Quotes about day
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“Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime,
Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

John Donne (1572–1631) English poet

The Sun Rising, stanza 1

Love, Time, Season

“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Lie, Reading

“I've been asleep and I don't know if it's the same day or week or year, but who the hell cares anyway?”

Beatrice Sparks (1917–2012) American writer

Source: Go Ask Alice

Hell

“He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

Life, Business

“What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes.”

Sigmund Freud book The Interpretation of Dreams

Source: The Interpretation of Dreams

Dreams

“But do we know how to make love stay?'
I can't even think about it. The best I can do is play it day by day.”

Tom Robbins book Still Life with Woodpecker

Source: Still Life with Woodpecker

Love, Making love, Thinking

“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(, interview with Budd Mishkin;, March 25, 2007.)”

David Halberstam (1934–2007) American writer, journalist, historian

Source: Everything They Had: Sports Writing

Love, Feeling, Quotes

“There was a young lady named Mae
Who smoked without stopping all day;
As pack followed pack,
Her lungs first turned black,
And eventually rotted away.”

Edward Gorey (1925–2000) American writer, artist, and illustrator

Source: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey & Peter F. Neumeyer

“I didn't mean to come here…
And I didn't mean to stay…
It's just where the sea wind blew me
One accidental day…”

Cressida Cowell (1966) British writer

Sea

“If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.”

Brian Tracy (1944) American motivational speaker and writer

Reading

“The days that make us happy make us wise.”

John Masefield (1878–1967) English poet and writer

Happiness

“If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

Source: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.”

Louisa May Alcott (1832–1888) American novelist

Books, Reading, Help

“On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard. It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.”

Mark Haddon book The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Source: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Silence

“We never know. Any day could be the day we go down, and we never know.”

Stephen King book Revival

Source: Revival

“Thanks for this day, for all birds safe in their nests, for whatever this is, for life.”

Barbara Kingsolver book Prodigal Summer

Source: Prodigal Summer

Life, Bird

“Everyday is one less day.”

Tom Ford (1961) American fashion designer

“Think often on God, by day, by night, in your business and even in your diversions. He is always near you and with you; leave him not alone.”

Brother Lawrence (1614–1691) French Christian monk

God, Business, Thinking, Night

“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”

Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve

Source: The Passion of New Eve

“For we have thought the longer thoughts
And gone the shorter way.
And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray;
To serve one master in the night,
Another in the day.”

Ernest Hemingway book 88 Poems

Source: 88 Poems

Way, Home, Dance, Night

“Secrets of the heart. We swallow hard against them every day, forcing them deep inside us. There they sit, growing heavier, festering. Given enough time, they cannot help but crush the heart that holds them.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

Secret, Time, Help, Heart

“Moments into minutes. Minutes into hours. Hours into days. Days into years. Years into possibility. This will linger.”

David Levithan The Realm of Possibility

Source: The Realm of Possibility

“Every day, have a little bird on your shoulder that asks, 'Is today the day? Am I ready? Am I doing all I need to do? Am I being the person i want to be? Is today the day I die?”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Bird, Personality

“Don’t waste another day of your life grieving over something that you cannot do anything about. Let God give you a new beginning. Your mistakes are not enough to stop God if you don’t let them.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

Life, God

“Day followed day, each one a little different from the one before… but the little house stayed just the same.”

Virginia Lee Burton book The Little House

Source: The Little House

Housing

“I'd tell him to go to hell, but it just so happens I'm stuck there and don't want to have to see him every day.”

Jill Shalvis (1963) American writer

Source: Get A Clue

Hell

“Magnus had been alive hundreds of years himself, and yet the simplest things could turn a day into a jewel, and a succession of days into a glittering chain that went on and on. Here was the simplest thing: a pretty girl liked him, and the day shone.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

Girl, Success

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

Alexandre Dumas book The Count of Monte Cristo

Source: The Count of Monte Cristo

God, Happiness

“I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram.”

Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

World

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

Books, Imagination

“If there were ever any half-bloods who needed to worry about that, it
was Thalia and me. I wondered if maybe I should've sent Poseidon that seashell pattern tie
for Father's Day after all.
--Percy Jackson”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

“What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.”

Pearl Cleage What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Source: What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day

Love

“Just for you non-sea-god types out there, don't go swimming in New York Harbor. It may not be as filthy as it was in my mom's day, but that water will still probably make you grow a third eye or have mutant children when you grow up.”

Rick Riordan (1964) American writer

God, Children, Moms, Water

“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving…”

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

1930s, Mein Weltbild (My World-view) (1931)
Source: The World As I See It
Context: How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people — first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy. A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving....

Life, Men, Time, Dead

“Holding a tear back makes them drain upward, higher and higher, until one day your head just explodes and you're left with a stub of a neck and nothing more.”

