Journals Diaries Quotes

“There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Often as writers, we are surprised by what we learn about ourselves. It runs counter to what we’ve thought about who we are. But it is closer to the truth.”
― Rob Bignell, Writing Affirmations: A Collection of Positive Messages to Inspire Writers

“Sometimes I grow
so tired of speaking
my emotions to you.

I open my mouth
and dust spills out
instead of feelings.

Dust, and the yellow
wings of moths,
and brittle paper,

scrawled over
with riddles that
lack solutions.”
― Gabriel Gadfly

“I had tea. I then spent a long time in a bookshop. A quiet evening.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Passionate Apprentice: The Early Journals, 1897-1909

“These empty pages are your future, soon to become your past. T will read the most personal tale you shall ever find in a book.”
― Anonymous

“The grace of writing is upon me.
I love writing. I write daily.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Cold feet under a warm blanket, steam over an empty mug--rain splatters on dry window pane--open journals of closed memories... tears of laughter and joy of pain... schmaltz of diametric morning.”
― Val Uchendu

“I am I because of that.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Gab has just returned this journal to me, saying he found it on the kitchen table. I suspect he's been reading it. If so - KEEP OUT!!! and I LOVE YOU!!! but mainly THIS IS PRIVATE. KEEP OUT!!!

M,
If this is a private journal then you shouldn't leave it open in a place where I can see it.
Gabriel”
― Sally Green

“to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I'll call you. Take care." And he was gone. So the rain comes down hard outside my room, and like Eddie Cohen," I say, "... fifteen thousand years - - - of what? We're still nothing but animals.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It was inestimably important for me to look at the lights of Amherst town in the rain, with the wet black tree-skeletons against the limpid streetlights and gray November mist, and then look at the boy beside me and feel all the hurting beauty go flat because he wasn't the right one-not at all.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“A daily written thankful gratitude is a heavenly blessing.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“I can only hazard. In the back of my mind there are bombs falling, women and children screaming, but I can't describe it now.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“In our notebooks , we press our past selves between the pages like diaphanous flowers, so that we can look back and remember who we used to be.”
― Laura Pashby, Little Stories of Your Life: Find Your Voice, Share Your World and Tell Your Story

“Writing seemed to me to be the most natural thing to do during my college days. I could not open up to others and so I started writing my thoughts in my journal. It gave me a sense of calm and peace

And now after so many years to write my thoughts in my journal still seems to me to be the most natural thing to do. I am still not able to open up easily in front of people. And so writing keeps me sane!”
― Avijeet Das

“I can suffer less because my mind can create a love story out of any experience”
― Andrea L. Wehlann, Stillness in the Storm: A Conscious Daily Journal of Yoga and Spiritual Healing