Quotes about day
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“The sun did not shine.
It was too wet to play.
So we sat in the house
All that cold, cold, wet day.”

Dr. Seuss book The Cat in the Hat

Source: The Cat in the Hat (1957)

Sun, Housing

“The only reason he can miss you is because he’s choosing, every day, not to be with you.”

Greg Behrendt (1963) American comedian

Source: He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys

“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.”

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867–1959) American architect (1867-1959)

Quoted in A Living Architecture : Frank Lloyd Wright and Taliesin Architects (2000) by John Rattenbury
Context: Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly. The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

Life, Beauty, Beauty

“Still clutching each other by the arm, they turned to watch the last stones plummet over the edge.

“I don't know how many times a day I can stand to watch you almost die,” Seregil gasped.

“Twice is my limit,” croaked Alec, sinking to his knees.”

Lynn Flewelling Luck in the Shadows

Source: Luck in the Shadows

Time

“Trust in tomorrow… Every day of your life, there's been a tomorrow. I promise you, there'll be a tomorrow.

—Alex Morales to Miranda Evans”

Susan Beth Pfeffer (1948) American writer

Source: This World We Live In

Life

“Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.”

Louise L. Hay (1926–2017) American writer

“There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.”

Gillian Flynn book Gone Girl

Source: Gone Girl

World, Drink

“Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.”

Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle

Source: I Capture the Castle

“People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

People

“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.”

Jane Austen book Sense and Sensibility

Source: Sense and Sensibility

People, Time, Relationship, Romantic

“The truth frightens people because it isn't stable. It shifts every day.”

Alice Hoffman (1952) Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer

Source: The Museum of Extraordinary Things

People, Truth

“But most days,
I wander around feeling invisible.
Like I'm a speck of dust
floating in the air
that can only be seen
when a shaft of light hits it.”

Sonya Sones book One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Source: One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies

Feeling, Light

“but back then, in those first days, I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.”

Junot Díaz book This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

Heart, Sad, Heartbreaking

“My books hold between their covers every story I've ever known and still remember, or have now forgotten, or may one day read; they fill the space around me with ancient and new voices.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Reading

“Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

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

For Men

“He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

Failure, Learning, Past, Future

“You want to play video games twenty-four hours a day?"
"Or watch. I just want to not be me. Whether it's sleeping or playing video games or riding my bike or studying. Giving my brain up. That's what's important.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Game, Sleep, Study

“Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

Life, Time, Speed

“The love in his eyes was so powerful, I needed to look away. Seth had an amazing grasp of the English language, but there were days when that skill was nothing compared to what he told me in his looks.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Succubus Dreams

Love

“I hoped I never saw him again. If I ever had to look at him again, if he looked at me the way he did that day, it would break me.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: It's Not Summer Without You

Hope, Way

“I hope that one day you will have the experience of doing something you do not understand for someone you love.”

Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Love, Hope, Understanding

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”

Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977) British comic actor and filmmaker

Widely attributed to Chaplin and a few others, research done for "A Day Without Laughter is a Day Wasted" at Quote Investigator http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/07/16/laughter-day/ indicate that such expressions date back to that of Nicolas Chamfort, published in "Historique, Politique et Litteraire, Maximes détachées extraites des manuscrits de Champfort" Mercure Français (18 July 1795), p. 351 http://books.google.com/books?id=N3tBAAAAcAAJ&q=%22pas+ri%22#v=snippet&q=%22pas%20ri%22&f=false: La plus perdue de toutes les journées est celle où l’on n’a pas ri. Translations of this into English have been found as early as one in "Laughing" in Flowers of Literature (1803) by F. Prevost and F. Blagdon :<br>: I admire the man who exclaimed, “I have lost a day!” because he had neglected to do any good in the course of it; but another has observed that “the most lost of all days, is that in which we have not laughed;” and, I must confess, that I feel myself greatly of his opinion. <br class="br">Misattributed

Laughter, Funny, Good Morning

“I cannot kill him, she muttered to herself. I cannot kill him. I promised Bianka I'd stop at ten bodies a day, and I've already surpassed my quota for the fifth day in a row. I cannot kill him.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Secret

“The entire time I'm burning in Hell, I'll regret each tear I made you weep. But if Hell were the price for twenty days with you, I'd condemn myself again and again.

