Quotes about day
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“Every day that you don't practice is a day you're getting worse.”

Amy Chua book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Source: Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Heart of the Matter

Anger

“At least the statue didn’t rumble, “DIE, UNBELIEVERS!” and zap the mortals to dust. Reyna had once dealt with a statue of the goddess Diana like that. It hadn’t been her most relaxing day.”

Rick Riordan book The Blood of Olympus

Source: The Blood of Olympus

“An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

Parent, For Parents

“Each day a day goes by.”

Carlo Goldoni (1707–1794) Italian playwright and librettist

“One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends.”

Charlie Huston Already Dead

Joe Pitt Casebooks
Source: Already Dead, Character: Joe Pitt (narration)

Love

“You kill me, Rose," he said melodramatically. "Every day is agony without you. Empty. Alone. I pine for you, wondering if you're even still alive.”

Richelle Mead Blood Promise

Source: Blood Promise

“I love you. I am who I am because of you. You are every reason, every hope, and every dream I've ever had, and no matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Love, Life, Dreams, Hope

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”

José Martí (1853–1895) Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader

"I dream awake" ["Ismaelillo"]
As quoted in Great Hispanic-Americans (2005) by Nicolás Kanellos, Robert Rodriguez and Tamra Orr, p. 72

Dreams, Night

“I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news”

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

Men, Money, World, Mountain

“Can you get it? (Jaden)
If I swear myself to eternal slavery to Artemis. Yes. (Acheron)
I’d rather trade places with Prometheus and have my innards ripped out every day. (Jaden)
So would I. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Acheron

“I am tired of tears and laughter,
And men that laugh and weep
Of what may come hereafter
For men that sow to reap:
I am weary of days and hours,
Blown buds of barren flowers,
Desires and dreams and powers
And everything but sleep.”

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic

Men, Dreams, Flowers, Tear

“Twenty years of schoolin'
And they put you on the day shift”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), Subterranean Homesick Blues

“Sometimes I think I'll give up trying, and just go completely Russian and sit on a stove and moan all day.”

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

Thinking

“Twice we stood beside each other at the altar, Rosie. Twice. And twice
we got it wrong. I needed you to be there for my wedding day but I was too
stupid to see that I needed you to be the reason for my wedding day. But we
got it all wrong.”

Cecelia Ahern book Love, Rosie

Source: Love, Rosie

Stupidity, Wedding

“There is nothing like love. You should try it.”

Thibault shrugged. “Maybe one day.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One

Source: The Lucky One

Love

“I am going to keep my mind (well, what's left of it) occupied by doing (and I never thought the day would come when I would say this) my homework.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

“You have to choose the best, every day, without compromise… guided by your own virtue and highest ambition”

Philippa Gregory (1954) English novelist

“A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again.”

Stephen King book Bag of Bones

Source: Bag of Bones

Personality

“Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

Sex, Drink

“You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.”

Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914) American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist

Epigrams

Time

“Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.”

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861) English poet, author

“I hear they feed you in Sing Sing,” Evie muttered. “Three squares a day.”

“Evangeline,” Will said with a sigh. “Charity begins at home.”

“So does mental illness.”

Libba Bray book The Diviners

Source: The Diviners

Home, Singing

“The day-to-day exhausted me!”

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770–1827) German Romantic composer

to Karl von Baden, August 23, 1823

“We knew exactly what we wanted in each other. And even so, it ended. One day it stopped, as if the film simply slipped off the reel.”

Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance

Source: Dance Dance Dance

“Quiet Pride:
There has never been a day when I have not been proud of you, I said to my daughter, though some days I'm louder about other stuff so it's easy to miss that.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Daughters

“It's not like a stab wound you can protect me from. It's like a million little paper cuts every day.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

“Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the world doesn't go to hell if you take a day off.”

Jeffrey Pfeffer (1946) American academic

People, World, Hell, Question

“The best day of my life happened when I was five and almost died at Disney World. I'm sixteen now, so you can imagine that's left me with quite a few days of major suckage.”

Libba Bray Going Bovine

Source: Going Bovine

Life, World, Imagination

“The day before me is fraught with God knows what horrors.”

John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

God

“How was it possible to wake up every day and be recognizable to another when so often one was barely recognizable to oneself?”

Nicole Krauss book Man Walks Into a Room

Source: Man Walks Into a Room

“The world will know and understand me someday. But if that day does not arrive, it does not greatly matter. I shall have opened the way for other women.”

George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin

Women, World, Way, Understanding

“May you experience each day as a sacred gift woven around the heart of wonder.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher

Source: Eternal Echoes: Celtic Reflections on Our Yearning to Belong

Heart

“No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich.”

