August 2023 – Diaries of Note

Clara Schumann

1st August 1886

Liszt was a bad composer
Rabbi Martin Siegel

2nd August 1969

I want to be what I am, not a symbol of what I am
Vera Brittain

3rd August 1914

Armageddon in Europe!
Arthur Conan Doyle

4th August 1880

The sea was alive with great hunchback whales
Yoko Moriwaki

5th August 1945

I am going to do my best
Michihiko Hachiya

6th August 1945

Complete silence
Vera Inber

7th August 1942

Maybe that will dispel all this quietness
Mal Evans

8th August 1969

ABBEY ROAD
Simone de Beauvoir

9th August 1926

It is in solitude that being shows its worth
John Colville

10th August 1940

Blood, sweat and tears
Charlotte Brontë

11th August 1836

I thought I should have vomited
Alice Dayrell Caldeira Bran

12th August 1893

For the love of God, give me a flea!
Kevin Bentley

13th August 1977

You must be looking for Stuart
Richard Tregaskis

14th August 1942

Whoomp-whoomp-whoomp
Queen Elizabeth II

15th August 1945

Ran through Ritz, walked miles, drank in Dorchester
William Charles Macready

16th August 1840

Dickens flew into so violent a passion
Clara Barton

17th August 1865

I covered my face and wept
Jack Bailey

18th August 1868

I thought once or twice we were done for
Albrecht Dürer

19th August 1520

Very many delightful things were shown
Gamaliel Bradford

20th August 1916

There is something delicious to me in my little spot of garden
John Kirk Townsend

21st August 1834

Tabiboo sant, tabiboo sant!
Howard Williams

22nd August 1875

The coffee was about the substance of mud
Eleanor Coppola

23rd August 1976

Why am I always struggling to get them to blend?
Edith Roller

24th August 1978

Heavy rains have fallen
Jennifer McGlincy

25th August 1989

To Day is the most Best day ever in my Life
Barbara Hepworth

26th August 1954

I bowed to the will of the gods and descended
Louise Bourgeois

27th August 1984

God invented art as a regulating device
Edwin Campion Vaughan

28th August 1917

A black and empty future
Aaron Burr

29th August 1809

It seemed like a general conflagration
Michel Siffre

30th August 1962

I really seem to have no idea of the passage of time
Odd Nansen

31st August 1944

Two less among many, many hundreds of thousands

Month: August