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Quotes About Days

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.
~ Rilke-Gesellschaft
What a name! Was it love or praise? Speech half-asleep or song half-awake? I must learn Spanish, one of these days, Only for that slow sweet name's sake.
~ Robert Browning
Sugar syrup may develop a black mold in the pail when the bees don't eat it for a several days, or it may actually ferment if the weather is warm. A good rule of thumb is, if the look or the smell of the syrup is such that you wouldn't drink it, don't give it to your bees.
~ Kim Flottum
It was in those days when I wandered about hungry in Kristiania, that strange city which no one leaves before it has set its mark upon him. . . .
~ Knut Hamsun
You asked me how old I am. I was born roughly nine centuries ago. I've lived for more than three hundred thousand days. And you made this one my favorite one of all. -Uilleam MacRieve ~
~ Kresley Cole
But I realize now that the toughest choices, the ones that will haunt us for the rest of our lives, are ones that my mom is still sheltering me from.
~ Susan Ee, End of Days
Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.
~ W. E. B. Du Bois
God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.
~ yeats william butler iv
The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
~ Yevgeny Zamyatin
McGahern's voice came in: 'I am sure it is from those days that I take the belief that the best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything
~ Yiyun Li
Dreams are but prologue to days, epilogue to other days, written by our faltering minds.
~ Yiyun Li
In the old days, the general's ribbons / & medals rainbowed across his chest, / & if he were interrogating himself, / by now, blood would be on the walls.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
~ zafon carlos ruiz iv
Peter warns us, "Whoever would love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from deceitful speech" (1 PETER 3:10).
~ Deborah Smith Pegues
Seven of those days were pretty good. The eighth day was the bad one.
~ Dennis Hopper
Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.
~ William Shakespeare
Clouds come floating into my life from other days no longer to shed rain or usher storm but to give colour to my sunset sky.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Because at some time in the last five days, I jad freaking fallen in love with John After
~ Jennifer Echols
Reeling, through endless summer days, From inns of molten blue.
~ Emily Dickinson
XXI. A BOOK. He ate and drank the precious words, His spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, Nor that his frame was dust. He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
And then to dwell in sovereign barns, And dream the days away,— The grass so little has to do, I wish I were the hay!
~ Emily Dickinson
He danced along the dingy days, And this bequest of wings Was but a book. What liberty A loosened spirit brings!
~ Emily Dickinson
Guilt was the sooty air we breathed these days.
~ Emma Donoghue
ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflatulence Disorder (not to mention) A Bit Thick.
~ Eoin Colfer