Top 100 Quotes About Diary
#1. As St. Faustina writes, "The miracles of mercy are impenetrable. Neither the sinner nor the just one will fathom them" (Diary, 1215).
Vinny Flynn
#2. This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice.
Anais Nin
#3. You see, things being good has nothing to do with how you feel outside, it is all to do with how you are inside.
Helen Fielding
#4. In a day and age when, unfortunately, so few write letters or keep a diary any longer, the Wright Papers stand as a striking reminder of a time when that was not the way and of the immense value such writings can have in bringing history to life.
David McCullough
#5. My diary seems to keep me whole.
Anais Nin
#6. Beauvoir was untouched by the criticisms; her diary was a record of one consciousness, her own: "This is what I saw and how I saw it. I have not tried to say more.
Alice Kaplan
#7. I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
#8. I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media.
Julia Woodman
#9. To describe a kiss is to describe a diary entry or a pair of underwear - each is personal and private, slightly awkward. Very awkward. But necessary.
Caroline George
#10. In 'Diary,' the motto really is: 'Where Do You Get Your Inspiration?' It coaches us to be aware of our motives and not just be a reaction to the circumstances around us.
Chuck Palahniuk
#11. He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler
Soren Kierkegaard
#12. For years and years I carried these notebooks around with me - I had hundreds of pages of notes, these fragments that consisted of biographical anecdotes, diary passages, critical rants, agitations, scenes of my marriage.
Kate Zambreno
#13. Drink, drink! Bacchus is the enemy of Venus.
"From The Diary Of An Orange Tree
Hanns Heinz Ewers
#14. In the early '90s, I wrote a play called 'Word of Mouth' in which I played a number of different characters. One was a thirteen-year-old boy who, through a series of diary entries, realizes that he's gay.
James Lecesne
#15. Man is adept at navigating the globe and beyond - yet doubt finding his own destiny
Gino Norris
#16. Dear Diary,
Oh, it's all too much to explain and you wouldn't believe it anyway. I'm going to bed.
Bonnie
L.J.Smith
#18. Dear Diary,
Today I met a boy
He stole my heart...
And won't give it back
Lyric
#20. Kate was reading through a long diary entry about the first time Katherine
and Matthew had met. Katherine had apparently fallen deeply in lust on the very spot. The entry used the words "delectable,""buttocks," and "I want to bite them.
Lauren James
#21. Scuse me diary ... gotta take care of a pressing problem in my jeans right now.
Same day - later.
What? At least I didn't come over your nice, clean pages, right?
K.C. Wells
#22. Memory is the diary we all carry about with us.
Oscar Wilde
#23. The moment I was introduced to my wife, Emma, at a party I thought, here she is - and 20 minutes later I told her she ought to marry me. She thought I was as mad as a rat. She wouldn't even give me her telephone number - and she wrote in her diary: 'A funny little man asked me to marry him.'
Julian Fellowes
#24. Just before I auditioned for 'The X Factor,' there was nothing in my diary at all. I had no shows; nothing was happening. It was make-or-break time for me, and I had to consider doing another career altogether.
Fleur East
#25. Our objects, bibelots, whatnots, and knickknacks-say the most about who we are. They are as honest as a diary.
Charlotte Moss
#26. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
Enoch Powell
#27. I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.
Ann Rinaldi
#28. I can follow pretty much every programming language out there, I can make a two-hundred-year-old diary out of some really nasty ingredients, I can even make sense out of the instruction booklets that come with IKEA furniture, but I can*not* make heads or tails of this nonsense right here.
Keith R.A. DeCandido
#29. Yesterday the paper had a "short" summary of the places where Jews are not allowed! I can better mention where they are still aloud: "in their houses and in the streets!" God, punish those who are persecuting the people you chose and to whom Jesus also belonged. -From the diary of Diet Eman
Diet Eman
#30. The girl lives in a beautiful dollhouse made of stone, I wrote one time in my diary when I was young, my handwriting shaky but sure. But underneath her shining plastic smile, there are only screams.