Malcolm Gladwell (1963) journalist and science writer

Source: Outliers: The Story of Success

Family

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Last Stand of Dead Men

Books, Thinking, Reading

“Once in a while our school has half days, and the teachers spend the afternoon 'in service,' which I think must be a group therapy for having to deal with us.”

Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist

Source: Bruiser

School, Thinking, Teachers

“Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.”

Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher

Life, Back To Work

“Neither you nor I can know your destiny. You may never know it! Destiny isn't always like a party at the end of the evening. Sometimes it's nothing more than struggling through life from day to day.”

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

Life

“Ah! when will this long weary day have end,
And lende me leave to come unto my love?

- Epithalamion”

Edmund Spenser (1552–1599) English poet

Source: Amoretti and Epithalamion

Love

“Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Time

“Life was short, no matter how many days you were granted. And people were precious, each and every one, no matter how many you were lucky enough to have in your life. And love… love was worth dying for.
Worth living for, too. -Tohrment”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Reborn

Love, Life, People

“This is days and days and months and years and all the minutes in between, just you me.”

Paullina Simons book The Summer Garden

Source: The Summer Garden

“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”

Jon Krakauer (1954) American outdoors writer and journalist

Life, Change, Sun, Joy

“A man will find a single coin in the mud and talk about it for days, but when his inheritance comes and is accounted one percent less than he expected, then he will declare himself cheated.”

Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance

Source: Words of Radiance

Cheating

“It was the promise of maybe, maybe one day.”

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

Source: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Hope

“I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.”

Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer

Source: Beauty Queens

Hate

“wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg”

Ernest Hemingway book The Sun Also Rises

Source: The Sun Also Rises

God, Question

“On the sixth day God saw He couldn't do it all, so He created ENGINEERS”

Lois McMaster Bujold book Falling Free

Source: Falling Free

God

“Some days simply lay on you like stones. Some were fickle as cats, sliding away when you needed comfort, then coming back later when you didn’t want them, jostling at you, stealing your breath.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Cats

“To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her,
or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love”

Jeanette Winterson (1959) English writer

Source: Powerbook

Love

“I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.”

Keith Richards (1943) British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones

People

“Even bloody and bruised, he had an odd sort of swagger, as if he crash-landed in giant air ships every day.”

Scott Westerfeld (1963) American science fiction writer

“Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to min'?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And days o' auld lang syne?”

Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist

Auld Lang Syne, st. 1 (1788)

“A day in which you learn something isn't a complete loss.”

David Eddings book Pawn of Prophecy

Source: Pawn of Prophecy

Learning, Loss

“This is a great idea,” said Trey. “You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Idea

“A person's birthday should be a special day, a wonderful day, a day of pure celebration for the luck of being born!”

Elise Broach Masterpiece

Source: Masterpiece

Birthday, Personality

“Life was more difficult in Inkheart, yet it seemed to Meggie that with every new day Fenoglio's story was spinning a magic spell around her heart, sticky as a spider's web and enchantingly beautiful..”

Cornelia Funke (1958) author

Life, Beauty, Heart

“He knows bad days. Bad days take him completely by surprise. They make him not trust the good days because it's likely something is lurking twenty-four hours away.”

Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer

Source: The Piper's Son

“I had an inspiration once. I woke up one morning and I knew that it was my task to swallow fifty asprin. It was my task:my job for the day.-17 Girl Interrupted”

Susanna Kaysen book Girl, Interrupted

Source: Girl, Interrupted

Girl

“Can you see the power emotion has to distort our outlook? Makes you wonder, did you have a bad day, or did you make it a bad day.”

Brandon Mull (1974) American fiction writer

Source: Rise of the Evening Star

“Think of every single thing that we 'have to' do to get through a day as something that we 'get to' do… before our turn is over.

Everything is a gift.”

Mike Dooley (1961) American writer

Thinking

“Was it the happiest day of our lives? Probably not, if only because the truly happy days tend not to involve so much organisation, are rarely so public or so expensive. The happy ones sneak up, unexpected.”

David Nicholls book Us

Source: Us

Happiness

“One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains

“Long, dark, and lovely she had been, in those days before her mind broke and the parts scattered and she let them go.”

Daniel Woodrell (1953) Novelist

Source: Winter's Bone

Love, Parting

“Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.”

