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Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality. John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra
I try to get up every day. Jimi Hendrix, interview Dick Cavett 1969
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to. Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colours. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities. Dean Koontz, Midnight
The day, like the previous days, dragged sluggishly by in a kind of insipid idleness, devoid even of that dreamy expectancy which can make idleness so enchanting. Vladimir Nabokov, Mary
It is early, early morning. It’s that time when it’s still dark but you know the day is coming. Blue is bleeding through black. Stars are dying. Markus Zusak, Underdog
1990: Cliff Richard: Saviour’s Day. The Christmas No.1 Story, BBC 2012
1994: E17: Stay Another Day. ibid.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Ernest Dowson
We all need something to help us unwind at the end of the day. You might have a glass of wine, or a joint, or a big delicious blob of heroin to silence your silly brainbox of its witterings but there has to be some form of punctuation, or life just seems utterly relentless. Russell Brand, My Booky Wook
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. e e cummings
Every dog must have his day. Jonathan Swift
Every day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue, to be said fifteen to twenty times morning and evening
Go ahead, make my day. Sudden Impact 1983 starring Clint Eastwood & Sondra Locke & Pat Hingle & Bradford Dillman & Paul Drake & Albert Popwell & Audrie J Neenan & Jack Thibeau & Michael Currie & Michael V Gazzo & Mark Keyloun & Kevyn Major Howard et al, director Clint Eastwood, Harry Callaghan
A traveller from the cradle to the grave
Through the dim night of this immoral day. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Prometheus Unbound
‘This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.’ Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Hide me from day’s garish eye. John Milton, Il Penseroso
Yet still the solitary cliffs
Wheeled by me – even as if the earth had rolled
With visible motion on her diurnal round! William Wordsworth, Influence of Natural Objects, 1809
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you. Horace, Odes
Carpe diem; quam minimum credula postero. [Seize the day; put no trust in the morrow]. ibid.
On days like these. Don Black lyrics, music Quincy Jones, sung Matt Monro, featured 1969 The Italian Job
Every day should be passed as if it would be our last. Publilius Syrus
Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance. Samuel Johnson
The day is committed to error and floundering; success and achievement are matters of long rage. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived. Winston Churchill
Transient lustre, beauteous clay,
Smiling wonder of a day. Mehetabel Wright, 1697-1750, To an Infant Expiring the Second Day of its Birth, 1733
Every day brings something new ... From the nerve-racking to the mundane. Bill Cooper
We asked people around the world to film their lives and answer a few simple questions. We received 4,500 hours of video from 192 countries. All of it shot on a single day: 24th July 2010. Life in a Day
It’s Groundhog Day. Groundhog Day 1993 starring Bill Murray & Andie MacDowell & Chris Elliott & Stephen Tobolowsky & Angela Paton & Brian Doyle-Murray & Rick Ducommun & Rick Overton & Robin Duke & Marita Geraghty & Harold Ramis & Willie Garson & Ken Hudson Campbell et al, director Harold Ramis, radio news
Rita, I’m re-living the same day over and over. Groundhog Day. Today. ibid. Connors
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day
Is crept into the bosom of the sea. William Shakespeare, II Henry VI IV i 1
The dismall’st day is this that er’re I saw. William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus I i 381
69,407. Accursed, unhappy, wretched, hateful day! William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet IV iv 74, Capulet’s wife
O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!
Most lamentable day! Most woeful day
That ever, ever, I did yet behold!
O day, O day, O day, O hateful day,
Never was so black a day as this!
O woeful day, O woeful day! ibid. IV iv 80-85, Nurse
How bloody the sun begins to peer
Above yon bulky hill! The day looks pale
At his distemp’rature. William Shakespeare, I Henry IV V i 1-3, King Henry to Prince Harry et al
My day is dim. William Shakespeare, II Henry IV IV iii 229, King Henry to Prince Harry
We burn daylight. William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor II i 54
Look, the gentle day,
Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about
Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing V iii 25
We are but warriors for the working day. The Hollow Crown: Henry V starring Tim Hiddleston & Geraldine Chaplin & Paul Freeman & Julie Walters & John Hurt & Tom Georgeson & Richard Griffiths & Paterson Joseph & James Laurenson et al, director Thea Sharrock, BBC 2012
The day is yours. ibid.
O! that a man might know
The end of this day’s business, ere it come;
But it sufficeth that the day will end,
And then the end is known. William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar V i 123
So foul and fair a day I have not seen. William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth I iii 36, Macbeth
Come what come may,
Time and hour runs through the roughest day. ibid. I iii 146
For we, which now behold these present days,
Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 106
We are truly living in the last days; there is no doubt in my mind about that. We are in the last days. But the last years of what? ... We are very quickly arriving at a place where we are going to confront our God. Jordan Maxwell, Forbidden Knowledge