Amy Lukavics
#31. There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.
Bruce Schneier
#32. Don't worry, even if you fall over! It's all right. You can just pick yourself up again!
When you fall over, make the most of the chance to look up and see the sky.
You will see the blue sky spreading endlessly above you and smiling down.
Aya, you are alive!
Aya Kito
#33. The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
Tony Benn
#34. A blog is neither a diary nor a journal. Many people think of blogging in relation to those two things, confessional or practical. It is neither but includes elements of both.
Lemn Sissay
#35. Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an attempt at distance and sanity, a means of recalling normality.
Jasmina Tesanovic
#36. Exercise II.
Write a diary, imagining that you are trying to make an old person jealous. I have written an example to get you started:
Dear Diary,
I spent the morning admiring my skin elasticity.
God alive, I feel supple.
Joe Dunthorne
#37. Today was very full, but the problem isn't today. It's tomorrow. I'd be able to recover from today if it weren't for tomorrow. There should be extra days, buffer days, between real days.
Sarah Manguso
#38. Since Winston cannot express himself openly in society for fear of punishment, the diary becomes an important medium for him to express his true feelings about the state and the Party.
Trisha Lively
#39. The fact is, I have been dead so long and it has been simply such a grim shoving of the hours behind me ... since the hideous summer of '78, when I went down to the deep sea, its dark waters closed over me and I knew neither hope nor peace.
Alice James
#40. I would rather have someone read my diary than look at my iPod playlists.
Mindy Kaling
#41. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
Mae West
#42. You need a companion for your thought process, than a physical relationship.
Rajasaraswathii
#43. Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.
Nikki Sixx
#44. Say, did you read what this writer just dug up in George Washington's diary? I was so ashamed I sat up all night reading it.
Will Rogers
#45. For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.
Bram Stoker
#46. I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically.
Amber Heard
#47. The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.
Guillermo Del Toro
#49. I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.
Lenny Kravitz
#50. I don't keep an ongoing dribble of updates of my day, but I tell little compartmentalized stories every day on Snapchat. I use it much more like making a movie than maintaining a diary. When people watch my 60-second clips, there's a beginning, middle, and end.
Casey Neistat
#51. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
#53. Maybe one day I will meet her in real life. Her tears were my rain, her angry was thunder and lighting. I knew when it rained. I was doing something wrong, when It thundered I knew I had to write about her to make her happy. The Diary
Jeremy Limn
#54. Reiko had not kept a diary and was now denied the pleasure of assiduously rereading her record of the happiness of the past few months and consigning each page to the fire as she did so.
- Death in Midsummer and Other Stories
Yukio Mishima
#55. I had a lot of songs and words and scenes stuck inside of me. So Jacknife encouraged me to bring them all out. So, in essence, 'You and Others' is my diary.
Johnny McDaid
#56. I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.
Louise Bourgeois
#57. I shall grow accustomed to the dark far easier than he to the light.
Jennifer Lynch
#58. I filled my sketchbook with drawings, very much as any educated girl of my generation might have kept a diary.
Gabriele Munter
#59. If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
David Sedaris
#60. I sketch while I'm on set, and it's a way for me to record all of the locations I've been to. I don't keep a diary but a sketchbook.
Jessalyn Gilsig
#61. I looked up the word "scandal" in my dictionary last night. No wonder there has been such a fuss.
Paula M. Hunter
#62. Oh, to be laughed at when I have the courage to speak my heart. I don't want to live in a world like this."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata
#64. I feel like I'm naked in front of the crowd, 'cause these words are my diary, screaming out loud.
Anna Nalick
#65. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.
Anne Frank
#66. Luce,' she says, 'I don't want my diary entry tomorrow to be: Stayed out all night. Went to prison. I have this urge to go home and watch TV with my parents and be completely boring.
Cath Crowley
#67. Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)
Erin Gruwell
#68. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!
