Just Getting Through The Day Quotes

#1. Habit is a good thing for the human race ... You have to spend so much energy just getting through the day when you have no habits that you don't have any left for productive labor.

Marilyn French

#2. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.

Ellen Goodman

#3. I would like to be able to say that I came back from this by just simply getting up from the sofa and rolling up my sleeves ... but I didn't. I could not even take things days by day. In realistic terms I fought to make it through the day - 5 minutes at a time.

Gisela Hausmann

#4. The chandelier was wearing on its rubber support and the crack at the side of the ceiling hold was getting bigger. "One day that's going to fall on us and spear you through the heart," he said. I turned to kiss him on the shoulder and closed my eyes.

Kate Chisman

#5. That day, getting through my world was like trying to swim in a pool of warm mayonnaise while carrying two bowling balls.

Anonymous

#6. For the longest time all I cared about was getting through the day. When your every breath was an effort, that quickly became the extent of your expectations.

A Meredith Walters

#7. Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Eknath Easwaran

#8. Who cares what we dream about? Just getting through each day is hard enough.

Inio Asano

#9. Sometimes just getting through each day requires almost superhuman strength.

Jojo Moyes

#10. If in large part we were concerned only with making it through another day without getting laid off, there was a smaller part just hoping to leave for the night without contributing to someone's lifetime of hurt.

Joshua Ferris

#11. Lucia couldn't deny it. Cleo was getting to her, breaking through that dark wall that surrounded her. Believe in magic. Believe in the impossible. Believe, tentatively, in this fragile new friendship with Cleo. And believe that one day she'd see Alexius again.

Morgan Rhodes

#12. because lying down and letting life walk over you was harder in the end. Getting through a bad day took less out of her than ignoring it until it built up into a crisis.

V.C. Lancaster

#13. At a normal high school, having class outside on a gorgeous May day is usually pretty awesome. It means sitting in the sunshine, maybe reading some poetry, letting the breeze blow through your hair ... At Hecate Hall, a.k.a. Juvie for Monsters, it meant I was getting thrown in the pond.

Rachel Hawkins

#14. You don't have to make something that people call art. Living is an artistic activity, there is an art to getting through the day.

Viggo Mortensen

#15. A day might be just twenty-four hours but sometimes getting through just one seems as impossible as scaling Everest.

Gayle Forman

#16. Jesus Christ. He was wearing a suit for once, a dark gray ensemble that looked tailored to fit his wide shoulders, full arms, slim hips, and muscular thighs. How the hell did he go through the day without getting slipped a Rohypnol by every woman he came in contact with?

Mariana Zapata

#17. To fight my enemies I need friends behind me, and I'm clean out of friends. You have to be realistic. It's been a while since my ambitions went beyond getting through each day alive.

Joe Abercrombie

#18. One of the secrets of getting more done is to make a TO DO List every day, keep it visible, and use it as a guide to action as you go through the day.

Alan Lakein

#19. I think that the so-called average person often exhibits a great deal of heroism in getting through an ordinary day ...

Harvey Pekar

#20. Getting up every day and going through this again and again is hard.

Charles Manson

#21. For me and my wife ... the easiest part of my life is my marriage. Like if everything was as smooth and easy and fun as my relationship with my wife then I would have a much easier time getting through the day. We really get along and we like the same stuff.

Seth Rogen

#22. I exhale a highway of smoke and stare down it, then say, Each day has just been survival, just getting through, standing it.
Don't you see how savage that sounds? Like, that's the way men in prison yards think. You live in a rich suburb and teach literature.

Mary Karr

#23. My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#24. Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

Joel Miller

#25. Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'

Vidya Balan

#26. Because happiness itself is a mythical construct, a dream you humans tell yourselves to get through each day. It is the moon, and you, like the sun, pursue it relentlessly, chasing it around and around, getting nowhere.

Jessica Khoury

#27. With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.

Phil Anselmo

#28. I live in a room and I go to work and I play a game called getting through the day while you wait for the night.

Lillian Hellman

#29. I've always liked the idea of memoirs, going into someone else's life, going through someone else's day and getting out of your own head.

Isabel Gillies

#30. That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.

Gregory Galloway

#31. I went through a very lethargic period ... I was just sort of getting through every night and every day.

Patty Duke

#32. My main question that I ask of my characters is, 'What does it feel like to be you? And how do you get through the day? Where do you find the hope and faith to endure getting through the days, and what are your days like?'

Stewart O'Nan

#33. The other day at a drive-through, I reminded the teenage girl serving me that she forgot my drinks. She looked at me, hissed, rolled her eyes, and then took her sweet time getting me the sodas.

Neil Cavuto

#34. Some days are for living. Others are for getting through.

Malcolm Forbes