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Diarist Inspirational Quotes (16475)

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Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.
Lord Byron
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Sweet is revenge-especially to women.
Lord Byron
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Life does not need to mutilate itself in order to be pure.
Simone Weil
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I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed.
Jack London
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Maybe the true purpose of my life is for my body, my sensations and my thoughts to become writing, in other words, something intelligible and universal, causing my existence to merge into the lives and heads of other people.
Annie Ernaux
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She teaches me that the world is made to be pounced on and enjoyed, and that there is absolutely no reason at all to hold back.
Annie Ernaux
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I know not how to abstain from reading.
Samuel Pepys
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People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad.
Leo Tolstoy
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I would fain keep sober always and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness.
Henry David Thoreau
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The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.
Henry David Thoreau
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We seldom see anybody who is not uneasy or afraid to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.
Harry S. Truman
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By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things.
Ronald Reagan
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Every second is of infinite value.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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As far as I am concerned I would rather spend the rest of my life in prison than marry again.
George Sand
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Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn?
Roland Barthes
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If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.
Henry David Thoreau
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Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Woman's normal occupations in general run counter to creative life, or contemplative life, or saintly life.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Beauty cannot disguise nor music melt A pain undiagnosable but felt.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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No new sect ever had humor no disciples either, even the disciples of Christ.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Why is it that you can sometimes feel the reality of people more keenly through a letter than face to face?
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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