Anne Frank
#69. Her paintings formed a visual diary, an outward manifestation of her inward dialog that was, all too often, a scream of pain.
Gerry Souter
#70. Set your end goal ... the steps in between - is your path
Gino Norris
#71. The line between the allure of liberty and the menace of of anarchy is often blurred." From: Caspian Diary
J.M. Sandler
#72. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
Anne Frank
#73. I want to be the star in your diary" -Shawn, Fade to White
N.L. Churney
#74. The tragedy of hindsight is that it always come too late.
Marilyn L. Rice
#76. by structuring it in your life as a musical diary or log, you can control your feelings and change them on a dime if you need to.
Chris Hardwick
#77. Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.
Jo Walton
#79. The poets and philosophers I once loved had it wrong. Death does not come to us all, nor does the passage of time dim our memories and reduce our bodies to dust. Because while I was considered dead, and a headstone had been engraved with my name, in truth my life was just beginning.
Kevin Williamson
#80. It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
Karl Pilkington
#81. Self-criticism is a way of life in North Korea. Everybody has to do it, even the highest party members. Our sessions were once a week on Monday mornings. All through the week, we were supposed to keep a diary, where we wrote about the times we failed to live up to Kim Il-sung's teachings.
Charles Robert Jenkins
#82. I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing.
Anne Frank
#83. Yes, our old age is not going to be sunny orchard drowse. By shutting down the fire curtain, though, I find I can live in the moment; which is good; why yield a moment to regret or envy or worry? Why indeed? (24 December 1940)
Virginia Woolf
#84. [Bram Stoker] wrote in his diary: Must be President some day. A man you can't cajole, can't frighten, can't buy.
Edmund Morris
#85. Plants and flowers of the commonest kind can form a pleasing diary, because nothing which calls back to us the remembrance of a happy moment can be insignificant.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#86. I've been making a diary of the daft things people have said during London Fashion Week, and it does wear a little bit thin, everyone comparing my name to Edie Sedgwick.
Edie Campbell
#87. Film is like a personal diary, a notebook or a monologue by someone who tries to justify himself before a camera.
Jean-Luc Godard
#88. I'm so tired of waiting to grow up. Someday it will happen and I'll be the only person who can make me feel good or bad about anything I do.
Jennifer Lynch
#89. Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary.
Hillary Clinton
#90. My diary became more than a place to record daily events. It became a friend, the paper that it was made of was ready and willing to accept anything and everything I had to say.
Zlata Filipovic
#91. At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.
Nigel Hamilton
#92. For me, my music has always been like an open diary.
Wade Bowen
#93. I'm a slave to this leaf in a diary that lists what I must do, what I must say, every half hour.
Golda Meir
#94. Avery had sixth and seventh and eighth senses and could tell more from the way someone stood or said "see you later" than Mel could if she stole the person's diary and read it cover to cover.
Maureen Johnson
#95. Although I had never known anything but poverty, I knew that no amount of wealth could diminish my shame." From: Caspian Diary
J.M. Sandler
#96. Being acknowledged by 'Vogue' and invited to do 'Today I'm Wearing' was a really great moment for me, and the photo diary of my outfits was a really fun thing to do.
Suki Waterhouse
#97. A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful-then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.
William Allingham
#98. Later that evening in my diary, I wrote: I was exagerrating when I said I thought you hated the piece. What I meant to say was: I thought you hated me. I was hoping you'd persuade me of the opposite - and you did, for a while. Why won't I believe it tomorrow morning?
Andre Aciman
#99. The diary was evidence; it was - it might be - corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump-start something - though I had no idea what.
Julian Barnes
#100. I picked up the guitar very late, in a very pagan way - I didn't know how to play, but I knew I had to. I drew and I had a diary, but it wasn't enough; I needed to express more. As soon as I learned two notes, I started to tell a story, which is why, I guess, my music resembles blues or folk.
Lou Doillon
