188 Quotes About Diary

When secrets are unspoken and unwritten they are lodged safely in the mind, but writing them down seems to let them loose and give them the power to spread like pollen on the air and enter into other minds.

Update: Reading an old diary where I've written: "...almost forgotten every moment that was spent with you." Anyways, its already been 5 years now so I just made a little change on that "...almost forgotten every moment that was spent with you, but that's still not enough for that old me who's still somewhere inside my head".

People refer to the fog of war, and I am sure something similar applies to my situation. If I hadn't kept a running record of the days, weeks, and years, the fog would have swallowed too much of the story for me to provide a reliable account.

Tuose puslapiuose tvinksi toks gyvas laikmečio pul­sas, kad mūsų širdyse kyla tikrumo alkis, gyvenimo ir tegu netobulo jo realizavimo geismas. Tačiau gyvenimas lieka ta­rytum už stiklo – nutolęs – viskas lyg jau ne mūsų, lyg žvelg­tum pro traukinio langą.

I am eleven years old, I know, and I am not serious enough. Last night I said to myself: tomorrow I will be good. Good? I wasn't any better than I was the day before. Now here is a new month, and I haven't yet thought out how to be more sensible, how to master my impulses and my temper. I am ashamed to be so undisciplined.

ALGERNON: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I?CECILY: Oh no. [Puts her hand over it.] You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy.

I felt him in everything. And what I felt was too deep.

I wrote about myself so I wouldn't become paralyzed by rumination—so I could stop thinking about what had happened and be done with it.More than that, I wrote so I could say I was truly paying attention. 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.

What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.