Diary Quotes
Diary Quotes
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one’s movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
A. C. Benson
When all is said and done, leading a good life is more important than keeping a good diary.
Anonymous
A proper family diary with everyone’s events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
Anthea Turner
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.
Caitlin Flanagan
Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.
Douglas Pagels
Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.
E.L. Doctorow
To write a diary every day is like returning to one’s own vomit.
Enoch Powell
Keeping a journal implies hope.
Erica Jong
As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy the diary is pretty full.
Evelyn Glennie
One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.
Franz Kafka
A journal should be neither an echo nor a pander.
George William Curtis
The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
James Matthew Barrie
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous.
Joe Dunthorne
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
John Robert Fowles
A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.
Lawrence Durrell
Keep a diary, and someday it’ll keep you.
Mae West
Oh, this is a dear diary moment.
Matthew Perry
Making records should be fun.
Noel Gallagher
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
All records are made to be broken.
Red Auerbach
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Rev. George Dawson
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterward.
Robert A. Heinlein
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile a stain upon the silence.
Samuel Beckett
Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.
Spencer W. Kimball
Everyone should have a form of a diary, it’s a great release.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
You may be keeping a diary of your thoughts but know that, in every religion, the God you believe is keeping a diary of your actions.
Steve Maraboli
History is the diary of humankind; to forget it is to try to navigate the future with no memory of the past.
T.L. Rese
A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.
Wallace Stevens
A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
William Soutar