Notebooks Quotes

“How unbearable, for women, is the tenderness which a man can give them without love. For men, how bittersweet this is.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1935-1942

“In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture.”
― Albert Camus, Notebooks 1951-1959

“I left the bank
because they wouldn’t deposit
my cheque of poems.
So I went to the store,
but they didn’t accept
my currency of words.
So I boxed all my stories
and took them to charity.
But they refused my donation
and asked me to give blood instead.
I opened the notebooks
and made them look, 'What do you think
I wrote these in?”
― Kamand Kojouri

“This was a notebook made for a girl who liked to write, who took each word seriously and put it down with care.”
― Simone St. James, The Broken Girls

“When wine is drunk by a drunkard, that wine is revenged on the drinker.

Leonardo Da Vinci Notebooks, 1281”
― Da Vinci Leonardo

“nothing could beat a paper notebook”
― Melanie Golding, Little Darlings

“At the sight of the notebooks lined up in the window I feel the same flurry of anticipation for clean pages, fresh ink and new beginnings. If only I could crack myself open like a new book, and know that there were hundreds of blank pages waiting to be filled.”
― Maryam Diener, Beyond Black There Is No Colour: The Story of Forough Farrokhzad

“He stared at the blank page, unmarked and white as a slate, but as he moved his face closer and tilted the book towards the light, he noticed that any particular spot of a blank page contains divots, like micrometer mountains, perhaps from the printing factory, or the fact that nothing exists without a fiber of substance waiting for you.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“...the present is also, as its name suggests, a gift. It doesn't suggest longing or loss. It's just a present, a gift, a time with no strings attached which is totally ours, to use however we want, however we please. There are days when I find the future overwhelming, with all the bright lights and commotion.”
― Brenda Lozano, Loop

“Cassius Wortham was possessive of his notebook. He believed that his ideas – however big or small – were fragile things that could melt away under the condemnatory gaze of a stranger.”
― Marcel M. du Plessis, The Silent Symphony

“Give up sitting dutifully at your desk. Leave
your house or apartment. Go out into the world.

It's all right to carry a notebook but a cheap
one is best, with pages the color of weak tea
and on the front a kitten or a space ship.”
― Ron Koertge, Fever: poems