Diary Quote by Robert Musil Download Open image “Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.” — Robert Musil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Diary Felt Need Start Today
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. — Enoch Powell Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self. — Caitlin Flanagan Copy Share Image
Keeping a diary is advanced-level living. I spend way too much time trying not to curl up in the corner like a giant fetus… — Alissa Nutting Copy Share Image
What an odd thing a diary is: the things you omit are more important than those you put in. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
I always wanted to have a diary growing up but was too lazy to commit to one. — Stacy Martin Copy Share Image
I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life… — Richard E. Grant Copy Share Image
To keep a diary is to attempt a difficult literary form. Its effectiveness is likely to derive from a special blend of honesty and… — William Plomer Copy Share Image
As we live longer and healthier for longer, we need to keep ourselves busy... the diary is pretty full. — Evelyn Glennie Copy Share Image
If you were to write a diary and you held things back, when you went back to look at it when you were older,… — Ellie Rowsell Copy Share Image
“Everything we feel and do is somehow oriented "lifeward," and the least deviation away from this direction toward something beyond is difficult or alarming. This is true even of the simple act of walking: one lifts one's center of gravity, pushes it forward, and lets it drop again - and the slightest change, the merest hint of shrinking from this… — Robert Musil Copy Share
“He was in that familiar state - not that the occasion mattered to seriously to him -- of incoherent ideas spreading outward without a… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
It is life that does the thinking all around us, forming with playful ease the connections our reason can only laboriously patch together piecemeal,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“What is it you do, then? I'll tell you: You leave out whatever doesn't suit you. As the author himself has done before you. Just as you leave things out of your dreams and fantasies. By leaving things out, we bring beauty and excitement into the world. We evidently handle our reality by effecting some sort of compromise with it,… — Robert Musil Copy Share
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense… — Robert Musil Copy Share
What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“Ein Mann, der die Wahrheit will, wird Gelehrter; ein Mann, der seine Subjektivität spielen lassen will, wird vielleicht Schriftsteller; was aber soll ein Mann… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and loneliness, an… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“All the knowledge that has led our species from wearing animal skins to people flying, complete with proofs, would fill a handful of reference… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I also believe that few people remain completely untouched by the thought that instead of the life they lead there might also be another,… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
“His appearance gives no clue to what his profession might be, and yet he doesn't look like a man without a profession either. Consider what he's like: He always knows what to do. He knows how to gaze into a woman's eyes. He can put his mind to any question at any time. He can box. He is gifted, strong-willed,… — Robert Musil Copy Share
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“The platonic love I feel for my cousin, made me write this diary ...” Leione” — Pet Torres Copy Share Image
I'm so open to different things. The only thing I'd say is I've set the bar pretty high in terms of good female roles… — Bel Powley Copy Share Image
I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
I keep a diary because I love this writer, David Sedaris, and he writes a lot about his diary, and he inspired me to… — Maya Hawke Copy Share Image
“What will become of me? I do not know where am I going or what tomorrow will bring.” — Hélène Berr Copy Share Image
“I use my friends rather as giglamps : There's another field I see: by your light. Over there's a hill. I widen my landscape.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary. — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
“Dear Diary, We flew to the other side of the world, and I never stopped holding you close to my chest. You were empty… — Diane René Christian Copy Share Image
The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is… — Robert Falcon Scott Copy Share Image
The-Dream was like my diary. I would sit there and talk his ear off about all my guy situations; he would just turn my stories into songs. — Justine Skye Copy Share
