Days of the Week in Quotes: Sunday

When the week wakes up

The first day of the week is a day for rest and relaxation, and a chance to think about the busyness of the upcoming week. These quotes are about Sundays, and the best ways to spend these lazy days of the week.

1. “Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

2. “A Sunday well spent brings a week of content.” -Unknown

3. “Sunday, the day for the language of leisure.” -Elfriede Jelinek

4. “Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.” -Joseph Addison

5. “It’s not that we spend five days looking forward to just two. It’s that most people do what they enjoy most on those two days. Imagine living a life where every day are your Saturdays and Sundays. Make every day your weekend. Make every day a playday.” -James A. Murphy

6. “The frantic pace of life is only interrupted by the quietness of Sunday.” -Byron Pulsifer

7. “Millions long for immortality who don’t know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.” -Susan Ertz

8. “Sitting with her on Sunday evening — a wet Sunday evening — the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told….” -Jane Austen

9. “Do not waste a single Sunday. If you don’t waste Sundays, you will be less likely to waste Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays.” -Matthew Kelly

10. “Although I understand that all days are equal with 24 hours each, most of us agree that Friday is the longest day of the week and Sunday the shortest!” -D.S. Mixell

11. “Sunday is a time when you sit back and reflect on all the blessings that you have received. Smile at all the good things that you are enjoying.” -Sera Train

12. “Each spice has a special day to it. For turmeric it is Sunday, when light drips fat and butter-colored into the bins to be soaked up glowing, when you pray to the nine planets for love and luck.” -Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

13. “Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.” -Philibert Joseph Roux

14. “I love to go to the zoo. But not on Sunday. I don’t like to see the people making fun of the animals, when it should be the other way around.” -Ernest Hemingway

15. “It was the kind of Sunday to make one ache for Monday morning.” -Joan Didion

16. “I hate Sundays because they give birth to Mondays.” -Chris Southwave

17. “There’s nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.” -Chris Klein

18. “Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.” -Jesse Ball

19. “The city takes a breath on Sunday. Of all that’s lost with the pursuit of what’s next, I hope we don’t lose that….” -Hawksley Workman

20. “But it’s Sunday, Mr. Bell. Clocks are slow on Sundays.” -Truman Capote

21. “Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.” -Albert Schweitzer

22. “Is there any place on Earth that smells better than a laundromat? It’s like a rainy Sunday when you don’t have to get out from under your covers, or like lying back on the grass your father’s just mowed — comfort food for your nose.” -Jodi Picoult

23. “The goal of Sunday is to leave my home as little as possible.” -Mark Morris

24. “Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the silent and invisible life.” -Marilynne Robinson

25. “There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week.” -Henry Ward Beecher

26. “Sundays are like confetti floating in the air in slow motion, in the evening they reach the ground and you hope a bit of wind could blow on them so they could fly a bit longer.” -Alain Bremond-Torrent

27. “Sunday evenings often feel like the weekend is over before it’s even begun.” -Catherine McCormack

28. “A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.” -H.L. Mencken

29. “Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.” -A.D. Posey

30. “Without Sunday, I wouldn’t know when to put on the brakes of a hurtling life.” -Byron Pulsifer

31. “How necessary Sundays have become. I reach for them like sleeping lovers on the other side of my earth or my mattress.” -Darnell Lamont Walker

32. “There is always something new to learn and feel each Sunday.” -Bishop Gerald Causse

33. “I hate Sunday, and I don’t think I’ll ever get over it. But I’m going to try.” -Frank D. Gilroy

34. “This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?” -Kurt Vonnegut

35. “I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.” -George Burns

36. “Sunday is the core of our civilization, dedicated to thought and reverence.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson

37. “My Sunday is a leisure day in which I encourage myself to forget the responsibilities of my workdays and engage honestly with my friends and loved ones.” -Srinivas Mishra

38. “This is your Sunday evening reminder that you can handle whatever this week throws at you.” -Anonymous

39. “O holy Sunday, let your darkness not come along my way. Let her nurture internal and external world, as I start my personal day.” -Santosh Kalwar

40. “If God hadn’t rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.” -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

41. “Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.” -Bill Watterson

42. “Have a great Sunday! Experience life in all possible ways: good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light, summer-winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.” -Osho

43. “The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere — heavy, melancholy, standing still.” -Jean Rhys

44. “Ah, Sunday, the day of rest. Now that’s something to be thankful for!” -Aaron P. Taylor

45. “On Sunday mornings, as the dawn burned into day, swarms of gulls descended on the uncollected trash, hovering and dropping in the cold clear light.” -Edward Conlon

46. “Some essential oils, a nice massage followed by a power nap helps me start my Sunday on the right note. After a week full of running around, this becomes the perfect rejuvenation.” -Ananya Panday

47. “You know what Sunday is, it’s a day with a lot of potential for naps.” -Polly Horvath

48. “Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.” -Benjamin Franklin

49. “You cannot have the beginnings of a productive week without a Sunday spent in the calmness of the day.” -Byron Pulsifer

50. “Saturdays are for adventure; Sundays are for cuddling.” -Unknown

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