188 Quotes About Diary

Whenever I get my period (and that’s only been three times), I have the feeling that in spite of all the pain, discomfort and mess, I’m carrying around a sweet secret. So even though it’s a nuisance, in a certain way I’m always looking forward to the time when I’ll feel that secret inside me once again.

The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

At the moment I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

… my joints ache with fatigue, my dried up body trembles toward its own destruction in turmoils of which I dare not become fully conscious, in my head are astonishing convulsions.

Habits gradually change the face of ones life as time changes one's physical face;& one does not know it.

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 immense success of our life, is I think, that our treasure is hid away; or rather in such common things that nothing can touch it.

One always sees the soul through words. (22 July 1922)

Joy's life in the doing (..) I mean it's the writing, not the being read that excites me.