- Cian MacKeltar”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Spell of the Highlander

Hell, Tear, Time

“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”

Nick Hornby book A Long Way Down

Source: A Long Way Down

“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand. Three more days to get through until I don't have to worry about life anymore.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Life, Feeling, Thinking

“He loved her, of course, but better than that, he chose her, day after day. Choice: that was the thing.”

Sherman Alexie (1966) Native American author and filmmaker

Source: The Toughest Indian in the World

Love

“My philosophy is pretty simple – any day nobody’s trying to kill me is a good day in my book.”

Karen Marie Moning book Darkfever

Source: Darkfever

Books

“A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.”

Sebastian Barry (1955) Irish author

Source: Days Without End: A Novel

Memory, Forgetting

“For the first forty days a child
is given dreams of previous lives. Journeys, winding paths,
a hundred small lessons
and then the past is erased.”

Michael Ondaatje (1943) Canadian writer

Source: Handwriting

Dreams, Past

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.”

John Grogan (1958) American journalist

Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

Home, Waiting

“Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.”

Martha Gellhorn (1908–1998) journalist from the United States

Life

“People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are.”

Max Barry (1973) Australian writer

Source: Lexicon

People

“He'd woken up the next day in the city hospital with Magnus Bane staring down at him with an odd expression--it could have been deep concern or merely curiosity, it was hard to tell with Magnus.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Glass

Source: City of Glass

“To live without you, only that would be torture."
"A day alone, only that would be death.”

Charles Addams (1912–1988) Cartoonist

Death

“One day spent with someone you love can change everything.”

Mitch Albom For One More Day

Source: For One More Day

Love, Change

“I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.”

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

Source: Seriously... I'm Kidding

Learning

“Got to say, dying would really wreck my best day. Been there, done that, and now that I think about it, Artemis forgot to give me the t-shirt.”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Retribution

Thinking

“The saddest day in the world will be the one when she stops pretending.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

World

“That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Dreams

“I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.”

Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

Time

“I remember, no matter how impossible it seemed that any given day would end, it always did. This one would, too.”

Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas

“We wake up one day and find we have lost our dreams in order to protect our days.”

Kent Nerburn (1946) Author

Dreams

“Bite your lips, little brother… Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now… Wait. Clench your teeth and wait…”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Hate, Waiting, Cry, Anger

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

Gabriel García Márquez (1927–2014) Colombian writer

Home

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Pain, Family, Flowers, Time

“George goes to sleep at a bank from ten to four each day, except Saturdays, when they wake him up and put him outside at two.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Sleep

“The first day of the rest of my life, and I’m not sure I want to
be here. I know I should be thanking somebody for this, but I really
don’t feel like it. Instead, I wish they hadn’t bothered.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Life, Feeling

“He’d never get over her. He knew that without hesitation or doubt. He loved her. As deeply as it was possible to love another person. And God, he wanted her. Every day. In hit life. As much a part of him as he would be of her.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Source: Rush

Love, Life, God, Parting

“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

Debbie Macomber (1948) American writer

Source: One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity

Perfection

“I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.”

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

Source: The Complete Works of O. Henry

People, Music, Painting, Forgetting

“The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them… Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.”

Michel De Montaigne (1533–1592) (1533-1592) French-Occitan author, humanistic philosopher, statesman

Book I, Ch. 20
Attributed

Life, Dependency

“Cleverness is not wisdom. And not to think mortal thoughts is to see few days.”

Euripidés The Bacchae

Bacchæ l. 395
Source: The Bacchae

Wisdom, Thinking

“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.”

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

1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Self-Reliance
Context: These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence. Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less. Its nature is satisfied, and it satisfies nature, in all moments alike. But man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time.
This should be plain enough. Yet see what strong intellects dare not yet hear God himself, unless he speak the phraseology of I know not what David, or Jeremiah, or Paul. We shall not always set so great a price on a few texts, on a few lives. We are like children who repeat by rote the sentences of grandames and tutors, and, as they grow older, of the men of talents and character they chance to see, —painfully recollecting the exact words they spoke; afterwards, when they come into the point of view which those had who uttered these sayings, they understand them, and are willing to let the words go; for, at any time, they can use words as good when occasion comes. If we live truly, we shall see truly. It is as easy for the strong man to be strong, as it is for the weak to be weak. When we have new perception, we shall gladly disburden the memory of its hoarded treasures as old rubbish. When a man lives with God, his voice shall be as sweet as the murmur of the brook and the rustle of the corn.

