quotations about morning
Be pleasant until ten o'clock in the morning and the rest of the day will take care of itself.
ELBERT HUBBARD
A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
Each morning the day lies like a fresh shirt on our bed; this incomparably fine, incomparably tightly woven tissue of pure prediction fits us perfectly. The happiness of the next twenty-four hours depends on our ability, on waking, to pick it up.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Reflections
Morning drew on apace. The air became more sharp and piercing, as its first dull hue: the death of night, rather than the birth of day: glimmered faintly in the sky. The objects which had looked dim and terrible in the darkness, grew more and more defined, and gradually resolved into their familiar shapes.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oliver Twist
The light of morning decomposes everything.
HARUKI MURAKAMI
A Wild Sheep Chase
Oh, some scholar! Oh, some sailor!
Oh, some wise man from the skies!
Please to tell a little pilgrim
Where the place called morning lies!
EMILY DICKINSON
"Out of the Morning"
You wake up in the morning, and lo! your purse is magically filled with twenty-four hours of the unmanufactured tissue of the universe of your life! It is yours. It is the most precious of possessions.
ARNOLD BENNETT
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
The sky rejoices in the morning's birth.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Resolution and Independence
No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be.
BRAM STOKER
Dracula
There is nowhere morning does not go.
LEAH HAGER COHEN
Glass, Paper, Beans: Revolutions on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things
Spill not the morning, the quintessence of the day, in recreation; for sleep itself is a recreation. Add not, therefore, sauce to sauces.
THOMAS FULLER
The Holy State
These hours before first light were merciless. You could not go back to sleep and it was too early to get up and the things you had done or not done lay in your mind immovable as misshapen things you'd erected from stone.
WILLIAM GAY
Provinces of Night
Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Walden
Everybody knows the morning, in its metaphorical sense, applied to so many objects, and on so many occasions. The health, strength, and beauty of early years, lead us to call that period the "morning of life." Of a lovely young woman, we say, she is "bright as the morning," and no one doubts why Lucifer is called "son of the morning." But the morning itself, few people, inhabitants of cities, know anything about. Among all our good people of Boston, not one in a thousand sees the sun rise once a year. They know nothing of the morning. Their idea of it is, that it is that part of the day which comes along after a cup of coffee and a beefsteak, or a piece of toast. With them, morning is not a new issuing of light; a new bursting forth of the sun; a new waking up of all that has life, from a sort of temporary death, to behold again the works of God, the heavens and the earth; it is only a part of the domestic day, belonging to breakfast, to reading the newspapers, answering notes, sending the children to school, and giving orders for dinner.
DANIEL WEBSTER
letter to Mrs. Paige, April 29, 1847
A day! It has risen upon us from the great deep of eternity, girt round with wonder; emerging from the womb of darkness; a new creation of life and light spoken into being by the word of God.
E. H. CHAPIN
Living Words
And sudden day unbuttoned her blouse.
JOHN ASHBERY
"The Suspended Life", The Tennis Court Oath: A Book of Poems
Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels
RICHARD WILBUR
"Love Calls Us to the Things of This World", Collected Poems
We cannot live in the afternoon of life according to the program of life's morning. For what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true, will at evening have become a lie.
CARL JUNG
attributed, Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing
Day is a snow-white Dove of heaven that from the East glad message brings.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH
"Day and Night"
The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
Garden Spells
DAWN! thou hast every possibility of life! What canst thou not reveal to man in thy flaming sky?
ELISE PUMPELLY CABOT
"Arizona"