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Quotes About Day

night is kinder in this respect than day, which too often destroys an air-built castle at the moment of its completion, without the least ceremony or remorse.
~ Charles Dickens
So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily
~ Charles Dickens
Fermati, tu che leggi, e medita per un momento sulla lunga catena di bronzo o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe soggiogato se in un solo memorabile giorno non si fosse formato e chiuso il primo anello.
~ Charles Dickens
He sat in the same place as the day died, looking at the dull houses opposite, and thinking, if the disembodied spirits of former inhabitants were ever conscious of them, how they must pity themselves for their old places of imprisonment.
~ Charles Dickens
Contemplating the scene?' inquired the dismal man. 'I was,' said Mr. Pickwick. 'And congratulating yourself on being up so soon?' Mr. Pickwick nodded assent. 'Ah! people need to rise early, to see the sun in all his splendour, for his brightness seldom lasts the day through. The morning of day and the morning of life are but too much alike.
~ Charles Dickens
In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared by the nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken a lively interest in me several months before there was any possibility of our becoming personally
~ Charles Dickens
Fu, per me, un giorno memorabile, gravido di profondi cambiamenti nella mia vita. Ma succede così per qualunque vita. Immaginate di eliminarne un certo giorno, e pensate un po' come il suo corso sarebbe stato diverso! Fermati, tu che leggi, e pensa per un attimo alla lunga catena di ferro o d'oro, di spine o di fiori, che mai ti avrebbe legato se, in un solo memorabile giorno, non se ne fosse costruito il primo anello.
~ Charles Dickens
Oh woman, God beloved in old Jerusalem! The best among us need deal lightly with thy faults, if only for the punishment thy nature will endure, in bearing heavy evidence against us, on the Day of Judgment!
~ Charles Dickens
This is one of those days which I am obliged to record as almost a blank in my existence.
~ CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS
A strange amazing day that comes only once every four years... A day of temporal tune up!
~ Vera Nazarian, 2010
Love is like an April day, Half of sunshine, half of shower; Right the poets, they who say Love is like an April day— Silver lined, deny who may, Are the clouds that darkly lower— Love is like an April day, Half of sunshine, half of shower.
~ Jean Wright
If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays.
~ John Wagner
Dawn is opportunity opening the door to a new day.
~ Terri Guillemets
The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Midnight: The Pole of the hours; a pincushion on which sparkle all the seconds of a day.
~ Elbert Hubbard
TO-MORROW. The only day in the year that appeals to a lazy man.
~ George V. Hobart
So I dreamed. Aye one remembers With a sigh those dear Septembers; And I start, as well I may: I have wasted half a day.
~ Alexander Smith, "Autumn"
Start the day with a smile (and get it over with)
~ Bumper sticker, 1960s
Entrava dia e saía dia. As noites cobriam a terra de chofre. A tampa anilada baixava, escurecia, quebrada apenas pelas vermelhidões do poente.
~ Graciliano Ramos
That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.
~ Gregory Galloway
Wonder made the old chicka-chicka-boom beat so potent it sounded like a syncopated version of Judgment Day.
~ Greil Marcus
I would prefer day and night in the sphinxeries Wanting to know and thus, at last, be devoured there.
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
Le jour n'existe plus le soleil s'est noyé
~ Guillaume Apollinaire
A life of love now filled with hope, grows stronger day by day. Because my love you are next to me. And there's no other place I would rather be.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)