Quotes on Early Morning

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.

The best ideas I've had in my life are those I saw in my sleep, in the early morning.

I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early morning ones, and there is dew on the grass, and the day is forever unproved, where I might have a fertile unknown for a soil about me.

It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.

Whether I retire to bed early or late, I rise with the sun.

The early morning belongs to the Church of the risen Christ. At the break of light it remembers the morning on which death and sin lay prostrate in defeat and new life and salvation were given to mankind

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep.

Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.

Years after I'd seen him for the last time I found myself thinking of him unexpectedly and often. You know how certain places grow powerful in the mind with passing time. In those early morning dreams when I come back to bed after a sleepy pee and fall quickly into the narrow end of the night, there is one set of streets I keep returning to, one dim mist of railroad rooms and certain figures reappear, borderline ghosts.

I wake up every morning at nine and grab for the morning paper. Then I look at the obituary page. If my name is not on it, I get up.