Classic literary quotes to get you through Monday

Lidia Simoes
Mar 12, 2016
2 min read

When Monday gets you down, think like these literary geniuses and nothing will stop you.

6:30 a.m. I don’t want to wake up. It’s going to be such a long day. *Uhhhh*

“The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.”

– Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop

8 a.m. I hate traffic and I hate that it takes me an hour to get to work. I wish I was still in school. Those were the days. I could walk 10 minutes to get to class.

“I can't go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”

– Lewis Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

9 a.m. I didn’t get the promotion I wanted.

"There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."

– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park

12 p.m. My coworker keeps putting me down. I know my ideas are good but he makes me so unsure of myself.

“Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not.”

– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

2:30 p.m. The caffeine has officially worn out. How am I ever going to get through two and a half more hours of work?

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”

– Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

4 p.m. Work is almost over. I could try and finish this project or I could just go on Facebook and Buzzfeed for another hour.

“My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time.”

– Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

8 p.m. Should I go out with my friends or stay in and watch Netflix?

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”

– Stephen King, The Shawshank Redemption

8:30 p.m. Apparently my friends didn’t want to go out with me, they just wanted to set me up on a blind date. This person is okay. I don’t know if it will work though, they don’t have a six pack.

“If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.”

– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

11 p.m. I’m laying in bed, unable to sleep and worrying about my future. “Am I good enough?” “Will I make it?”

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”

– Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!