Jean Paul Sartre book Nausea

Source: Nausea

People, Change

“Outside the windows the day was bright: golden sunshine, blue sky, pleasant wind… I wanted to punch the happy day in the face, grab it by the hair, and beat it until it told me what the hell it was so happy about.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

Happiness, Hell

“A drink a day keeps the shrink away.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

Drink

“She felt happy these days, yet there was always an undercurrent of sadness just below the surface”

Diane Chamberlain (1950) American writer

Source: The Lost Daughter

Happiness, Sadness

“I palliate the sufferings of others. yes I see myself as softening the blows, dissolving acids, neutralizing poisons, every moment of the day. I try to fulfill the wishes of others, to perform miracles. I exert myself performing miracles.”

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

Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Suffering

“Redemption, transformation--God how she wanted these things. Every day, every minute. Didn't everyone?”

Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad

Source: A Visit from the Goon Squad

God

“Not forever does the bulbul sing
In balmy shades of bowers,
Not forever lasts the spring
Nor ever blossom the flowers.
Not forever reigneth joy,
Sets the sun on days of bliss,
Friendships not forever last,
They know not life, who know not this.”

Khushwant Singh Train to Pakistan

Source: Train to Pakistan

Life, Friendship, Spring, Flowers

“anyway. Leo said, I hope you've got your worksheet, 'cause I used mine for spit wads days ago. Why are you looking at me like that? Somebody draw on my face again?”

Rick Riordan book The Lost Hero

Source: The Lost Hero

Hope, Drawing

“To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.”

Chuck Palahniuk book Haunted

Source: Haunted

Night

“I lock eyes with my reflection and don’t look away. The day you look away you start to lose yourself. I’m never going to lose myself. You are what you are. Deal with it or change.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Iced

Change

“Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.”

Georgette Heyer book These Old Shades

Source: These Old Shades

“In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri.”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Women, Men

“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”

John Muir book My First Summer in the Sierra

Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 253
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869

“How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.”

Stephen R. Covey (1932–2012) American educator, author, businessman and motivational speaker

“Seize the day, whatever's in it to seize, before something comes along and seizes you.”

Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer

Source: The Arkadians

“But it seemed to me that this was the way we all lived: full to the brim with gratitude and joy one day, wrecked on the rocks the next. Finding the balance between the two was the art and the salvation.”

Elizabeth Berg (1948) American novelist

Source: The Year of Pleasures

Art, Way, Joy, Gratitude

“When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large, scientific method in most cases fails us. One need only think of the weather, in which case prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us.
Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.”

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

1940s, Science and Religion (1941)

Nature, Thinking, Weather

“I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

People, Time

“By the time they got to Denholm Street, day had been beaten back and the night was soaking through the city.”

Derek Landy Skulduggery Pleasant

Source: Skulduggery Pleasant

Time, Night

“Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."

--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris”

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

World

“ll I can think about, every day, every waking minute since they drew Prim's name at the reaping, is how afraid I am.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

Thinking

“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.

Whoever I had become had to die.”

Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…

Source: American on Purpose: The Improbable Adventures of an Unlikely Patriot

Christmas

“She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies.”

George Gordon Byron book Hebrew Melodies

She Walks in Beauty http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-SWB42.htm, st. 1. The subject of these lines was Mrs. R. Wilmot.—Berry Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 7. <br class="br">Hebrew Melodies (1815)

Beauty, Light, Night

“One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War.”

Winston S. Churchill book The Second World War

The Second World War, Volume I : The Gathering Storm (1948).
Post-war years (1945–1955)

War

“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”

Eloisa James (1962) American academic

Feeling

“Yesterday was a memory. Tomorrow was a hope. Today was another day to live and do one's best to love”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Into the Dreaming

Love, Hope, Memory

“Each day my reason tells me so; But reason doesn't rule in love, you know.”

Molière The Misanthrope

Source: The Misanthrope

Love

“They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Source: Good Poems for Hard Times

People, Sadness

“Those were strange days, now that I look back at them. In the midst of life, everything revolved around death.”

Haruki Murakami book Norwegian Wood

Source: Norwegian Wood

Life, Death

“We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.”

Robert M. Pirsig book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974), Ch. 1
Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Chance, Time, Personality

“One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong”

Martin Luther King, Jr. book Strength to Love

Source: Strength to Love

Learning, Heart

“A little glitter can turn your whole day around.”

Barbara Park (1947–2013) American juvenile author

Source: Junie B., First Grader: Shipwrecked

“Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by two. I'd multiply by ten or twelve if I had the energy.”

Marilynne Robinson Gilead

Source: Gilead

World, Idea, Thinking

“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

People

“Life is unjust and this is what makes it so beautiful. Every day is a gift. Be brave and take hold of it.”

Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer

Life, Beauty

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Quotes about day
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