Contempt Quote by Anne Frank

I was already in a groove and decided to initially write down everything, as I would in an actual diary, and then go back…

— Andy Cohen

Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I…

— Nicole Krauss

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

I wrote poetry in a secretive way, I think, a secret from myself, I mean. I wrote it because it gave me great pleasure…

— Philip Schultz

I was in my house, alone in the living room, anxious about you, watching the flashes of lightning. And a flash of lightning lit…

— Haruki Murakami

“I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.…

— Sarah Manguso

I never wrote anything down. I never kept a diary, never kept a journal. I did write one letter home about touring with the…

— Linda Ronstadt

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.

— Virginia Woolf

“My journal, my written thoughts like the lost children of my soul.”

— Sarah Ockler

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

Recently I began reading my old diaries. Back to before the war. Gradually I became very depressed. The reason for that is probably that…

— Kathe Kollwitz

Melancholy had crept inside me. Small children made me cry, I got depressed eating meat, old book bindings awakened tenderness in me. Everything was…

— Mati Unt