27 Quotes About Journals

All outward forms of religion are almost useless, and are the causes of endless strife. . . . Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat.

For many years I was self-appointed inspector of snow-storms and rain-storms, and did my duty faithfully; surveyor, if not of highways, then of forest paths and all across-lot routes, keeping them open, and ravines bridged and passable at all seasons, where the public heel had testified to their utility.

It wasn’t really a journal. I tried keeping a journal, but it would always be one long entry filling the first seven pages, and then just nothing. Too hard.

But aren’t journals such as this basically occasions for candid assessments?No. They’re not. They’re for telling oneself the fictions that are as honest as you can make them and still keep your life bearable.

Many online journals get the most hits of the day during the lunch hour.

It's not that journals need to be more careful. Institutions need to be set up so that we don't produce this problem.

We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.

Everything is fiction. You only have your own life to work with in the way that a biographer only has the letters and journals to work with.