Mornings Quotes

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have. For instance, if you wake up to the sound of twittering birds, and find yourself in an enormous canopy bed, with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of freshly made muffins and hand-squeezed orange juice on a silver tray, you will know that your day will be a splendid one. If you wake up to the sound of church bells, and find yourself in a fairly big regular bed, with a butler standing next to you holding a breakfast of hot tea and toast on a plate, you will know that your day will be O.K. And if you wake up to the sound of somebody banging two metal pots together, and find yourself in a small bunk bed, with a nasty foreman standing in the doorway holding no breakfast at all, you will know that your day will be horrid.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

“There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”
― John Steinbeck

“Mornings are pure evil from the pits of hell, which is why I don't do them anymore." Eve”
― Rachel Caine, Bite Club

“You called me at four thirty-four....I hate four thirty-four. I think four thirty-four should be banned and replaced with something more reasonable, like, say, nine twelve.”
― Darynda Jones, First Grave on the Right

“The alarm in the morning? Well, I have an old tape of Carlo Maria Giulini conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in a perfectly transcendent version in Shubert's seventh symphony. And I've rigged it up so that at exactly 7:30 every morning it falls from the ceiling onto my face.”
― Stephen Fry

“A Thousand Mornings

All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, but only until night
meets and then is overwhelmed by
morning, the light deepening, the
wind easing and just waiting, as I
too wait (and when have I ever been
disappointed?) for redbird to sing”
― Mary Oliver, A Thousand Mornings: Poems

“Mornings are grey. Always the same. Absolutely empty.”
― Osamu Dazai, Schoolgirl

“But you’re human, aren’t you? (Kat)
I’m human, except when I first wake up in the morning. Even I don’t want to be around myself then. (Kish)”
― Sherrilyn Kenyon, Devil May Cry

“Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.”
― Jonathan Swift

“There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might assume such a thing as mythical as those beasts that guard the corners of the earth, but I have it on the finest authority, and have, indeed, from time to time, regarded it with my own eyes.”
― Lauren Willig, The Garden Intrigue

“I yawned and stretched luxuriously in the morning. I make noises when I stretch because it feels ten times better than stretching silently.”
― Kevin Hearne, Hammered

“Sad, slow music in the small hours of the morning isn't just sad and slow music. It's a narration. And through the myriad of morning dew, we are the twinkling stars that fade with the rising sun.”
― Dave Matthes, Sleepeth Not, the Bastard

“So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience.”
― Moss Hart

“Moist groaned. It was the crack of seven and he was allergic to the concept of two seven o'clocks in one day.”
― Terry Pratchett, Raising Steam

“I once met a woman who'd been in therapy... and it seemed like the big thing she'd learned was to ignore everything she thought in the first hour of the day. That's when the negative stuff will try to bring you down, she said, and she was right about that but not much else. You come back from the night with your head and your soul empty, and bad things try to fill you up. There's a lot to get exercised about, if you let it. But if you've got a task, something to fill your head and move your limbs, by the time you've finished it the day has begun ands you're onto the next thing. You're over the hump, like I said.”
― Michael Marshall Smith

“Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.”
― Jagdish Joghee, A Stranger by the Stream: Most Times We Find Love. Sometimes, Love Finds You.

“Life flows easily when you have had laughter for breakfast; meditation for lunch; and nature walk for dinner.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“I left the warehouse at 8.00am. I don't believe in 8.00am. It exists, though. 8.00am is incontrovertible evidence that evil dwells in the world.”
― Andrew Masterson, The Last Days: The Apocryphon of Joe Panther

“Things never look better in the morning. How could they, when nothing ever changes?”
― Rodman Philbrick, The Last Book in the Universe

“Yes, you have to get up early in the morning because the energy of the morning sun is like a match fire that resurrects a dead candle!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“Back then, the mornings were warm and melting, the kind that invited light.”
― Elane Kim, Postcards

“The sunshine coming through your window isn’t a thief, but a special guest.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Night of a Thousand Thoughts

“People in the city think their morning is morning! Go to the countryside for real mornings, go and see what a real morning is like!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“You can wake up to a different morning every morning or to the same morning! The morning is shaped by your mind; life is shaped by your mind! It is your mind that will shape the morning, noon and evening! You are the one who created the same day and the different day!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“But the morning was like a cold ice bath for the dreamer. And it was certainly waking me from my dreamy, kaleidoscope-colored glasses.”
― Brooke Gilbert, The Paris Soulmate

“Do you perambulate at dawn?
The acacia on your right and the jacaranda on the road down the lane.

Mornings in Kathmandu are symphonies.
Tchaikovsky on a Monday, and Beethoven on a Saturday.

What voices speak to you?
Some days I hear the ghosts of extinct bees, and some days I hear the spirits of butterflies.

Today morning I read fragments from the writings of Kafka. Have you read the writings of Kierkegaard?”
― Avijeet Das

“Mornings usually filled him with an existential dread. Just his bad hors d’oeuvres, separate from the main course of the day. What happened after waking usually did precious little to alter those initial impressions; he always felt a little askew, a little asymmetrical like a cubist painting. Shadows were cast through a healthy dose of indifference, with a pervasive lack of interest in anything that didn’t directly affect the world here and now. And it continued like that.”
― Kyle St Germain, Dysfunction

“Early one morning, which is to say about five minutes before noon...”
― Oliver Darkshire, Once Upon a Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller

“Know that every morning you wake up is a wonderful opportunity handed to you on a silver platter to improve your morals, increase your knowledge, treat others better and thus create a much better version of yourself!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan