Quotes about morning
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“Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it was because he existed, and when I ordered food it was because he existed, and when I wrote my book it was because he existed to read it.”

Nicole Krauss The History of Love

Source: The History of Love

Books, Food, Reading

“The moment I stopped spending so much time chasing the big pleasure of life. I began to enjoy the little ones, like watching the stars dancing in moonlit sky or soaking in the sunbeams of a glorious summer morning.”

Robin S. Sharma (1965) Canadian self help writer

Source: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari: A Remarkable Story About Living Your Dreams

Life, Pleasure, Star, Time

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

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

Books, Beauty, Peaceful

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”

Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist

Out of Habit
Song lyrics
Variant: Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.
You know it doesn't seem fair,
That I'm living for something I can't even define.
And there you are right there, in the mean time.

Art

“Morning would come before we knew it. It always did. But we still had the night, and for now, we were together, so I just closed my eyes and drank it all in.”

Sarah Dessen book Along for the Ride

Source: Along for the Ride

Night

“We cant go around picking up every pile of dust in the place just in case it turns out to be Gregor in the morning."
-Pg.242-”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“There was nothing like having a dead husband return from the grave to ruin a fine spring morning.”

Jayne Ann Krentz (1948) American novelist

Source: Second Sight

Spring, Dead

“Q: How would you like your eggs in the morning?

A: Unfertilized”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

“I'm sorry you don't get it, Mom. Sometimes I don't get why I do the things I do. I just know I wake up every morning and wish I was dead.”

Julie Anne Peters (1952) American writer

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

Moms, Dead

“Every night death came, slowly, painfully, and every morning Maddox awoke in bed, knowing he'd have to die again later. That was his greatest curse and his eternal punishment.”

Gena Showalter (1975) American writer

Source: The Darkest Night

Death, Night

“Here on the pulse of this new day
You may have the grace to look up and out
And into your sister's eyes,
Into your brother's face, your country
And say simply
Very simply
With hope
Good morning.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

Hope, Sister, Country

“It is a time of quiet joy, the sunny morning. When the glittery dew is on the mallow weeds, each leaf holds a jewel which is beautiful if not valuable. This is no time for hurry or for bustle. Thoughts are slow and deep and golden in the morning.”

John Steinbeck book Tortilla Flat

Source: Tortilla Flat

Beauty, Time, Joy

“I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.”

Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989) English novelist

God, Religion

“Maybe it's just the morning light, but he looks pretty cool standing there with his sword.”

Rumiko Takahashi (1957) manga artist

Light

“I didn't know that, you take your coffee seriously, dont you?'
'Every morning, I run to the coffeemaker like a soldier returning to a lost love after the war.”

Lisa Kleypas book Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Source: Christmas Eve at Friday Harbor

Love, War, Coffee

“Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.”

Anna Quindlen (1952) journalist, Novelist

Source: Every Last One

Love

“My dear, I think of you always and at night I build myself a warm nest of things I remember and float in your sweetness till morning.”

Zelda Fitzgerald (1900–1948) Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald

Thinking, Night

“In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

Men Without Women (short story collection) (1927)
Source: The Complete Short Stories

Time, Heart

“Morning. Strawberry sky dusted with white winter powder sugar sun. And nobody to munch on it with”

Francesca Lia Block Missing Angel Juan

Source: Missing Angel Juan

Winter, Sun

“The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible.”

Knut Hamsun book Hunger

Source: Hunger

Color

“However many years she lived, Mary always felt that 'she should never forget that first morning when her garden began to grow'.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

Forgetting

“I give myself a good cry if I need it. But then I concentrate on the good things still in my life. I don't allow myself any more self-pity than that. A little each every morning, a few tears, and that's all.”

Mitch Albom Tuesdays with Morrie

Source: Tuesdays with Morrie

Life, Tear, Cry

“We shall throw him out onto the streets, I promise you he'll be gone by morning.
Oh-no, you can't mean that-
Of course I don't. But you felt better for a moment there, didn't you?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

“Mistakes are something that happen by accident. You didn't walk out the door one morning and fall into some guy's bed. You thought about it, for a while. You made that choice.”

Jodi Picoult book The Tenth Circle

Source: The Tenth Circle

Guy

“Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Love, Good Morning

“Throw up into your typewriter every morning. Clean up every noon.”

Raymond Chandler (1888–1959) Novelist, screenwriter

“Few people arise in the morning as hungry for God as they are for cornflakes or toast and eggs.”

Dallas Willard (1935–2013) American philosopher

Source: Hearing God: Developing a Conversational Relationship with God

God, People

“A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses.”

Ernest Hemingway book A Farewell to Arms

Source: A Farewell to Arms

Coffee, Wine

“I love the smell of the universe in the morning.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Love, Universe

“Before leaving my room
i turn, and (stooping
through the morning) kiss
this pillow, dear
where our heads lived and were.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Kiss

“Fortunately, the sun has a wonderfully glorious habit of rising every morning”

Jean Craighead George book My Side of the Mountain

Source: My Side of the Mountain

Sun

“He sounded harassed more than anything else, like mass home invasion was just something standing between him and morning coffee.”

Rachel Caine book Glass Houses

Source: Glass Houses

Home, Coffee

“It is my first morning of high school. I have seven new notebooks, a skirt I hate, and a stomachache.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Hate, School

“Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind”

Juliet Marillier book Cybele's Secret

Source: Cybele's Secret

Tree, Water, Heart, Night

“Happiness. It comes on
unexpectedly. And goes beyond, really,
any early morning talk about it.”

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

Happiness

“Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today.”

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) American comedian

Happiness, Deep, Attitude

“The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

Marriage, Dreams

“Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.”

