Best 171 quotes in «diaries quotes» category

A diary means yes indeed.

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 to themselves on paper: or at least, not about love.

After the success of Buddenbrooks, he married and fathered six children. Yet the surviving diaries tell us of recurrent sexual problems - and of Katia Mann's extremely sympathetic response to them

A drawing of the nude is a most revealing expression because it is at once the most private and the most personal. Often such drawings are made with no thought of public exhibition. They possess the intimacy of diaries.

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

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Anyway, yes, telephones but not mobile phones, fish and chips still wrapped in actual newspaper and still with some kind of flavour, people visiting each other without having to consult their appointment diaries, not being able to record anything from the television; if you missed it you missed it - these were all the kinds of thing that made up the normality of the seventies.

Among the Diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: "an unusual combination," in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her.

An introspective man who doesn’t keep a diary consigns himself to a special hell

A novel is a piece of architecture. It's not random wallowings or confessional diaries. It's a building-it has to have walls and floors and the bathrooms have to work.

A person loves to review his own mind. That is the use of a diary, or journal.

A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

A proper family diary with everyone's events and parties in it really helps organise the household.

Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life.

But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.

Dear Diary: My teen angst bullshit now has a body count.

DIARY, n. A daily record of that part of one's life, which he can relate to himself without blushing.

But we don’t remember those lives. We can’t read our diaries.’ ‘It doesn’t matter. We are where we are, however we got here. What matters is where we go next.’ ‘But can we choose that?’ ‘I don’t know.’ ‘We’re Dead. Can we really choose anything?’ ‘Maybe. If we want to bad enough.

Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.

Certainly when you read someone's diary [ superficial] that's a word that jumps to mind.

Dark Water was one of my favourite films to shoot because of Walter. I had seen the previous films he had directed, Central Station and Motorcycle Diaries, and I thought they were great. I really trusted him

Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.

Experience in itself wasn’t enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I’d missed it.

Fights don't solve matters, they just make things worse. (Diary 19)

Fitzgerald said a very interesting thing in his diary; that human life proceeds from the good to the less good - that is, it's always worse as you go on. That's true.

First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when Mom went out to buy this thing I SPECIFICALLY told her to get one that didn't say 'diary' on it.

For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

(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 is the danger to himself from the unreasoning anger of that committee, he never cringed to them for an instant. He stood where he thought he was right and crushed them with his candid logic.

Fundamentally, diaries are about loneliness.

For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help sooth me.

I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.

I always say, keep a diary and someday it'll keep you.

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.

I feel very much a part of what I'm writing about, and I'm writing about things that concern me on a daily basis. I'm not really interested in writing musical diaries, if you know what I mean.

I don't keep diaries anymore; They're quite incriminating. I just keep all the dirt road diaries in my head.

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 all duties aside and savor the experience of being alive in this beautiful place.

I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down.

If anything, I've found nonfiction a little easier. You don't have to make anything up. Of course, that's the inherent difficulty as well: when you hit an information black hole, you don't get to make it up. That hasn't come up too often with this project though. I'm lucky to have tons of primary source material , reams of letters and diaries and memoirs.

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

I have all these revelations as I'm writing. Each song is like a chapter of my diary.

I have never kept diaries. I just remember a lot and am more self-centered than most people.

If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.

I got out this diary, & read as one always does read one's own writing, with a kind of guilty intensity.

I have kept a diary as long as I can remember, and drawings are really another kind of diary.

I keep a diary - one for each film and foreign land I travel to.