Quotes About Diary

Spurred by necessity, women of the Revolution helped keep a torn society from falling apart. A single entry from the diary of Temperance Smith, the parson's wife from Connecticut, reveals how religion, politics, work, and family, thoroughly interwoven, enabled women to carry on: On

Early in my life, without any supporting evidence, I fretted over what I believed was my fate: accidentally becoming an international pop star. The pages of my diary were filled with hypothetical ethical dilemmas.

I'm sure it won't surprise you to learn that I kept a diary - actually, quite a number of them over the years.

The diary was evidence; it was—it might be—corroboration. It might disrupt the banal reiterations of memory. It might jump-start something—though I had no idea what.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful—then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

Writing is communication, not self-expression. Nobody in this world wants to read your diary except your mother.

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music.

Can you squeeze me into an empty page of your diary and psychologically save me?

My verses are my diary. My poetry is a poetry of proper names.

I always feel vulnerable talking about the poetry aspect of my career because it's little diary entries that I need to sometimes close read, and to reveal that much, it's a bit nerve-racking.

Poetry is a diary kept by a sea creature who lives on land and wishes he could fly.

Dagboekschrijvers als ik schrijven hun dagboek met de onuitgesproken bedoeling zichzelf als een ander voor zich te kunnen zien… Eigenlijk zijn ze geen dagboekschrijvers, maar zelfportrettisten, of een mengeling van die twee.

A man who keeps a diary pays, Due toll to many tedious days; But life becomes eventful--then, His busy hand forgets the pen. Most books, indeed, are records less Of fulness than of emptiness.

Loneliness is the diary keeper's lover. It is not narcissism that takes them to their desk every day. And who "keeps" whom, after all? The diary is demanding; it imposes its routine; it must be chored the way one must milk a cow; and it alters your attitude toward life, which is lived, finally, only in order that it may makes it way to the private page. [From "Fifty Literary Pillars", p.35]

the Rommel diary records an edict that was typical of him: "While the overflowing POW cage on the airfield is being set up, South African officers demand to be segregated from the blacks. This request is turned down by the C in C. He points out that the blacks are South African soldiers too—they wear the same uniform and they have fought side by side with the whites. They are to be housed in the same POW cage.

Baron von Weizsäcker assessed in his private diary, 'The Führer has no desire to pick a fight with the western powers but – so I'm assured – he cannot yet be sure if a war can be confined to Poland. So my own bet is unchanged, that we'll settle for a peaceful general approach.

To-day, the 27th April, 1873, he seems to have been almost dying. No entry at all was made in his diary after that which follows, and it must have taxed him to the utmost to write:— "Knocked up quite, and remain—recover—sent to buy milch goats. We are on the banks of the Molilamo." They are the last words that David Livingstone wrote.

I am thinking of keeping a diary, not with the intend to publish it, merely to record the facts for the information of God, in case God does not know my version of the facts.

Kira is our god, That's who does in this world justice, It's not KARMA!

I kept a diary as a teenager but I never would have shared it with anyone. Still, I think it's very good practice to write things down.

hay he's a great writer and i like him a lot

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?