Diary Quotes
241 quotes by 196 authors
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Look, this isn’t The Mummy. It’s not like a teenaged girl’s diary could resurrect the dead or anything. It’s just the story of her innocuous…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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…
— Oscar Wilde
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(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,†Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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I know a lot about when I was a little girl, because my sister used to keep a diary. Today I keep her diary in…
— Cynthia Kadohata
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A diary is the last place to go if you wish to seek the truth about a person. Nobody dares to make the final confession…
— Lawrence Durrell
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I swear, you are the only person I know who makes decisions based on what will provide the best material for a diary.
— Rob Thomas
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Claire was struggling through last summer’s diary volume when Myrnin popped in through the portal, wearing a big floppy black hat and a kind of…
— Rachel Caine
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I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip…
— Alex Garland
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I would like permission to fetch a note from my mother, sir' Ridcully sighed. 'Rincewind, you once informed me, to my everlasting puzzlement, that you…
— Terry Pratchett
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Keep a diary, but don't just list all the things you did during the day. Pick one incident and write it up as a brief…
— John Berendt
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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
— George Orwell
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She read it again. It was fascinating and surreal, like reading a diary that had been hers when she was a teenager, secret and heartfelt…
— Lisa Genova
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The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
— Anne Frank
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Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,…
— Dean Koontz
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Jonah spoke what everyone was thinking. "Wouldn't it be Twilight Zone if the door was open, too?" Hamilton tried the knob. It didn't budge. Ian…
— Gordon Korman
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Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.
— Kurt Cobain
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Needless to say, the business of living interferes with the solitude so needed for any work of the imagination. Here's what Virginia Woolf said in…
— Virginia Woolf
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I remember," she said. "Lawrence Malley. He was an expert in security systems." "Aka Lightfinger Larry." Dan grinned. "He was also wanted in five states."…
— Judy Blundell
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Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
— Eudora Welty
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When I think about the things that cause me pain or the things that cause me trouble or frustration, it's not people asking for my…
— Taylor Swift
Who Wrote These Diary Quotes
196 authors contributed a total of 241 Diary Quotes, led by these top contributors: