Quotes of: Diary Keyword

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary ...

Mary MacLane

There is not one big cosmic meaning for all; there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual plot, like an individual novel, a book for each person.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Diary in Exile, 1935

[There] are people who make a complete and utter mockery of 'democracy' and 'equality' - they're the casualties of the primitive rules of competition which run our society, and the welfare state just keeps them alive. That's all.

Diaries: The Python Years, 1969-1979

Herr Kafka, essen Sie keine Eier." (As one and only piece of dialog K recalls from his meeting with Rudolf Steiner - "Mr. Kafka don't eat eggs.

Diaries, 1910 1923

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947

A big enough artist, I say, can eat anything, must eat everything and then alchemize it. Only the feeble writer is afraid of expansion.

The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934

A bad day today means a promising, good day tomorrow.

The Diary of Pink Pearl Continues: Volume 2 - I'm Wide Awake and Born Again!

There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

The Diary of Anne Frank

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

The Diary of a Young Girl

This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war)... Everyone was saying... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the diffe...

The Diary of a Young Girl

I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.

The Diary of a Young Girl

It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.

The Diary of a Young Girl

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.

The Diary of a Young Girl

He said he wouldn’t stay, as he didn’t care much for the smell of the paint, and fell over the scraper as he went out. Must get the scraper removed, or else I shall get into a scrape. I don’t often make jokes.

The Diary of a Nobody

Now public business takes up so much of my time that I must get time a Sundays or a nights to look after my own matters.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys: A Selection

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917–1922

Your ability to shape your destiny is directly proportional to your belief that it is a matter of will and determination--however much or little that belief may be.

The Barbizon Diaries: A Meditation on Will, Purpose, and the Value Of Stories

The greatest memories a person might have in their life is, childhood. It's really a painful nostalgia.

April Showers Bring May Flowers: Diary of a Ten-Year-Old School Girl

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away. (107)

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian