Diaries Quotes - Page 4

Like society, the diary is a world of useless secrets. Everything is there, yet there is nothing.

There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.

I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

Dates in Calendar are Closer Than They Appear! Time is what keeps everything from happening at once. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.

My diary is a disaster...I can't spell at all...I'll spell the same word completely differently in the same sentence.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory.

[Benjamin] Franklin may be a great philosopher, [John Adams] told his diary in 1779, but "as a Legislator in America he has done very little."

I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.

I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels.

The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the heightened moments because they are the moments of revelation.

And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.

A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.

For me, my music has always been like an open diary.

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?