188 Quotes About Diary

I’m tired. Dead tired. So tired I can barely stay awake to write this. After helping Mr Bircher search for his head all night, I’m a little annoyed too. Dad doesn’t help. He doesn’t know what it's like for a girl my age, trying to fit in at school as much as possible, and trying to fit in all the dead people. It’s not easy being a soul helper.

I block in days / nights for writing where I don't touch emails or social media.

There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at 40) to say something in my own voice; & that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.' (26 July 1922)

That's what I must avoid: I mustn't put strangeness where there's nothing. I think that is the danger of keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything, you are on the look-out, and you continually stretch the truth.

I am a woman first of all. At the core of my work was a journal written for the father I lost, loved and wanted to keep. I am personal. I am essentially human, not intellectual. I do not understand abstract act. Only art born of love, passion, pain.

Your diary should be a nepenthe.

Đúng là tôi viết nhật kí, để đưa hiện tại của tôi ra khỏi thời gian, để ngày hôm trước được tồn tại, vĩnh viễn. Nhưng tôi bắt đầu nhận thấy sự nguy hiểm của vĩnh cửu. Đã 3 mùa trôi qua, mà hiện tại của tôi ngày một tệ hại. Sự vĩnh cửu, giống như vũng nước tù, càng vĩnh cửu càng hôi thối, càng lắm kí sinh trùng. Chính vì vậy, tôi đã xé nhật kí.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.

One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time apart', 'serious talk' or 'maybe you...' and you're never going to see them again and will have to spend the next six months having imaginary conversations in which they beg to come back, and bursting into tears at the sight of their toothbrush.