Alice Hoffman book Practical Magic

Source: Practical Magic

Tear

“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden

Time, Past, Future, Weather

“She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.”

Maggie O'Farrell (1972) British writer

Source: After You'd Gone

Life, Feeling, Reality, Reading

“Do you miss her?'
'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“For me starting the day without a pot of tea would be a day forever out of kilter.”

Bill Drummond (1953) Scottish musician, music industry figure, writer and artist

Source: $20,000

Tea

“But they never last, the golden days. And it can be sad, the sun in the afternoon, can't it? Yes, it can be sad, the afternoon sun, sad and frightening.”

Jean Rhys book Good Morning, Midnight

Source: Good Morning, Midnight

Sadness, Sun

“[…] I've come to the conclusion that the artist can not justify life or come up with a cogent reason as to why life is meaningful, but the artist can provide you with a cold glass of water on a hot day.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Life, Water

“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.”

Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943) poet, short story writer, novelist

Innkeeper's wife
A Child is Born (1942)
Context: Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
Context: Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost
Minute by minute, day by dragging day,
In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways,
The smooth appeasing compromises of time,
Which are King Herod and King Herod's men,
Always and always. Life can be
Lost without vision but not lost by death,
Lost by not caring, willing, going on
Beyond the ragged edge of fortitude
To something more — something no man has ever seen.
You who love money, you who love yourself,
You who love bitterness, and I who loved
and lost and thought I could not love again,
And all the people of this little town,
Rise up! The loves we had were not enough.
Something is loosed to change the shaken world,
And with it we must change!

Life, Way

“The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money.”

Alexis De Tocqueville (1805–1859) French political thinker and historian

This is a variant expression of a sentiment which is often attributed to Tocqueville or Alexander Fraser Tytler, but the earliest known occurrence is as an unsourced attribution to Tytler in "This is the Hard Core of Freedom" by Elmer T. Peterson in The Daily Oklahoman (9 December 1951): "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury. After that, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefits with the result the democracy collapses because of the loose fiscal policy ensuing, always to be followed by a dictatorship, then a monarchy."
Misattributed
Variant: The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.

Money

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”

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

Life, Fear, Learning

“I’ve met plenty of embarrassing parents, but Kronos, the evil Titan Lord who wanted to destroy Western Civilization? Not the kind of dad you invited to
school for Career Day.”

Rick Riordan book The Sea of Monsters

Source: The Sea of Monsters

School, Parent, Evil

“I don’t think it was our time then. I guess it isn’t now, either.” John looks over at me, his gaze steady. “But one day maybe it will be.”

Jenny Han book P.S. I Still Love You

Source: P.S. I Still Love You

Thinking, Time

“The day the soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.”

Colin Powell (1937) Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general

Confidence, Failure, Problem, Help

“Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

Love, Moms, Water, Daughters

“There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight inclination of each day towards success or failure. But no curses.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Failure, Success

“Things break all the time.
Day breaks, waves break, voices break.
Promises break.
Hearts break.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Time, Heart

“Remember that no matter where I am or what I'm doing I've got a special place inside me that's all for you. It's been there since the day we met.”

Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer

Source: Sweethearts

“I realized that even if we went on talking till Judgment Day, I would still find the time all too short.”

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

Time

“A relationship isn't something that has to be created in a day or perfected in a day. Part of the game is to keep working on it. It's something that'll always be just a little flawed.”

Nora Roberts (1950) American romance writer

Game, Parting, Perfection

“The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.”

William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer

Tea

“Egyptians believe in the power of the sunrise. They believe each morning begins not just a new day, but a new world.”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

World

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”

Vincent Van Gogh (1853–1890) Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)

Dreams, Night, Deep, Good Night

“And the very act of living is a tide; at first it seems to make no difference at all, and then one day you look down and see how much pain has eroded”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Pain

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”

Jasper Fforde book One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Source: One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

Shoe

“What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.
Have a nice day.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Learning

“It looks like a bothering sort of day.”

A.A. Milne (1882–1956) British author

“Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Source: Red Bird

Life, Business, Heart

“I know what it's like to be day and night now; always together, forever apart.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Notebook

Source: The Notebook

Night

“And yet I decide, every day, to set aside what I can do best and attempt what I do very clumsily--open myself to the frustrations and failures of loving, daring to believe that failing in love is better than succeeding in pride.”

Eugene H. Peterson (1932–2018) American translator

Source: A Long Obedience in the Same Direction: Discipleship in an Instant Society

Love, Failure

“People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.”

Robert Greene book Mastery

Source: Mastery

People, Idea, Mood, Change

“There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why.”

Terry Tempest Williams (1955) American writer

Source: When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice

Life

“A man should be resigned to knowing himself a little better each day if he hasn't got the guts to put an end to his sniveling once and for all.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

“Westley: This is true love — you think this happens every day?”

