Journal Quotes
336 Journal quotes by 277 unique authors
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I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
— Virginia Woolf
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Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep…
— Erica Jong
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Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life.
— Brenda Ueland
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In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another.
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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I will write myself into well-being.
— Nancy Mairs
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There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle.
— Nikki Grimes
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Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.
— Kenneth Williams
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Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary,"…
— Anne Frank
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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. C. Benson
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The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song.
— Judy Collins
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The diary taught me that it is in the moments of emotional crisis that human beings reveal themselves most accurately. I learned to choose the…
— Anais Nin
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I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push…
— May Sarton
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The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day.…
— Sheila Bender
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My diary seems to keep me whole.
— Anais Nin
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I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and…
— Jess Walter
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The person who wins the Nobel Prize is not the person who read the most journal articles and took the most notes on them. It's…
— Noam Chomsky
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Get a notebook, my young folks, a journal that will last through all time, and maybe the angels may quote from it for eternity. Begin…
— Spencer W. Kimball
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I have never feared that the revolution would be engendered by the universities; but that at them a whole generation of revolutionaries must be formed,…
— Klemens von Metternich
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Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality.
— Ken Burns
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Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine.
— Oprah Winfrey
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It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years,…
— Jim Rohn
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I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.
— Taylor Swift
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If you're serious about becoming a wealthy, powerful, sophisticated, healthy, influential, cultured and unique individual, keep a journal. Don't trust your memory. When you listen…
— Jim Rohn
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The writer who is a mother should, I think, record everything she can: make notes, keep journals, take photographs, use a tape recorder, and remind…
— Alicia Ostriker
Who Wrote These Journal Quotes
277 authors contributed a total of 336 Journal Quotes, led by these top contributors: