These worst mornings with cold floors and hot windows and merciless light - the soul's certainty that the day will have to be not traversed but sort of climbed, vertically, and then that going to sleep again at the end of it will be like falling, again, off something tall and sheer.

It’s nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.

Some days are like that...and what's to be done about it? Nothing, alas, but hope things will brighten, which they very likely won't. But there you are, it's all one can do.

"People always tell me "Have a nice day." Well what if I don't want to? What if I want to have a crappy day?"

He was very ugly but people can't help the faces they're born with.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience — unless they are still up.

They're ugly, but those are the facts of life.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience— unless they are still up.

It is our destiny to be born beautiful into an ugly age.

Some people are born ugly. It's not their fault, and I for one have never held it against a man that he is ugly. but others — and I count myself among them — are born with handsome features. That's a gift that should not be lightly taken away.

What a bad day it was, the clouds were low and cloudy, the rain no fun, and the dark as it hit the late afternoon thick like someone who stops by your place and just won't leave. The day was canceled, almost, on account of the rain spilling itself over everything.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience, unless they are still up.

Maybe you don't like your job. Maybe you didn't get enough sleep. Nobody likes their job; nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life. You know there's no escape and there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.

When each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.