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Diary Quotes

The pages we keep just for ourselves, until someone reads them.

A diary can feel dull the day it's written and priceless decades later - this page gathers thoughts on wartime journals, personal confessions, and stories that started as private notes.

I'm never without my personalised Anya Hindmarch diary - I keep my schedule online, too, but my diary is always in my bag. It's crammed Post-its.

Quotes by Aerin Lauder

I just try to tell a story rather than present an open diary to the world.

Quotes by Adam Schlesinger

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

Quotes by Walter Scott

I can't go to bed if I haven't done my diary. I always record them just as I've always recorded all my interviews and speeches.

Quotes by Tony Benn

Diaries Quotes

The uncut diaries are 16 million words. It's very tiring to do your diary every night before you go to bed.

Quotes by Tony Benn

I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my...

Quotes by Tom Stoppard

My lyrics are my diary - you're hearing every detail of my life.

Quotes by Taylor Momsen

I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.

Quotes by Taylor Swift

One of the scariest moments was being on Tyler Perry's first movie, 'Diary of a Mad Black Woman.'

Quotes by Tamara Taylor

Journal Quotes

I feel like my songs are like diary entries for me. So I usually write about things that have happened to me specifically or sometimes it can be someone who's close to me.

Quotes by Sara Bareilles

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Quotes by Salvatore Quasimodo

One of the few things that will remain of this time is what artists are doing. They are the journal and the diary of our time.

Quotes by Robert Wilson

Today I start a diary; it is against my usual habbits, but out of a clearly felt need.

Quotes by Robert Musil

I've kept a diary since I was 11. It's a way of taking stock, almost meditative, trying to make sense of stuff because life is chaotic.

Quotes by Richard E. Grant

Secrets Quotes

Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.

Quotes by Peter Greenaway

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Oscar Wilde

My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

Quotes by Oliver Sim

I write about so much personal stuff, it's like reading my diary.

Quotes by Noah Cyrus

At times, the reader of World War II literature must think every American, from general to G.I., kept a war diary, later mined for memoirs of the conflict. Few diaries, however, were published in their own right.

Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

Thoughts Quotes

I have boys, and boys are particularly resistant to reading books. I had some success recently with Sherman Alexie's great young adult novel 'The Absolutely True Diary Of A Part-Time Indian.' I told my son it was highly inappropriate for...

Quotes by Nick Hornby

Frequently Asked Questions

What themes run through this Diary quotes page?
The private nature of journaling, the strange feeling of exposing personal writing to readers, and how diaries can become valuable historical records over time.
Why do people enjoy quotes about diaries?
Journaling is a deeply personal habit, so quotes about it often speak to the vulnerability and honesty that comes with putting private thoughts on paper.
Do these quotes mention historical diaries?
Yes, one reflects on how wartime diaries kept by ordinary people later became valuable material for memoirs, even though few were ever published in full.
Is this collection only about traditional paper diaries?
Mostly, though it also touches on diary-style novels and personal writing shared publicly, showing the format has expanded well beyond a locked notebook.
Where can I find more on private thoughts or secrets?
Visit Secrets for related reflections, or the Hindi-language Shayari page for a different tone.

Want more on guarded thoughts? Try Secrets, or for the Hindi-language side of this theme, visit Shayari.