Quotes about day
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“And [he] sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day
and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him
and it was still hot”

Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are

Source: Where the Wild Things Are

Waiting, Night

“Perhaps I’ve been rushing my whole entire life, jumping into things headfirst without thinking them through. Running through the days without noticing the minutes.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Life, Thinking

“It was a day as different from other days as dogs are from cats and both of them from chrysanthemums or tidal waves or scarlet fever.”

John Steinbeck book The Winter of Our Discontent

Source: The Winter of Our Discontent

Dogs, Cats

“I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.”

Arthur Conan Doyle book A Study in Scarlet

Source: A Study in Scarlet

Thinking, Time

“‎A day in which I don't write leaves a taste of ashes.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

“It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.”

Lionel Shriver book We Need to Talk About Kevin

Source: We Need to Talk About Kevin

“Love changes everything. Days are longer, words mean more. Love changes everything. Pain is deeper than before. Love can turn your world around, and that world will last forever.”

Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948) British composer

Love, Pain, World, Change

“How was your day?" Morelli asked me. "Oh, you know, the usual. Stole a truck. Blew up a building, and brought seven monkeys home with me.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

Home

“Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen”

Louis L'Amour (1908–1988) Novelist, short story writer

Men

“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.”

Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964) American novelist, short story writer

Source: Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

Life, Childhood

“But in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up to it. Hour after trivial hour, day after day, year after year, and then the sudden moment: the knife stab, the shell burst, the plummet of the car from a bridge.”

Margaret Atwood book The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

Life, Cars

“Ohh, how clever," Aden said and clapped. "A death threat. You know what's funny? That's not even my first of the day.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: Intertwined

Death

“Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were
all the same, that were do-overs?”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Between the Lines

Life, Imagination

“One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. Like he was my particular person.”

E. Lockhart book We Were Liars

Source: We Were Liars

Books, Lying, Personality

“Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.”

Thornton Wilder (1897–1975) American playwright and novelist

Reading

“A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place on the Jellicoe Road.”

Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road

Source: On the Jellicoe Road

Home

“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune”

William Faulkner book The Sound and the Fury

Source: The Sound and the Fury (1929)

Thinking, Time

“Maybe this are my glory days, and I'm not even realizing it…”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Variant: Maybe these are my glory days, and I'm not ever realizing it because they involve a ball.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

“Spending time with you just feels… right, somehow. Easy, like the way it's supposed to be. Like it is with my parents. They're just comfortable together, and I remember growing up thinking that one day I wanted to have that, too.”

Nicholas Sparks book Dear John

Source: Dear John

Way, Feeling, Thinking, Parent

“On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.”

Dean Koontz (1945) American author

Source: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

“Every day's a negotiation and sometimes it's done with guns.”

Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film

“My Sorrow, when she’s here with me,
Thinks these dark days of autumn rain
Are beautiful as days can be;
She loves the bare, the withered tree;
She walks the sodden pasture lane.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

1910s, My November Guest (1915)

Love, Beauty, Autumn, Thinking

“By day the banished sun circles the earth like a grieving mother with a lamp.”

Cormac McCarthy book The Road

Source: The Road

Sun, For Mother

“You've influenced the world not because you wanted to hug it and cuddle it and call it sweet thing, but because one day you wanted to beat the crap out of somebody but you didn't. You made a painting instead.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

World, Painting

“I like the cover," he said. "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Intelligence, Help

“If I get a new idea today—or any day—I won't run from it. I won't trash it. If it's something I really want to do—I'll do it.”

Jerry Spinelli (1941) American children's writer

Source: Today I Will: A Year of Quotes, Notes, and Promises to Myself

Idea

“Kyo Sohma: angrily pointing at Yuki Just like I'll beat you one of these days
Yuki: looking bored Wait wait I think I've heard this one before”

Natsuki Takaya (1973) Manga artist

Thinking, Waiting

“Frank imitated the voice of Vitellius: 'They're wimps! Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Time

“I will not know that day has come because I will not stop trying.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”

Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Source: Fever Pitch

“I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day, on the surface of intention, word becoming act.
We will breathe into each other the high mountain tales, where the snows come from, where the waters begin.”
-In the yellow time of pollen”

Luke Davies (1962) Australian writer

Mountain, Water, Time

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

Source: See A Grown Man Cry/Now Watch Him Die

Parting, Personality

“Suddenly the day was gone,
night came out from under each tree and spread.”

Ray Bradbury book The Halloween Tree

Source: The Halloween Tree

Tree, Night

“All of us have to be prevaricators, hypocrites, and liars every day of our lives; otherwise the social structure would fall into pieces the first day. We must act in one another's presence just as we must wear clothes. It is for the best”

O. Henry (1862–1910) American short story writer

Clothes

“Gimme hate, Lord,” he whimpered. “I’ll take hate any day. But don’t give me love. I can’t take no more love, Lord. I can’t carry it… It’s too heavy. Jesus, you know, you know all about it. Ain’t it heavy? Jesus? Ain’t love heavy?”

