188 Quotes About Diary

It's not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.

Život i smrt. Snaga i mir. Ako danas stanem, vredeće. Čak i užasne greške, koje sam činila i koje bih da poništim, da mogu. Bolovi koji su me pekli i plašili moju dušu, vredeli su, zbog toga što sam bila, tamo gde sam bila, a to su, pakao na zemlji, i raj na zemlji, i opet nazad, u, ispod, između, kroz i iznad.

It (politician) wants to separate them. And to do so it has chosen the worst, blackest pencil of all - the pencil of war, which spells only misery and death.

Besides, who is to say that the feelings he writes in his diary are his true feelings? Who is to say that at each moment while the pen moves he is truly himself? At one moment he might truly be himself, at another he might simply be making things up. How can one know for sure? Why should he even want to know for sure?

From writing in a diary and trying hard to hide it, to writing on public domains, we grew up so fast!

I was one of those unfortunates adopted by upper middle-class professionals and nurtured in an environment of learning, art and a socio-religious culture steeped in more than 2000 years of Talmudic tradition. Not everyone is lucky enough to have been raised in a whiskey tango trailer park by a bow-legged female whose sole qualification for motherhood is a womb that happened to catch a sperm of a passing truck driver.

Mrs. Palmer is a teacher so naturally I assumed she would never do anything good for me.

He steals dreams from her dead eyes every night and pens them down into his diary with his tears.

Go to hell, World! I cannot die in peace and safety. I cannot face the slightest breath of real life or death or ugliness. But I hurt for being such a coward. I was always a coward – socially, physically, mentally, sexually, emotionally. If I go insane, am I brave? I will, because then, and only then, I am brave, not a coward. [An excerpt from the diary of Jean Bouricius' son]