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Quotes About Day

Five days shalt thou labour, as the Bible says. The seventh day is the Lord thy God's. The sixth day is for football
~ Anthony Burgess
The bishop did it, and a very pleasant day indeed he spent at Ullathorne. And when he got home, he had a glass of hot negus in his wife's sitting-room, and read the last number of the Little Dorrit of the day with great inward satisfaction.
~ Anthony Trollope
And the night shall be filled with music,         And the cares that infest the day Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,         And as silently steal away.
~ Anya Seton
Evening may therefore be called 'the old age of the day,' and old age, 'the evening of life,' or, in the phrase of Empedocles, 'life's setting sun.
~ Aristotle
Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. But however far they travel from their native world, human beings can never escape the diurnal rhythm, set ages ago by its cycle of light and darkness.
~ Arthur C. Clarke
By the time she was standing up and in her bathrobe the day had fallen into its routine; after the first involuntary rebellion against every day's alarm she subsided regularly into the shower, make-up, dress, breakfast schedule which would take her through the beginning of the day and out into the morning where she could forget the green grass and the hot sun and begin to look forward to dinner and the evening.
~ Shirley Jackson
Because this was a time and a land where enchantments were swiftly made and broken she wanted to linger over her lunch, knowing that Hill House always waited for her at the end of her day.
~ Shirley Jackson
The future was clay, to be molded day by day, but the past was bedrock, immutable.
~ Sidney Sheldon
but the state of sleep, we found, is not characterized by the disintegration of psychical interconnections, but by the focus on the wish to sleep by the psychical system in control of the day.
~ Sigmund Freud
Let's look to this day, and only this day. This gift of a perfect summer morning.
~ Sigrid Nunez
Non avevo idee sovversive, anzi, non avevo affatto idee, su nulla; ma per tutto il giorno mi allenavo a riflettere, a comprendere, a criticare, e mi ponevo domande; cercavo con precisione la verità: questo scrupolo mi rendeva inadatta alle conversazioni mondane.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Day on day he waited. So much of a revolution for so many people is nothing but waiting. That is one reason why tourists rarely see anything but contentment in a crushed population. Waiting, and its brother death, seem so contented.
~ Sinclair Lewis
Come, Fate, a friend at need, Come with all speed! Come, my best friend, And speed my end! Away, away! Let me not look upon another day!
~ Sophocles
Now what a black sea of terror has overwhelmed him. Now as we keep our watch and wait the final day, count no man happy till he dies, free of pain at last.
~ Sophocles
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
~ George Herbert
Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life.
~ Hilda Doolittle
Whenever I do a performance I always hope it is the best day of my life. Sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn't.
~ Hiromi
The moment the angel enters a life it enters an environment. We are ecological from day one.
~ James Hillman
They that have lived a single day have lived an age.
~ Jean de la Bruyere
Feeling grateful to breathe a new day. Gratitude is a way to submit to the flow of life.
~ Vishwas Chavan
The future was something I had resolutely ignored. If didn't put my full attention to the day at hand, I was afraid that the impenetrable dark on the horizon would engulf me
~ Barbara Morgenroth, Bad Apple
The world has two faces :The day or the bright moment whenwe naturally stay alive (awake).The night or the dark moment whenwe naturally remain dead (sleep).
~ Rohan Nath
From mornTo noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve,A summer's day; and with the setting sunDropp'd from the zenith like a falling star.
~ John Milton