Top 100 S Diary Quotes
#1. I think everyone should read Governor William Bradford's diary.
Ann Rinaldi
#2. 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
#3. If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.
David Sedaris
#4. 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
#5. I note however that this diary writing does not count as writing, since I have just re-read my year's diary and am much struck by the rapid haphazard gallop at which it swings along, sometimes indeed jerking almost intolerably over the cobbles.
Virginia Woolf
#6. I read my sister's diary when I was 7. She was, I think, 13. It was awful to read it.
Jack Gleeson
#7. If you read someone else's diary, you get what you deserve.
David Sedaris
#8. My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.
Oscar Wilde
#10. Adrian Mole's diary
Easter
Poor Jesus, it must have been dead awful for him. I wouldn't have the guts to do it myself.
Sue Townsend
#11. Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary.
It Mattered.
Caroline B. Cooney
#12. There have been seasons of my life when rejection rained down. And then there have been typhoons. Kimberly Rossi's Diary
Richard Paul Evans
#13. Everyone should keep someone else's diary.
Oscar Wilde
#14. Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
Mary Gaitskill
#15. The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. --- Charles James's Diary
Richard Paul Evans
#16. Life is a house of cards, balanced on a tetter-totter,
precariously perched on a roller coaster.
The only thing that should surprise us about our surprises is that we are surprised by them.
Beth Cardall's Diary
Richard Paul Evans
#17. Is that a page from the dastardly villain's diary?" Maldynado asked. "One carelessly dropped that conveniently reveals the secret to destroying these vile artifacts?" "It's an invoice." "Villains get bills?
Lindsay Buroker
#18. Klaus Mann saw very clearly how different was his own (more liberated) form of homosexuality from the same-sex attractions of his father - and that is reiterated in TM's diary queries about "how two men can sleep together".
Philip Kitcher
#19. A LL THE ENTRIES in Freud's diary of his last decade are short. Very few are more than one line long.
Clive James
#20. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
Nelson Mandela
#21. Jeff Kinney's 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' series and Stephenie Meyer's 'Twilight' books got 49,323,701 kids reading.
Jon Scieszka
#22. To deny our pasts is to burn the bridge we must cross to self-understanding. Alan Christoffersen's diary
Richard Paul Evans
#23. I really love 'Bridget Jones's Diary' - and I love the book, too. You wonder how it ever got made into a movie. She's supposed to be chubby, and two of the hottest guys ever are straight-up fighting over her?
Mindy Kaling
#24. We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary
Richard Paul Evans
#25. A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.
John Quincy Adams
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.
Enoch Powell
#30. 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
#31. The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.
Tony Benn
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Aujourd'hui, rien.
That's what Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day of the storming of the Bastille.
Jo Walton
#37. It's not easy keeping a diary. You have to be pretty committed.
Karl Pilkington
#38. 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
#39. I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.
Anne Frank
#40. Everyone keeps looking on their defects. It's not like everyone's perfect, we all are are ugly and at the same time beautiful. It's just how we should carry and believe in ourselves. Nasa attitude yan, wala sa hitsura
HaveYouSeenThisGirL
#41. I just want people to feel the emotion that's in the record. For me it's very raw and beautiful, I guess it's kind of like a diary for me. I'd love for people to be able to listen to it and it make them dance and cry and the same time.
Charli XCX
#42. December 29, 1946: Snowing this morning. The year seems to be dying in a light white blanket. Only three more days of this year, then comes a new one. Then, what? No one knows.
Diary of Bertha Kate Gaddis who passed away 6 months later, age 78, West Lafayette, IN.
Angie Klink
#43. [Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down.
Virginia Woolf
#44. Take this story to great heart; read through its' every word; and I hope and pray that in the end, as you enter the last phases of this story, it will move you, touch you profoundly, and guide you to the meaning of True Love.
C. David Murphy
#45. A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.
William Soutar
#46. I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.
Judi Dench
#47. Something's getting in the way something's just about to break, I will try to find a place in the Diary of Jane, as I burn another page as I look the other way, I still try ti find my place in the Diary of Jane, so tell me how it should be
Breaking Benjamin
#48. The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it's an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn't notice you noticed at all.
Lynda Barry
#49. Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I?
Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.
Oscar Wilde
#50. Because my biggest secret of all - the one I would rather die than tell, the one I wouldn't even put in my diary - is that I really, truly, in my heart, want to be beautiful. I want to be beautiful so much - because it will keep me safe, and keep me lucky, and it's too exhausting not to be.
Caitlin Moran
#51. I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.
Aerin Lauder
#52. Everywhere that we looked, were objects & artifacts reminiscent of a bygone age. of war & destruction, of mankind's determination to rule his neighbour, to prove how mighty he and his people are, yet a romance of days past that I am drawn to like a soul lost and hearing his lovers cries to him
Rob Shepherd
#53. I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.
Tom Stoppard
#54. . . . what matters in combat is adaptability, boldness and maintaining A cool exterior, whilst penetrating your enemy's soul with An icy cold stare
- Diary of A Combat Fiend
Soke Behzad Ahmadi
#55. I don't keep a diary or a journal. Sometimes I'll send emails to friends, and that's a way of recording what I was thinking at any given time. But I've never been a journal keeper.
Meghan Daum
#56. I like to dabble in different things, but music is my first love. It connects to me in a way my side projects don't because it's so personal. I write the words. Music is like my diary. It's my therapy.
Eve
#57. I've glued the letter directly into my diary, as it's so staggeringly imbecilic that any attempt to summarize its contents would make my brain leak out through my ears.
Tim Collins
#58. You are fiercely heterosexual and well-formed, and it's no one's business that you've shrunk your parents and keep them in a terranium, but you have a gatling gun for a mouth, and if that's a diary you're producing from your cleavage, I'm leaving.
Mark Leyner
#60. Diary Amy. She was meant to be likable. Meant for someone like you to like her. She's easy to like. I've never understood why that's considered a compliment - that just anyone could like you. No matter.
Gillian Flynn
#61. And instead of dying Immediately after they shot him, he would go on to survive several days solely because of the cold that January. Maybe that's why we are drawn to those who posses the coldest of hearts ... In effort to survive.
Bethany Brookbank
#62. The photograph is to a great degree evidence of the conversation I had with the person. It's a part of my visual diary.
Jamel Shabazz
#63. I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.
Virginia Woolf
#64. I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
Mark Mothersbaugh
#65. A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.
Anthea Turner
#66. Ivy, I pray that it's you reading this.
And if you are, well, I suppose you're the new me... - Scarlet, in her diary
Sophie Cleverly
#67. There's no seduction any more, diary. No subtlety. No tidy-yourself-up in this world. No need for personal pride. There's just the things you're prepared to do - for survival, for fulfillment, for whatever-the-hell-it-is you really need - and the things you're not.
Simon Spurrier
#68. By the time I was ten or eleven, I had a song-book and I was writing everything down. It used to just be my hobby but now it's like my diary, it's where I can go in my own little bubble.
Ella Henderson
#69. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!
Anne Frank
#70. ME LIKE THE MAGNET
Men I like, I repel
Like a magnet do
So if I'm nasty
Then you know
I probably fancy you.
"It's defence," the shrinks would say.
"It's protects against a fall."
It's impenetrable this fence of mine
It's like the Berlin Wall.
Rae Earl
#71. He took the diary from Mother's hand and turned it over. The heartbreaking something, he read, of a tragic whatever.
Shalom Auslander
#72. All right, you caught me. I'm secretly obsessed with you and spend all my free time writing about you in my journal. 'Dear Diary, today Will was an ass for the 467th day in a row. He's so dreamy
Elizabeth Scott
#73. Sonething's getting in the way!
Something's just about to break!
I will try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane.
As I burn another page,
As I look the other way,
I still try to find my place,
In the Diary of Jane ...
Breaking Benjamin
#74. Writing for yourself is like exposing your diary. It can be a little embarrassing at times, but if it helps somebody get through the day just by hearing a song, it's well worth it.
Sevyn Streeter
#75. A diary is useful for recording the idiosyncrasies of other people - but not one's own.
Agatha Christie
#76. Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.
Rachel Klein
#77. I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.
Sara Bareilles
#78. I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.
Olivia Newton-John
#79. That's what I must avoid: I mustn't put strangeness where there's nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the look-out, and you continually stretch the truth.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#80. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.
Anne Frank
#81. Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
#82. Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?
Clare Boothe Luce
#83. A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.
Andy Warhol
#84. 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
#85. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
Anne Frank
#86. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)
Virginia Woolf
#88. Ulysses was not comely, but he was eloquent,
Yet he fired two goddesses of the sea with love
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.
Petra Nemcova
#90. My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant to read. As soon as I start thinking, 'This book is going to be published,' my drawing becomes calculated and deliberate. It's one of the ways I trick myself.
Jeffrey Brown
#91. What Liam saw was beyond his imagination, and immediately, all of his skin prickled with the bristling hairs. Dozens of shallow cuts paralleled in precision that had nothing to do with scratching yourself against a 'metal thingy'. It was a diary of Ryan's pain, a constant, neverending stabbing
K.A. Merikan
#92. I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.
Joe Perry
#93. 'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
Bel Powley
#94. Do you think it's right to not say goodbye to the man you yourself said was on the very first page of your very first volume of your diary? This is the very last page of his.
Yasunari Kawabata
#95. When you do 'Mad Fat Diary' or 'The Village,' you always learn about the particular time period, and that's always nice for an actor.
Nico Mirallegro
#96. If I was singing like somebody else, then it was almost like I was expressing myself like somebody else. So it was always a very original thing for me. It's my voice, it's my diary, it's the way I connect with people.
Emeli Sande
#97. What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?
Anne Frank
#98. To be a good researcher is to be a good detective, and I enjoy ferreting out tidbits of information. For a diary book like 'A Coal Miner's Bride,' newspapers come in handy for small everyday details such as weather reports.
Susan Campbell Bartoletti
#99. Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.
Meghan Daum
#100. The course of one's life is a difficult thing."
-from "Diary of My Sixteenth Year
Yasunari Kawabata