William Goldman book The Princess Bride

Source: The Princess Bride

Love, Thinking

“No person [should] walk out into the world to begin the day until he or she has stood beneath the cross to receive God’s love.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Love, God, World, Personality

“The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.”

Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator

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Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Backbone of Night [Episode 7]

Star

“She was bendable light: she shone around every corner of my day.”

Jerry Spinelli book Stargirl

Source: Stargirl

Light

“It’s a yes then? (Arik)
No. I thought I’d walk through hell to reclaim you and carry your baby just for the heck of it. Who needs marriage. (Geary)
I do! (Arik)
Good. I can let you live another day. (Geary)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: The Dream Hunter

Marriage, Hell, Baby

“The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.”

Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) Jewish-American political theorist

The New Yorker (12 September 1970).

“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me…”

"I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”

Anthony Horowitz Alex Rider

Source: Snakehead

Life, Books

“Most murders are committed by someone who is known to the victim. In fact, you are most likely to be murdered by a member of your own family on Christmas day.”

Mark Haddon (1962) English writer and illustrator

Source: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time

Family, Christmas

“Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.”

Glen Cook book Sweet Silver Blues

Source: Sweet Silver Blues

Time

“Life is brief and to have to spend every day of it doing what somebody else wants you to do is not the way to live it.”

Cormac McCarthy (1933) American novelist, playwright, and screenwriter

Life, Way

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, and the stars.”

Walt Whitman book Fulles d'herba

Source: Leaves of Grass

Books, Art, Soul, Star

“After all, tomorrow is another day!”

Margaret Mitchell book Vom Winde verweht (1937 German edition)

Source: Gone with the Wind

“So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.”

Justin Cronin The Passage

Source: The Passage

Life

“Not enough," he said, letting her hair slip through his fingers. "If I kiss you all day, everyday, for the rest of my life, it won't be enough.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Life, Kiss

“When shall we pass a day alone? I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love - but if you should deny me the thousand and first - 'twould put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

Source: Bright Star: Love Letters and Poems of John Keats to Fanny Brawne

Love, Soul, Kiss

“The only clothes Amanda has are the ones on her back. (Kyrian)
From what I saw, she had no clothes whatsoever on her back. Her front neither. (Nick)
One day, Gaitor bait… (Kyrian)
Note to self- be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Clothes

“I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.”

Robert A. Heinlein book The Cat Who Walks Through Walls

Richard Ames; chapter 3, p. 27
Source: The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)

Happiness, Chance, Reading

“I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

People

“A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.”

Bill Watterson (1958) American comic artist

Source: There's Treasure Everywhere: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

“You show me a lazy prick who's lying in bed all day, watching TV, only occasionally getting up to piss, and I'll show you a guy who's not causing any trouble.”

George Carlin book Brain Droppings

Source: Brain Droppings

Guy, Lying

“Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day”

David Levithan book Every Day

Source: Every Day

“I'd known enough people for every minute of the day, and yet still didn't have anyone as my two a. m.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

People

“We move through places every day that would never have been if not for those who came before us. Our workplaces, where we spend so much time--we often think they began with our arrival. That's not true.”

Mitch Albom book The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Source: The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Thinking, Time

“Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.”

Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels

Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

“It is difficult
to get the news from poems

yet men die miserably every day

for lack”

William Carlos Williams book Journey to Love

'of what is found there.'
Journey to Love (1955), Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
Source: Asphodel, That Greeny Flower and Other Love Poems: That Greeny Flower

Men

“To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days”

Plutarch (46–127) ancient Greek historian and philosopher

Men, Childhood

“I thought yesterday was the first day of the rest of my life but it turns out today is.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

Life

“but our Lord was not silent. Even if he had been silent, my life until this day would have spoken of Him.”

Shūsaku Endō book Silence

Source: Silence

Life

“One day you will learn that love does not always betray you.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

Source: Seducing an Angel

Love, Learning

“A town so suffocating and small, you tripped over people you hated every day. People who knew things about you. It's the kind of place that leaves a mark.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Hate, People

“Defeat I can endure with cheerfulness, my lady. But betrayal is like taking the wind from my sails, or the earth from beneath my feet. It chills my spirits like a rainy day, and all I can do is draw the curtains and cry into my pillow.”

Margaret George (1943) American writer

Source: Mary Queen of Scotland and The Isles

Betrayal, Drawing, Cry

“… no matter where you go or what you do, I'll love every day for the rest of my life.”

Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer

Source: Smooth Talking Stranger

Love, Life

“I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood.”

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

1960s, I Have A Dream (1963)
Source: I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
Context: Let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal." I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slaveowners will be able to sit down together at a table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a state, sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Dreams

“For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

Future

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