Journals Diaries Quotes

#1. Over the last two years, I have been able to comb through The Prince's archives. I have been free to read his journals, diaries and many thousands of the letters.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#2. I lived in Calcutta for five months in 1999. While I was there, I read many journals, diaries, collections of letters and histories.

Susanna Moore

#3. I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.

Sylvia Plath

#4. Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.

Tracy Chapman

#5. 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.

Erica Jong

#6. to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.

Sylvia Plath

#7. When I moved, I unearthed the diaries I kept for ten years. I sat and went through them and they were a worthless burden to own. People will say it's tragic I threw them out, but I know it isn't.

Bill Callahan

#8. I can only hazard. In the back of my mind there are bombs falling, women and children screaming, but I can't describe it now.

Sylvia Plath

#9. Your test had cheese meteor questions? - Bex to Liz.

Ally Carter

#10. but the very content that comes from finding yourself is overshadowed by the knowledge that by doing so you are admitting you are not only a grotesque, but a special kind of grotesque.

Sylvia Plath

#11. There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.

Sylvia Plath

#12. Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best.

Sylvia Plath

#13. If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.

David Sedaris

#14. Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.

I open my mouth
and dust spills out
instead of feelings.

Dust, and the yellow
wings of moths,
and brittle paper,

scrawled over
with riddles that
lack solutions.

Gabriel Gadfly

#15. Whether it's college or WNBA, its basketball and the more you play the less you need to adjust.

Diana Taurasi

#16. We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

John Calvin

#17. The laws have become so straight-jacketing that presidents and their aides dare not keep journals or diaries, lest they be subpoenaed by avid special prosecutors.

Christopher Buckley

#18. Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we've thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.

Rob Bignell, Editor

#19. I remember keeping a lot of journals and diaries and trying to form a complete thought just based off of those immediate, raw feelings. If anything, I was conscious about how I just always wanted to be as honest as possible, no matter how vulnerable it would make me seem.

Gallant

#20. I am I because of that.

Sylvia Plath

#21. These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. They will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.

Anonymous

#22. There was something wonderful about a blank sheet of notepaper. The lines were there, just waiting to be filled, and the page could turn into anything from a grocery list to the opening of The Great American Novel. The possibilities were endless.

Joanne Fluke

#23. An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#24. It was inestimably important for me to look at the lights of Amherst town in the rain, with the wet black tree-skeletons against the limpid streetlights and gray November mist, and then look at the boy beside me and feel all the hurting beauty go flat because he wasn't the right one-not at all.

Sylvia Plath