Diary Quotes

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

I don't want to be singing my diary.

There are two types of encryption: one that will prevent your sister from reading your diary and one that will prevent your government.

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 an effort even to record them in a diary.

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

I've kept a diary since I was 11.

I've been keeping a diary for thirty-three years and write in it every morning. Most of it's just whining, but every so often there'll be something I can use later: a joke, a description, a quote. It's an invaluable aid when it comes to winning arguments. 'That's not what you said on February 3, 1996,' I'll say to someone.

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

I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had in them; but of my own accord I handed them voluntarily to the officers of the American Army who arrested me.

I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things.

Now I start my diary of my personal plot to kill by pistol either Richard Nixon or George Wallace.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

My schedule goes: wake up, running, exercise, downstairs, running shoes off, then to the shower. That's the Jackie Chan diary.

The notes I have made are not a diary in the ordinary sense, but partly lengthy records of my spiritual experiences, and partly poems in prose.

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

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

The way I look at it, they're all part of my musical diary, and I can listen to any one of them and it will bring up memories of what was going on at that time.

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit.

The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections.

I've always loved painting, although I never show anyone what I've done. Mainly because I don't do it well. But it's like a form of visual diary for me. A way of fixing things in my mind.

It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.

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