you and you won't. Hours when every noise you make interferes with my silence. Weeks when there is a buzzing in the air, and we both pretend we don't here it.”

David Levithan The Lover's Dictionary

Source: The Lover's Dictionary

Sleep, Silence, Night

“I know I walk in and out of several worlds each day.”

Joy Harjo (1951) American writer

World

“Hell’s waking up every goddamn day and not even knowing why you’re here.”

Frank Miller book The Hard Goodbye

Source: The Hard Goodbye

Hell

“All day, the colors had been those of dusk, mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of mountains possessed of ocean shadows and depths.”

Kiran Desai book The Inheritance of Loss

Source: The Inheritance of Loss

Color, Mountain, Water

“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”

Atul Gawande book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Way, Knowledge, Learning

“She knew words no one had ever heard of, and she used words every day that had been mainly dead or sleeping for hundreds of years.”

Mark Helprin (1947) US author, journalist, commentator

Sleep, Dead

“Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.”

Ellen DeGeneres (1958) American stand-up comedian, television host, and actress

Source: The Funny Thing Is...

Life

“In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.”

Stephen E. Ambrose (1936–2002) American historian

Source: Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler's Eagle's Nest

War, Thinking

“It was inevitable for people to try to create a sense of normalcy in a place where nothing was normal. It helped one get through the day, to add predictability to a life that was inherently unpredictable.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Choice

Source: The Choice

Life, People, Sense, Help

“The fact is, I love him. He's the boy I want and one day he'll be MINE.”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess in Training

Love, Boy

“Look lak she been livin' through uh hundred years in January without one day of spring.”

Zora Neale Hurston book Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

Spring

“The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flower—suitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”

Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress

Flowers, Wedding, Memory

“Looks like I’m going to ruin your day, Big Boy. I choose to live my crappy life a little longer. (Susan)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Life, Boy

“Anyhow, the older I get, the less impressed I become with originality. These days, I’m far more moved by authenticity. Attempts at originality can often feel forced and precious, but authenticity has quiet resonance that never fails to stir me.”

Elizabeth Gilbert Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Feeling

“There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself.”

Leo Tolstoy book Anna Karenina

Source: Anna Karenina

Life, Question, Universe, Forgetting

“How could you not want to draw breath one more day? How could your own life be such a cheap commodity? But then I started to understand: when your existence is hell, death must be heaven.”

Jodi Picoult book The Storyteller

Source: The Storyteller

Life, Death, Hell, Understanding

“Childhood feels so permanent, like it's the entire world, and then one day it's over and you're shoveling wet dirt onto your father's coffin, stunned at the impermanence of everything.”

Jonathan Tropper (1970) American writer

Source: This is Where I Leave You

World, Feeling, Childhood

“Give her a day, and then in return Momma gives you the other 364.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

“It is a good idea sometimes to think of the importance and dignity of our every-day duties. It keeps them from being so tiresome; besides, others are apt take us at our own valuation.”

Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957) American children's writer, diarist, and journalist

Idea, Thinking

“Are the days of winter sunshine just as sad for you, too? When it is misty, in the evenings, and I am out walking by myself, it seems to me that the rain is falling through my heart and causing it to crumble into ruins.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Sadness, Winter, Heart

“Rainy days should be spent at home with a cup of tea and a good book.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Variant: Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Source: The Calvin and Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book

Books, Home, Tea

“I was in the supermarket the other day, and I met a lady in the aisle where they keep the generic brands. Her name was 'woman.”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“A schedule defends from chaos and whim. A net for catching days.”

Annie Dillard (1945) American writer

Source: The Writing Life

“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940) American novelist and screenwriter

Source: Babylon Revisited and Other Stories

“One day in the country
Is worth a month in town.”

Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet

Summer; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Country

“There was nothing humane about humanity. At the end of the day, they were all
animals with only survival instincts.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Night Play

Animals

“You’re the only thing I’ve ever done right in my entire life and if anything ever happened to you, they’d have to dig two graves ‘cause I couldn’t live a single day without my baby beside me. (Cherise)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

Life, Baby

“These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

Feeling, Time

“It is a little-known fact about covert operations that you will spend a lot of time with people you can’t really trust. They may be traitors and liars. We call them assets or informants. But mostly, in those days, I called him Zach.”

Ally Carter book Only the Good Spy Young

Source: Only the Good Spy Young

People, Time

“I don't know the first thing about holding together a family, especially one that resembles an heirloom vase, shattered but glued back together for its beauty, and no one mentions that you can see the cracks as plain as day.”

Jodi Picoult book Songs of the Humpback Whale

Source: Songs of the Humpback Whale

Family, Beauty

“There is more than one kind of freedom, said Aunt Lydia. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.”

Margaret Atwood book The Handmaid's Tale

Source: The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), Chapter 5 (p. 24)
Source: The Handmaid's Tale

Freedom

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. The sun might shine, or the clouds might lour: but nothing could appear to me as it had done the day before.”

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851) English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer

Pain, Appearance, Change, Sun

“I love you every day. And now I will miss you every day.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love, For Mother, For Father

“And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents, like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet

St. 11.
The Day is Done (1845)

Music, Night

“One day's exposure to mountains is better than cartloads of books. See how willingly Nature poses herself upon photographers' plates. No earthly chemicals are so sensitive as those of the human soul.”

John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author

1872(?), page 95
John of the Mountains, 1938

Books, Soul, Mountain, Nature

“If I have to scour the entire earth, I'll hunt her down. I will no' falter. One day I will bring my female back to my home - back to my bed… She was born to be found by me.
-Garreth MacRieve, King of all Lykae”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Pleasure of a Dark Prince

Home

“Trapped for days, years, centuries maybe. Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Variant: Dead, but not allowed to die. Alive, but as good as dead.
Source: Mockingjay

Dead

“If one day, a bhailach… ye should meet a verra large mouse named Michael-ye'll tell him your grandsire sends his regards.”

Diana Gabaldon book A Breath of Snow and Ashes

Source: A Breath of Snow and Ashes

“Make every day your masterpiece.”

John Wooden (1910–2010) American basketball coach

Interview on Charlie Rose https://archive.org/details/WHUT_20100614_130000_Charlie_Rose (2000) <br class="br">Source: Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court

“He loved her, and he would love her until the day he was too old for loving--but he could not have her. So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book Winter Dreams

Source: Winter Dreams

Love, Pain, Happiness, Strong

“Only men you can count on these days are Ben and Jerry.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Men

“These bitter sorrows of childhood! when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless.”

George Eliot book The Mill on the Floss

Source: The Mill on the Floss (1860)

Hope, Summer, Childhood, Flying

“When the day shall come, that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'—ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.”

Diana Gabaldon book The Fiery Cross

Variant: When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time.
Source: The Fiery Cross

Love, Time, Parting

“Preach the gospel to yourself every day.”

Jerry Bridges (1929–2016) American writer

Source: The Discipline of Grace: God's Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness

“Good days, they come around the oddest corners.”

Colum McCann book Let the Great World Spin

Source: Let the Great World Spin

“I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Time

“Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it… And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Variant: You see, I tired of constant fear, so I made a decision. Every day when I wake I tell myself that it will be my last. If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
Source: Gregor the Overlander

Death, Feeling, Time, Joy