Quotes about day
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“I have wanted to do this," he said, "every moment of every hour of every day that I have been with you since the day I met you. but you know that. Youknow. Don't you?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

“You could wear the same outfit every single day and no guy - who isn't gay - will notice.”

Maureen Johnson (1973) writer from the USA

Source: Suite Scarlett

Guy

“You wouldn't think you could kill an ocean, would you? But we'll do it one day. That's how negligent we are.”

Ian Rankin book Blood Hunt

Source: Blood Hunt

Thinking

“The snow was too light to stay, the ground too warm to keep it. And the strange spring snow fell only in that golden moment of dawn, the turning of the page between night and day.”

Shannon Hale (1974) American fantasy novelist

Source: Palace of Stone

Spring, Light, Night

“You'd be surprised how many people violate this simple principle every day of their lives and try to fit square pegs into round holes, ignoring the clear reality that Things Are As They Are.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

People, Reality

“When the music is over, she keeps her head down till she finds her seat again, and I wonder how many times each day she dies a little.”

Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty

Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty

Music, Time

“What is going to happen in the course of my day that will be an improvement over lying on something very soft, underneath something very warm, wearing only underwear, doing absolutely nothing, all by myself?”

Chuck Klosterman book Downtown Owl

Source: Downtown Owl

Lying

“life is crap but, every day is an experience”

Sarah Waters The Night Watch

Source: The Night Watch

Life

“Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.”

Pat Conroy (1945–2016) American novelist

Source: My Reading Life

Books, Feeling, Literature, Parting

“This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”

William Styron book Sophie's Choice

Last lines
Source: Sophie's Choice (1979)

“You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men (2005)
Context: You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday dont count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else. You might think you could run away and change your name and I dont know what all. Start over. And then one mornin you wake up and look at the ceilin and guess who's layin there?

Life, Thinking

“The days hardened with cold and boredom like last year's loaves of bread. One began to cut them with blunt knives without appetite, with a lazy indifference.”

Bruno Schulz book The Street of Crocodiles

Source: The Street of Crocodiles

Indifference

“Every new event—everything I did for the rest of my life—would only separate us more and more: days she was no longer a part of, an ever-growing distance between us. Every single day for the rest of my life, she would only be further away.”

Donna Tartt book The Goldfinch

Source: The Goldfinch

Life, Parting

“Maybe marriage, like life, isn't only about the big moments, whether they be good or bad. Maybe it's all the small things—like being guided slowly forward, surely, day after day—that stretches out to strengthen even the most tenuous bond.”

Sarah Dessen book This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

Life, Marriage

“This isn't a game for me. I love you, Ivy, and one day you're going to believe me.”

Elizabeth Chandler (1954) writer

Variant: This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me.

- Tristan Carruthers
Source: Kissed by an Angel

Love, Game

“If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture.”

Banksy pseudonymous England-based graffiti artist, political activist, and painter

School, Way, Past

“Even in winter, the cold isn't always bitter, and not every day is cruel.”

Jim Butcher book Changes

Source: Changes

Winter

“An apple a day, if well aimed, keeps the doctor away.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.”

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) German philosopher

Source: Basic Writings: Martin Heidegger

World, Star, Thinking

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Love, People

“What looks like politics, and imagines itself to be political, will one day unmask itself as a religious movement.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Imagination

“At the end of a miserable day, instead of grieving my virtual nothing, I can always look at my loaded wastepaper basket and tell myself that if I failed, at least I took a few trees down with me.”

David Sedaris book Me Talk Pretty One Day

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

Tree

“God, he was probably too young to be this old, but life had a way of being about experience, rather than calendar days.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover at Last

Life, God, Way

“One day if I do go to heaven… I'll look around and say, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.”

Herb Caen (1916–1997) American newspaper columnist

USA Today, February 16, 2001. "Words from the heart', page D4 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/USAToday/access/68719547.html?dids=68719547:68719547&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Feb+16%2C+2001&author=&pub=USA+TODAY&desc=Words+from+the+heart&pqatl=google Attributed Context: If I do go to heaven, I'm going to do what every San Franciscan does who goes to heaven. He looks around and says, 'It ain't bad, but it ain't San Francisco.

“We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad. You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day, and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.”

Eric Jerome Dickey (1961) American author

Source: Thieves' Paradise

“Oh, for heaven's sake, she thought with droll exasperation, this certainly explains a lot. It's no wonder I haven't been able to keep my hands off the blasted man since the day I met him. He's an artifact! A Celtic one at that!”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: The Dark Highlander

“I lost a world the other day. Has anybody found? You'll know it by the rows of stars around it's forehead bound. A rich man might not notice it; yet to my frugal eye of more esteem than ducats. Oh! Find it, sir, for me!”

Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) American poet

Source: Final Harvest: Emily Dickinson's Poems

World, Star

“I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle, something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all some day.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Variant: I want to do something splendid... something heroic or wonderful that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it and mean to astonish you all someday.
Source: Little Women

Dead

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”

Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986) Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, and a key figure in Spanish language literature

Love, Happiness

“So how do you know him? (Shahara)
I knocked on his door one day and said, ‘Hi, I’m here to rob you. Hope you don’t mind. Oh, and by the way, will you be my friend?’ (Syn)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Born of Fire

Hope, Way

“The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Time, Sun

“Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: The Sweetest Thing

Life, Quotes

“Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

Kiss, Heart

“The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows - a wall against the wind.”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

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

Life, Feeling, Success, Future

“Piper gave Lit a friendly sorry-about-that smile. Even with her hair messed up and wearing two-day-old clothes, she looked extremely cute, and Jason felt a little jealous she was giving Lit that smile.”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Smile, Clothes

“I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451

World

“Is the life you seek to take worth the one you could one day create? (Savitar)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dark Side of the Moon

Life

“I think when you’re young you should be a lot with yourself and your sufferings. Then one day you get out where the sun shines and the rain rains and the snow snows and it all comes together.”

Diana Vreeland (1903–1989) American magazine editor

Thinking, Suffering, Sun

“People always remember the worst day of their lifes. It becomes a part of them forever.”

James Patterson book Sundays at Tiffany's

Source: Sundays at Tiffany's

Life, People, Parting

“An early morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.”

Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist

April 20, 1840
Journals (1838-1859)
Source: https://www.walden.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Chapter4.pdf#page=13

Good Morning

“It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.”

Markus Zusak book Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Variant: Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or to forget? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives?
Source: Fighting Ruben Wolfe

Time, Forgetting

“You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, Heart

“Stop and consider! life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

" Sleep and Poetry http://www.bartleby.com/126/31.html", st. 5 Poems (1817) Source: The Complete Poems

Life, Way, Tree

“It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Love

“Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.”

Benjamin Hoff book The Tao of Pooh

Source: The Tao of Pooh

People, Silence, Water, Loneliness

“I've had the sort of day that would make St. Francis of Assisi kick babies.”

Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

Baby

“Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her… he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Scandal in Spring

Secret, Smile, Soul, Freedom

“The way a crow
Shook down on me
The dust of snow
From a hemlock treeHas given my heart
A change of mood
And saved some part
Of a day I had rued.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

" Dust of Snow http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=173526" (1923) General sources

Way, Mood, Change, Heart

“No use dwelling on the past. What you do tomorrow and the next day and the day after that is what matters.”

Kieran Scott (1974) American writer

Source: She's So Dead to Us

Past

“Someone else has to be disseminating it. (Mark)
Dis-a what? (Nick)
Disseminating. It means distributing it. (Mark)
Then why didn’t you say that? (Nick)
Remind me to get him a word-of-the-day calendar. (Mark)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Infinity

“Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety…. One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Joy

“You can go through your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Variant: You can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.
Source: For One More Day

Life

“Our emotions
Are only “incidents”
In the effort to keep day and night together.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Effort, Night

“This place is just too frickin precious," the cop said, eyeing a guy dressed in a hot pink leisure suit with makeup to match. "Give me rednecks and home-grown beer any day of the week over this X-culture bullshit.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Awakened

Guy, Home, Beer

“Don't let me hear you say life's taking you nowhere, angel
Come get up my baby.
Look at that sky, life's begun
Nights are warm and the days are young
Come get up my baby.”

David Bowie (1947–2016) British musician, actor, record producer and arranger

Golden Years
Song lyrics, Station to Station (1976)

Life, Angels, Baby, Night

“The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), History
Context: The difference between men is in their principle of association. Some men classify objects by color and size and other accidents of appearance; others by intrinsic likeness, or by the relation of cause and effect. The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. For the eye is fastened on the life, and slights the circumstance. Every chemical substance, every plant, every animal in its growth, teaches the unity of cause, the variety of appearance.

Men

“I keep thinking Naruto… That one of these days your going to finally grow up!”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

Thinking

“After the pain of this disappointment her heart once more stood empty, and the succession of identical days began again.”

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary

Source: Madame Bovary

Pain, Disappointment, Success, Heart