91 Quotes About Diaries

I look back at the thousands of days through which I have lived, and feel awed by their inconsequentiality. My life resembles the writing in my diary (or perhaps it’s the other way around): the days, like the sentences, each making a kind of superficial sense of their own, but in the context of the surrounding sentences and days, creating not a narrative or a meaning, but the very opposite: a riddle without solutions, a labyrinth without exits. A chaos.

I'm quite an opinionated person, but I'd never written a diary before. I quite like it!

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

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

The point of the daily diary exercise is not to record what you already know about what happened to you in the last 24 hours. Instead, it’s an invitation to the back of your mind to come forward and reveal to you the perishable images about the day you didn’t notice you noticed at all.

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

All these years, you've been filling in your diaries saying you've been watching 'Masterpiece Theatre,' ... Now they know you're watching 'Desperate Housewives.'

Mrs Cameron keeps a rather better weekend diary than I do.

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