Journal Quotes

336 Journal quotes by 277 unique authors

I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity. — Virginia Woolf
Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
Write a true, careless, slovenly impulsive, honest diary every day of your life. — Brenda Ueland
In our family an experience was not finished, nor truly experienced, unless written down and shared with another. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
I will write myself into well-being. — Nancy Mairs
There's something about a blank page that makes me tingle. — Nikki Grimes
Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness. — Kenneth Williams
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
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
The opening line from a journal can be the beginning of a song. — Judy Collins
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
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
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
My diary seems to keep me whole. — Anais Nin
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
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
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
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
Write: write letters. Keep journals. Besides your children, there is no surer way of achieving immortality. — Ken Burns
Keeping a journal will change your life in ways that you'd never imagine. — Oprah Winfrey
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
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers. — Taylor Swift
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
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: