Diary Quotes

241 quotes by 190 authors

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. — Salvatore Quasimodo
I never kept a diary, but I wrote detailed notes of my travels. — David Rockefeller
What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable… — Walter Scott
I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be… — David Sedaris
A diary means yes indeed. — Gertrude Stein
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… — Tom Stoppard
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. — Taylor Swift
I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you. — Mae West
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. — Oscar Wilde
Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us. — Oscar Wilde
I kept a diary right after I was born. Day 1: Tired from the move. Day 2: Everyone thinks I'm an idiot. — Steven Wright
The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip. — Henny Youngman
Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never happened or couldn't possibly have happened. — Oscar Wilde
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it… — Franz Kafka
Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook...… — Jane Austen
This diary is my kief, hashish and opium pipe. This is my drug and my vice. — Anais Nin
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… — Zlata FilipoviÄ‡
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir
There is not a single line in this diary that does not call for a correction or a denial...Yes: throughout these pages I meant what… — Simone de Beauvoir

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