MORNING QUOTES V

quotations about morning

Morning is like the tide coming in, washing over the debris of half-finished lives and presenting once again, for this day at least, new opportunities for holiness. It is a kind of sacrament -- a means of grace, if you will -- and like all means of grace, it really does deliver what it promises.

IAN STACKHOUSE

The Day Is Yours


Early morning does not mince words.

JOHN GALSWORTHY

The Forsyte Saga

Tags: John Galsworthy


She says you're not awake until you're actually out of bed and standing up.

RICHELLE MEAD

Blood Promise


Daylight is nobody's friend.
God comes in like a landlord
and flashes on his brassy lamp.

ANNE SEXTON

"You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"

Tags: Anne Sexton


It is only in the morning that one should marry, read unfavourable reviews, make one's will, beat one's servants, and so forth.

E. T. A. HOFFMANN

"Princess Brambilla", The Golden Pot and Other Tales


When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

Tags: John Banville


Of all the things we fashioned for them that they might be comforted, dawn is the one that works. When darkness sifts from the air like fine soft soot and light spreads slowly out of the east then all but the most wretched of humankind rally.

JOHN BANVILLE

The Infinities

Tags: John Banville


Every morning is a blank page awaiting your thoughts, beliefs, and actions. What will you paint today? Or what will you burn into existence with your thoughts, feelings, intentions, and the sanctified force of follow-through.

KIRK BYRON JONES

Morning B.R.E.W.


I want to live my life in such a way that when I get out of bed in the morning, the devil says, "aw shit, he's up!"

STEVE MARABOLI

Unapologetically You


What irritates me most of all about these morning people is their horribly good temper, as if they have been up for three hours and already conquered France.

TIMUR VERMES

Er is wieder da


He got out of bed and peeped through the blinds. To the east and opposite to him gardens and an apple-orchard lay, and there in strange liquid tranquility hung the morning star, and rose, rilling into the dusk of night the first grey of dawn. The street beneath its autumn leaves was vacant, charmed, deserted.

WALTER DE LA MARE

The Return

Tags: Walter de la Mare


Morning is wonderful. Its only drawback is that it comes at such an inconvenient time of day.

GLEN COOK

Sweet Silver Blues

Tags: Glen Cook


The grey-ey'd morn smiles on the frowning night,
Chequering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Romeo and Juliet

Tags: William Shakespeare


Morning will find us curled beside the graves
we dug, without strength to roll ourselves in.

CALVIN BEDIENT

"Modern Love", The Violence of the Morning: Poems


Does not the morn break thus,
Swift, bright, victorious.

EMMA LAZARUS

"Matins"

Tags: Emma Lazarus


But the morning is a time for exultant expressions, for then the soul awakens with all nature and rises in rapturous praise over blessings which it is our daily lot to enjoy.

J. M. H.

"Morning Meditations", The Bay View Magazine, Volume 17


A bright morning may bring a dark night.

LEONHARD FUCHS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Morn in the white wake of the morning star
Came furrowing all the orient into gold.

ALFRED TENNYSON

The Princess

Tags: Alfred Tennyson


Enormous morning, ponderous, meticulous;
gray light streaking each bare branch,
each single twig, along one side,
making another tree, of glassy veins.

ELIZABETH BISHOP

"Five Flights Up"

Tags: Elizabeth Bishop


The morning hour has gold in its mouth.

CHILO

attributed, Day's Collacon