Toni Morrison book Song of Solomon

Source: Song of Solomon

Love, Hate

“Got something new, maybe it'll work before the end of the day if that's ok.”

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

“We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Source: The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber

Way

“Evening of a hot day started the little wind to moving among the leaves. The shade climbed up the hills toward the top. On the sand banks the rabbits sat as quietly as little gray, sculptured stones.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

“If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way… Run, and cling to life, and then some day, when you have the same eyes as I do, come before me”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, Hate, Way

“It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Chance, Time

“I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

Dreams

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day, and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Time

“As Nietzsche said, ‘that which doesn’t kill you– ’(Alexion)
Will only require brief hospitalization. And if you’re a Dark-Hunter, just a good day’s sleep. (Danger)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Sins of the Night

Sleep

“Climb the day, Drop your dreams, Possess the day.”

Gail Carson Levine Fairest

Source: Fairest

Dreams

“In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Travel, Problem

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”

John Steinbeck (1902–1968) American writer

World, Color, Nature, Change

“She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not ‘til the day he dies. Not even then.”

Daniel Handler book The Basic Eight

Source: The Basic Eight

Love, Boy

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

Margaret George book The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Source: The Memoirs of Cleopatra

Nature, Learning, Perfection, Night

“It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.”

Jeffrey Eugenides book Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

Feeling, Water

“We have shared out, like thieves, the amazing treasures of days and nights.”

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

Night

“Day
Play
We play all day.
Night
Fight
We fight all night.”

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

Source: Hop On Pop

Fight, Night

“Howl said to Sophie, "I've been wondering all along if you would turn out to be that lovely girl I met on May Day. Why were you scared then?”

Diana Wynne Jones book Howl's Moving Castle

Source: Howl's Moving Castle

Love, Girl

“Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become reality.”

Earl Nightingale (1921–1989) American motivational speaker

Reality

“She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.”

Ann Brashares book Sisterhood Everlasting

Source: Sisterhood Everlasting

Love, Life

“Hoping to live days of greater happiness, I forget that days of less happiness are passing by.”

Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979) American poet

Happiness, Hope, Forgetting

“… and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again.”

Louisa May Alcott book Little Women

Source: Little Women

Love, World

“Grief reconfigures time, its length, its texture, its function: one day means no more than the next, so why have they been picked out and given separate names?”

Julian Barnes (1946) English writer

Source: Levels of Life

Time

“You have bewitched me body and soul, and I love, I love, I love you. And wish from this day forth never to be parted from you.”

Jane Austen (1775–1817) English novelist

Love, Soul, Parting, For Him

“Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to…”

Shaun Tan book The Red Tree

Source: The Red Tree

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

Anthony Capella (1962) British writer

Source: The Various Flavours Of Coffee

Love, Pleasure, Coffee

“Good days and long nights to ya, sai.”

Stephen King book Wizard and Glass

Variant: Long days and pleasant nights.
Source: Wizard and Glass

Night

“My page was too white
My ink was too thin
The day wouldn't write
What the night pencilled in”

Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing

Source: Book of Longing

Night

“May you live all the days of your life.”

Jonathan Swift (1667–1745) Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet

Polite Conversation (1738), Dialogue 2

Life, Life, Cute, Anniversary

“I’m asking the questions tonight.” One day I was going to write a book: How to Dictate to a Dictator
and Evade an Evader, subtitled How to Handle Jericho Barrons.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Bloodfever

Books, Question

“I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness - until one day the ability to feel is forced into them. And I say "Look! I have no hands!" But the people all around me say: "What are hands?”

Frank Herbert book Dune

Source: Dune

People, Feeling, Personality

“I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle.. the nights i can't remember.. the mornings i slept thru.. all the time spent running from myself.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Time, Night

“No one would have ever guessed that seven of the world's most talented teenagers were coming to the Henley that day for an entirely different sort of lesson.”

Ally Carter book Heist Society

Source: Heist Society

World

“I look hot and, most of all, skinny. I love the day after throwing up. I felt like a feather.”

Chelsea Handler (1975) American comedian, actress, author and talk show host

Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands

Love

“I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others -- The only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Everything Is Illuminated

Source: Everything Is Illuminated

Sadness, Fools, Sad

“…but all day long I would be training myself to think, to understand, to criticize, to know myself; I was seeking for the absolute truth: this preoccupation did not exactly encourage polite conversation.”

