Quotes about morning page 4
Cary Grant (1904–1986) British-American film and stage actor
As quoted in "Quotable Cary" at American Masters (25 May 2005)
Source: https://www.newspapers.com/clip/33680672/the-los-angeles-times/ "Cary Grant: Doing What Comes naturally,"
Kenneth Grahame book The Wind in the Willows
Source: The Wind in the Willows (1908), Ch. 7
Context: Perhaps he would never have dared to raise his eyes, but that, though the piping was now hushed, the call and the summons seemed still dominant and imperious. He might not refuse, were Death himself waiting to strike him instantly, once he had looked with mortal eye on things rightly kept hidden. Trembling he obeyed, and raised his humble head; and then, in that utter clearness of the imminent dawn, while Nature, flushed with fullness of incredible colour, seemed to hold her breath for the event, he looked in the very eyes of the Friend and Helper; saw the backward sweep of the curved horns, gleaming in the growing daylight; saw the stern, hooked nose between the kindly eyes that were looking down on them humourously, while the bearded mouth broke into a half-smile at the corners; saw the rippling muscles on the arm that lay across the broad chest, the long supple hand still holding the pan-pipes only just fallen away from the parted lips; saw the splendid curves of the shaggy limbs disposed in majestic ease on the sward; saw, last of all, nestling between his very hooves, sleeping soundly in entire peace and contentment, the little, round, podgy, childish form of the baby otter. All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he looked, he lived; and still, as he lived, he wondered.
Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) Spanish artist
quote of 1953; as cited in Smithsonian magazine.
Variants:
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy of being Salvador Dalí — and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
Every morning when I awake, the greatest of joys is mine: that of being Salvador Dalí.
Quotes of Salvador Dali, 1951 - 1960
“I stuck my head out the window this morning and spring kissed me bang in the face.”
Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist
“When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news.”
Anthony Horowitz book Stormbreaker
Source: Stormbreaker
“For dreams, too, are ghosts, desires chased in sleep, gone by morning.”
Libba Bray (1964) American teen writer
Source: Lair of Dreams
“I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.”
Victor Hugo book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
Lisa Kleypas (1964) American writer
Source: Married By Morning
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963
“On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.”
H. Allen Smith (1907–1976) American journalist
“Things are always better in the morning.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer
Source: Dancing in My Nuddy-Pants
Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale
Source: The Thirteenth Tale
Sabrina Ward Harrison (1975) Canadian writer
Source: Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself
“Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”
John Steinbeck book Tortilla Flat
Source: Tortilla Flat
James Joyce book A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Phantom
Tsunetomo Yamamoto book Hagakure
As translated by William Scott Wilson. This first sentence of this passage was used as a military slogan during the early 20th century to encourage soldiers to throw themselves into battle. Variant translations:
Bushido is realised in the presence of death. In the case of having to choose between life and death you should choose death. There is no other reasoning. Move on with determination. To say dying without attaining ones aim is a foolish sacrifice of life is the flippant attitude of the sophisticates in the Kamigata area. In such a case it is difficult to make the right judgement. No one longs for death. We can speculate on whatever we like. But if we live without having attaining that aim, we are cowards. This is an important point and the correct path of the Samurai. When we calmly think of death morning and evening and are in despair, We are able to gain freedom in the way of the Samurai. Only then can we fulfil our duty without making mistakes in life.
By the Way of the warrior is meant death. The Way of the warrior is death. This means choosing death whenever there is a choice between life and death. It means nothing more than this. It means to see things through, being resolved.
I have found that the Way of the samurai is death. This means that when you are compelled to choose between life and death, you must quickly choose death.
The way of the Samurai is in death.
I have found the essence of Bushido: to die!
Hagakure (c. 1716)
Source: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai
Context: The Way of the Samurai is found in death. When it comes to either/or, there is only the quick choice of death. It is not particularly difficult. Be determined and advance. To say that dying without reaching one's aim is to die a dog's death is the frivolous way of sophisticates. When pressed with the choice of life or death, it is not necessary to gain one's aim.
We all want to live. And in large part we make our logic according to what we like. But not having attained our aim and continuing to live is cowardice. This is a thin dangerous line. To die without gaining one's aim is a dog's death and fanaticism. But there is no shame in this. This is the substance of the Way of the Samurai. If by setting one's heart right every morning and evening, one is able to live as though his body were already dead, he gains freedom in the Way. His whole life will be without blame, and he will succeed in his calling.
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Katniss Everdeen, Rue's song, p. 235
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)
“I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
William Blake book Songs of Experience
Source: Poems from the Pickering Manuscript (c. 1805), Auguries of Innocence, Line 123
Source: Songs of Experience
“Because it is morning, it is morning, and there is so much to see.”
Libba Bray book The Sweet Far Thing
Source: The Sweet Far Thing
Terri Farley (1950) American writer
Source: Seven Tears Into the Sea
“Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!”
Dodie Smith book I Capture the Castle
Source: I Capture the Castle
“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Magic Burns
“In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning”
Carl Sandburg (1878–1967) American writer and editor
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
“It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a. m.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“It's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning.”
Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman
“You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.”
Jon Stewart (1962) American political satirist, writer, television host, actor, media critic and stand-up comedian
“How bitter were
the Prozac pills
of the last
few hundred mornings”
Leonard Cohen book Book of Longing
Source: Book of Longing
“I love the smell of book ink in the morning.”
Umberto Eco (1932–2016) Italian semiotician, essayist, philosopher, literary critic, and novelist
Bill Gates (1955) American business magnate and philanthropist
TIME magazine Vol. 149, No. 2 (13 January 1997) http://web.archive.org/web/20000619135050/http://www.time.com/time/gates/gates7.html <br class="br">1990s
Eloisa James (1962) American academic
Source: When Beauty Tamed the Beast
Elizabeth Wurtzel book Prozac Nation
Variant: There is a classic moment in ‘The Sun Also Rises’ when someone asks Mike Campbell how he went bankrupt, and all he can say in response is, “Gradually and then suddenly.” When someone asks how I lost my mind, that’s all I can say too.
Source: Prozac Nation
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Friendship
Rob Thurman (1950) American writer
Source: Deathwish
“The longest way must have its close - the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe book Uncle Tom's Cabin
Source: Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), Ch. 40 The Martyr
Context: The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.
Frederick Buechner (1926) Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
Source: The Alphabet of Grace (1970)
“He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.”
John Bunyan (1628–1688) English Christian writer and preacher
Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay
Katniss (p. 390; closing words of the epilogue)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: I'll tell them how I survive it. I'll tell them that on bad mornings, it feels impossible to take pleasure in anything because I'm afraid it could be taken away. That's when I make a list in my head of every act of goodness I've seen someone do. It's like a game. Repetitive. Even a little tedious after more than twenty years.
But there are much worse games to play.
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
"Alaska Glaciers: Graphic Description of the Yosemite of the Far Northwest", San Francisco Daily Evening Bulletin (part 5 of 11 part series "Notes of a Naturalist") dated 7 September 1879, published 27 September 1879; reprinted as "Baird Glacier" in Letters from Alaska, edited by Robert Engberg and Bruce Merrell (University of Wisconsin Press, 1993), pages 28-32 (at page 31); modified slightly and reprinted in Travels in Alaska http://www.sierraclub.org/john_muir_exhibit/writings/travels_in_alaska/ (1915), chapter 5, A Cruise in the Cassiar <br class="br">First lines of the documentary film series " The National Parks: America's Best Idea http://www.pbs.org/nationalparks/" by Ken Burns. <br class="br">1910s