Richard Wilbur (1921–2017) American poet

Love Calls Us To The Things Of This World
Source: Collected Poems, 1943-2004
Context: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys,
And spirited from sleep, the astounded soul
Hangs for a moment bodiless and simple
As false dawn.
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels.

Angels

“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

“I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.”

Peter de Vries (1910–1993) American editor and novelist

“I rather like the smell of absurdity in the morning.”

Tom Robbins Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Source: Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

“The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is…”

Aldous Huxley book Island

Source: Island

Chance

“And that is just the point… how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. "Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment?”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

World, Beauty, Question

“The barriers between reality and fiction are softer than we think; a bit like a frozen lake. Hundreds of people can walk across it, but then one evening a thin spot develops and someone falls through; the hole is frozen over by the following morning.”

Jasper Fforde book The Eyre Affair

Source: The Eyre Affair

People, Thinking, Reality

“anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake.

at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming”

Meg Cabot (1967) Novelist

Source: Princess on the Brink

God, Parent, Princess

“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.”

Johanna Spyri book Heidi

Source: Heidi

Beauty, Mountain, Sun, Night

“Actually, I'd already briefed him, early this morning. Since we were up at six. Since, at six, the nurse had been overcome with the overwhelming compulsion to take Fang's temperature.”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: School's Out—Forever

“One has not lived until one has carried a sixty-pound dog down a sweeping flight of stairs at half-past V in the morning.”

Connie Willis book To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Dogs, Past

“That day was the beginning of my friendship with Sebastian, and thus it came about, that morning in June, that I was lying beside him in the shade of the high elms watching the smoke from his lips drift up into the branches.”

Evelyn Waugh (1903–1966) British writer

Source: Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder

Friendship, Lying

“This is the unforgiving light of the morning, time to drop the illusion.”

Gillian Flynn book Sharp Objects

Source: Sharp Objects

Light, Time

“Internet users, that blue screen of death you were looking at this morning? That's the sky. If you're still confused, look it up on Wikipedia tomorrow.”

Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor

Death

“I sometimes wake in the early morning & listen to the soft breathing of my child & I think to myself, this is one thing I will never regret & I carry that quiet with me all day long.”

Brian Andreas (1956) American artist

Thinking

“For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.”

Alan Lightman book Einstein's Dreams

Source: Einstein's Dreams

Kiss, Memory, Passion, Night

“The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi

Source: Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community

Life, Death, Light, Christ

“Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun.”

Richard Rhodes The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Source: The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Love, Family, Sleep, Freedom

“We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can
play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the
morning.”

George Steiner (1929–2020) American writer

Preface.
Language and Silence: Essays 1958-1966 (1967)
Context: We come after. We know now that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning. To say that he has read them without understanding or that his ear is gross, is cant. In what way does this knowledge bear on literature and society, on the hope, grown almost axiomatic from the time of Plato to that of Matthew Arnold, that culture is a humanizing force, that the energies of spirit are transferable to those of conduct?

Reading

“He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and café, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald book This Side of Paradise

Source: This Side of Paradise

Sleep

“Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying… and every day on the balcony of the sea wings open fire is born and everything is blue again like morning.”

Pablo Neruda (1904–1973) Chilean poet

Sea

“1lb beefstak, with
1pt bitter beer
every 6 hours.
1 ten-mile walk every morning.
1 bed at 11 sharp every night.
And don't stuff your head with things you don't understand.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Beer, Understanding, Night

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy”

Norman Vincent Peale (1898–1993) American writer

Happiness

“Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago.”

Neil deGrasse Tyson (1958) American astrophysicist and science communicator

Source: Death by Black Hole - And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Thinking

“Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning. Time can't be given. But it can be shared”

Cecelia Ahern (1981) Irish novelist

Source: The Gift

Tree, Time, Christmas

“There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.”

Frank McCourt book Angela's Ashes

Source: Angela's Ashes (1996)

Night

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.”

Henry David Thoreau book Walden ou la vie dans les bois

Source: Walden (1854), p.375

Star, Sun, Good Morning

“I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon”

Alice Sebold book The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

Girl, Kiss, Time

“Someone please tell me that we’re not seriously having a friggin’ debate over the genius of ‘Karma Chameleon’ at seven o’clock in the morning? (Xypher)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Dream Chaser

“He broke the kiss and leaned against her, breathing hard. "Good morning to you, too. Man, I just can't stay mad when you do that.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Midnight Alley

Kiss, Madness

“In the morning light, I remembered how much I loved the sound of wind through the trees. I laid back and closed my eyes, and I was comforted by the sound of a million tiny leaves dancing on a summer morning.”

Patrick Carman book The Tenth City

Source: The Tenth City

Love, Tree, Light, Dance

“I hate mornings. They start so early.”

Janet Evanovich book Plum Spooky

Source: Plum Spooky

Hate

“And besides, I like to cry. After I cry hard it's like it's morning again and I'm starting the day over.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Cry

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

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

“A man on a thousand mile walk has to forget his goal and say to himself every morning, 'Today I'm going to cover twenty-five miles and then rest up and sleep.”

Leo Tolstoy book War and Peace

Source: War and Peace

Sleep, Forgetting

“Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.”

Franz Kafka book The Trial

First lines, Ch. 1
Variant translation: Somebody must have slandered Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning.
Source: The Trial (1920)
Context: Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. His landlady's cook, who always brought him his breakfast at eight o'clock, failed to appear on this occasion. That had never happened before.

“I thought the morning would bring change. But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second. A moment. In a single breath, reality as you know it can simply fall away.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: United We Spy

Reality, Change

“That's how it is with relationships, it's a part of life, and all the great love songs and poems and films have been written by people who were standing where I was that morning as Simon shut the door. Doesn't make it any easier though.”

Jane Green (1968) British writer

Source: Straight Talking

Love, Life, People, Parting