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist

Source: Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Truth, Understanding, Thinking, Training

“Back in my day, we died all the time, and we liked it!”

Rick Riordan book The Son of Neptune

Source: The Son of Neptune

Time

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test yout limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Pain, Courage

“The days and nights come apart. I feel them corroding at the seams.”

Markus Zusak (1975) Australian author

Source: I Am the Messenger

Feeling, Night

“Your name is Lily Whitney. You are the woman I want at my side night and day. I want you to be the mother of my children someday. I want you for my lover. I want you for the person I turn to when the world gets to be too much.”

Christine Feehan book Shadow Game

Source: Shadow Game

Children, World, Lovers, Personality

“I think piracy is a bit like drinking. You want to stay out all night doing it, you pay the price the next day.”

Scott Lynch book Red Seas Under Red Skies

Source: Red Seas Under Red Skies

Drink, Thinking, Night

“The days were heavy and sticky. All identical, one the same as the other. Soon they would even get rid of their one remaining distinction, the shell of their names: Monday, Tuesday, Thursday.”

Ismail Kadare book Chronicle in Stone

Source: Chronicle in Stone

“People of limited intelligence are fond of talking about "these days," imagining that they have discovered and appraised the peculiarities of "these days" and that human nature changes with the times.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

People, Imagination, Intelligence, Nature

“Do you think that I count the days? There is only one day left, always starting over: it is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.”

Jean Paul Sartre book The Devil and the Good Lord

Act 10, sc. 2
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)

Thinking

“Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

Isobelle Carmody book Obernewtyn

Source: Obernewtyn

People, Waiting

“Each day the storm clouds were opening like great purple flowers and pouring out their dark thunder. Each nightfall, the storm was laid down on their houses like a burden the day had carried.”

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) American author

Source: The Wide Net and Other Stories

Flowers, Housing

“For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him.”

Emma Donoghue (1969) Irish novelist, playwright, short-story writer and historian

Source: Slammerkin

People, Books, Reading

“You can't blame anyone else,…, no one but yourself. You have to make your own choices and live every agonizing day with the consequences of those choices.”

Max Brooks book World War Z

Source: World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War

“You ever think about this? Every year you live, you pass the anniversary of your death. Now you don't know what day it is, of course.”

Billie Letts book Where the Heart Is

Source: Where the Heart Is

Death, Thinking

“Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes a day. Wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit.”

Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el escritor del jarron azul

The Roycraft Dictionary and Book of Epigrams (1923)
Source: The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days

Wisdom, Fools, Deep

“Back in Khufu's day I knew a magician who parted the Nile just so he could climb to the bottom and retrieve a girl's necklace. Then there was that Israelite fellow, Mickey."
"Moses?"
"Yeah, him.”

Rick Riordan book The Throne of Fire

Source: The Throne of Fire

Girl, Parting

“One step at a time, one day at a time, just today, just this day to get through.”

Linda Sue Park (1960) American author of young adult fiction

Source: A Long Walk to Water: Based on a True Story

Time

“I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

“The figure in the doorway ducked; the brick hit the wall, and Luke straightened up and looked at her curiously. I hope when we're married, that's not the way you greet me every day when I come home, he said.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

Hope, Way, Home

“Each night I lie and dream about the one
Who kissed me and awakened my desire
I spent a single hour with him alone
And since that hour, my days are layed with fire.”

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

Source: Secret Circle Booklet

Lie, Dreams, Kiss, Night

“That day I carried the dream around like a full glass of water, moving gracefully so I would not lose any of it.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You

Dreams, Water

“But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Wilson Lewis, Chapter 4, p. 63
Source: 2000s, The Wedding (2003)

Love, Understanding

“You would think such a day would tremble to begin…”

Thomas Harris book Hannibal

Source: Hannibal

Thinking

“I just went to work for a vampire, was scared by a spider, and got knocked down by a tanning bomb. And that’s just my day, not my week.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Fade Out

“I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.”

Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity

Variants: I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots. I fear the day when technology overlaps our humanity. It will be then that the world will have permanent ensuing generations of idiots. 1995 film Powder includes a similar quotation attributed to Einstein: It’s become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity. Although it is a popular quote on the internet, there is no substantial evidence that Einstein actually said that. It does not appear in "The Ultimate Quotable Einstein" from Princeton University Press nor in any reliable source. " Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/03/19/tech-surpass/" concluded that it probably emerged as a meme on the internet as late as 2012. Misattributed

World, Fear

“Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Wedding

Source: The Wedding

Love, For Wife

“No. I’m not hot, and I don’t want to do the Squeaky Dance.” Simon sighed. This day was full of disappointments.”

Anne Bishop book Marked in Flesh

Source: Marked in Flesh

Disappointment, Dance