God, Time, Perfection

“She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

World, Imagination, Time, Waiting

“Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Travel, Time

“I knew right then and there nothing was ever going to change. It wouldn't matter if I was tall or short or fat or thin or absent every day. I was a loser from birth.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead

Birth, Change

“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”

Ted Dekker book Kiss

Source: Kiss

Pain, Problem, Forgetting

“Of course in the present day […] the world of work begins to become — threatens to become — our only world, to the exclusion of all else. The demands of the working world grow ever more total, grasping ever more completely the whole of human existence.”

Josef Pieper (1904–1997) German philosopher

Source: Leisure, the Basis of Culture (1948), The Philosophical Act, pp. 64–65
Source: Leisure: The Basis Of Culture

World

“Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized… That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.”

Jonathan Maberry book Dust & Decay

Source: Dust & Decay

Life, Heart

“Just like the good old days: marching together into the unknown, searching for missing magical weapons and risking painful death. I’d missed my buddies!”

Rick Riordan book The Hammer of Thor

Source: The Hammer of Thor

Death, Pain, Search

“…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“Your time's running out, Valkyrie." Fegley gave another wallop before he squeaked off.

Regin narrowed her eyes, watching him till he was out of sight. "One day I'm going to make that little piggy cry all the way home.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Way, Home, Time, Cry

“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”

Haruki Murakami book Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage

Coffee, Night

“The most important single thing that any Latter-day Saint ever does in this world is to marry the right person, in the right place, by the right authority.”

Bruce R. McConkie (1915–1985) American Mormon leader

World, Personality

“I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into the face of his wife. These are not sins of omission but signs of pre-occuopation.”

Michael Ondaatje book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Forgetting

“To me, every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

Perfection, Night

“The miracle is this: that you will rise in the morning and be able to see again the startling beauty of the day.”

William Kent Krueger book Ordinary Grace

Source: Ordinary Grace

Beauty

“Congratulations!
Today is your day.
You're off to Great Places!
You're off and away!”

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

Source: Oh, The Places You'll Go!

Graduation

“Those miserable women who blame the men who let them down for their misery and isolation enact every day the initial mistake of sacrificing their personal responsibility for themselves.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

Women, Men, Personality

“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.”

Bernard Cornwell book Death of Kings

Source: Death of Kings

“Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Death, Flowers

“How odd to watch a mortal kindle / Then to dwindle day by day / Knowing their bright souls are tinder / And the wind will have its way”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Way, Soul

“Fish," he said, "I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

Love, Fish, Dead

“One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals will be palpable. We shall then have discovered our souls and become worthier of sharing this planet with them.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

Soul, Universe, Animals

“There was nothing separate about her days. Like drops on the window-pane, they ran together and trickled away.”

Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

“Do days exist without calendars? Does time pass when there are no human hands left to wind the clocks?”

Howard Koch (1901–1995) American screenwriter

Source: War Of The Worlds : The Invasion From Mars

Time

“The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.”

Nadine Gordimer (1923–2014) South african Nobel-winning writer

Source: Conversations With Nadine Gordimer

Solitude, Madness

“I felt lethal, on the verge of frenzy. My nightly bloodlust overflowed into my days and I had to leave the city. My mask of sanity was a victim of impending slippage. This was the bone season for me and I needed a vacation.”

Bret Easton Ellis book American Psycho

Source: American Psycho

Season

“If you start the day reading the obituaries, you live your day a little differently.”

David Levithan book Love Is the Higher Law

Source: Love Is the Higher Law

Reading

“A poem by Margot Bickel

A little peace
within the last hours of the almost bygone day
a little silence
between the days
so that the nascent yesterday does not get in the past
and tomorrow is lived for today”

Margot Bickel (1958) German poet

Peace, Silence, Past

“I been with strangers all day and they treated me like family. I come in here to family and you treat me like a stranger.”

August Wilson The Piano Lesson

Source: The Piano Lesson

Family

“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other”

Anne Brontë book The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XXII : Traits of Friendship; Arthur to Helen
Context: I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and mad the other; besides, I like to enjoy my life at all sides and ends, which cannot be done by one that suffers himself to be the slave of a single propensity.

Drink, Madness