#diary

I don't want to be singing my diary. ↗

— Norah Jones

#i #singing #want

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. ↗

— Walter Scott

#centuries #contemporary #diary #document #dull

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve. ↗

— David Sedaris

#diary #get #read #somebody #you

A diary means yes indeed. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#indeed #means #yes

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 plays. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#apart #away #diary #i #keep

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

— Taylor Swift

#feel #i #i write #like #order

The Smiths was an incredibly personal thing to me. It was like launching your own diary to music. ↗

— Steven Morrissey

#incredibly #launching #like #me #music

How do we know that our life really happened and that we are not simply accumulating details, making it all up as we go along? ↗

— Rachel Klein

#life #supernatural #life

Maybe we choose to stay in a constant state of ignorance as a protective instinct — maybe I was just in denial. I just don’t get how you can be completely in love with someone one day, and then all of a sudden you just aren’t. I will never forget that day...the day where I became numb. ↗

— Piper Caleb

#diary #eating-disorders #new-adult #psychology #love

He who does not know how to encircle a girl so that she loses sight of everything he does not want her to see, he who does not know how to poetize himself into a girl so that it is from her that everything proceeds as he wants it-he is and remains a bungler ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#johannes #love #poetry #seducer-s-diary #seduction