Anne Frank Quotes

I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt. ~ Anne Frank

Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers? ... Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! ~ Anne Frank

I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that's why it always wins. ~ Anne Frank

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood. ~ Anne Frank

I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character! ~ Anne Frank

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don't necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can't accept, but still a religion, it doesn't matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn't the fear of God but the upholding of one's own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then, without realizing it you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that: A quiet conscience mades one strong! ~ Anne Frank

I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't. ~ Anne Frank

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. ~ Will Schwalbe

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others! ~ Anne Frank

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. ~ Anne Frank

I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude. ~ Anne Frank

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness. ~ Anne Frank

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we're all searching for happiness; we're all leading lives which are different and yet the same. ~ Anne Frank

But I long to have a really good time for once and to laugh so hard it hurts. We're stuck in this house like lepers, ~ Anne Frank

Kitty, if only you knew how I sometimes boil under so many gibes and jeers. And I don't know how long I shall be able to stifle my rage. I shall just blow up one day. Still, ~ Anne Frank

Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together! I ~ Anne Frank

A type like Peter finds it difficult to stand on his own feet, but it's even harder to stand on your own feet as a conscious, living being. Because if you do, than it's twice as difficult to steer a right path through the sea of problems and still remain constant through it all. ~ Anne Frank

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over. ~ Anne Frank

Time to get up time to get washed time to have lunch time to go to bed. What's the point if I never get up again what difference would it make? I might just as well be dead. You might just as well be dead. We all just as well be dead! This isn't living. This is… ~ Anne Frank

I know what I want, I have a goal, I have opinions, a religion and love. If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied. ~ Anne Frank

Time heals all wounds. ~ Anne Frank

I live in a crazy time. ~ Anne Frank

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character! Yours, ~ Anne Frank

I'm awfully scared that everyone who knows me as I always am will discover that I have another side, a finer and better side. I'm afraid they'll laugh at me, think I'm ridiculous and sentimental, not take me seriously. I'm used to not being taken seriously but it's only the "lighthearted" Anne that's used to it and can bear it; the "deeper" Anne is too frail for it. ~ Anne Frank

All I think about when I'm with friends is having a good time. I can't bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don't seem to be able to get any closer, and that's the problem. Maybe it's my fault that we don't confide in each other. In any case, that's just how things are, and unfortunately they're not liable to change. ~ Anne Frank

I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success! ~ Anne Frank

I soothe my conscience with the thought that it's better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart. ~ Anne Frank

How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank (1929-1945) ~ Diana E. Ruiz

To be honest, I can't imagine how anyone could say 'I'm weak' and then stay that way. If you know that about yourself, why not fight it, why not develop your character? Their answer has always been: 'Because it's much easier not to! ~ Anne Frank

And now I have a question for you. 'Do you also put clothes on the flowers you've picked and refuse to talk about their delicate parts?'
I don't think there's a very big difference between people and nature, and since we're also a part of nature, why should we be ashamed of the way nature made us? ~ Anne Frank

Paper is more patient than people." Whenever ~ Anne Frank

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under! ~ Anne Frank

Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless. ~ Anne Frank

Who knows, perhaps the day will come when I'm left alone more than I'd like! Anne ~ Anne Frank

You are all made of real poop. ~ Anne Frank

Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers? ~ Anne Frank

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end. ~ Anne Frank

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think ... peace and tranquillity will return again. ~ Anne Frank

Paper is more patient than people. ~ Anne Frank

Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.Children come back from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone. ~ Anne Frank

It seems to me that, later on, neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the chatterings of a 13-year-old schoolgirl ... ~ Anne Frank

At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book ... ~ Chuck Palahniuk

Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live. ~ Anne Frank

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone. ~ Anne Frank

Jan Gies won't need to. He'll let his wife ride piggyback, and then Miep ~ Anne Frank

No matter how old you are now. You are never too young or too old for success or going after what you want. Here's a short list of people who accomplished great things at different ages
1) Helen Keller, at the age of 19 months, became deaf and blind. But that didn't stop her. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
2) Mozart was already competent on keyboard and violin; he composed from the age of 5.
3) Shirley Temple was 6 when she became a movie star on "Bright Eyes."
4) Anne Frank was 12 when she wrote the diary of Anne Frank.
5) Magnus Carlsen became a chess Grandmaster at the age of 13.
6) Nadia Comăneci was a gymnast from Romania that scored seven perfect 10.0 and won three gold medals at the Olympics at age 14.
7) Tenzin Gyatso was formally recognized as the 14th Dalai Lama in November 1950, at the age of 15.
8) Pele, a soccer superstar, was 17 years old when he won the world cup in 1958 with Brazil.
9) Elvis was a superstar by age 19.
10) John Lennon was 20 years and Paul Mcartney was 18 when the Beatles had their first concert in 1961.
11) Jesse Owens was 22 when he won 4 gold medals in Berlin 1936.
12) Beethoven was a piano virtuoso by age 23
13) Issac Newton wrote Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica at age 24
14) Roger Bannister was 25 when he broke the 4 minute mile record
15) Albert Einstein was 26 when he wrote the theory of relativity
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I've drawn myself apart from them all; I am my own skipper and later on I shall see where I come to land ~ Anne Frank

I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me. ~ Anne Frank

Teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth. Maybe this time they'll be unpredictable in the right direction for a change. ~ Anne Frank

We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us ... hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace. ~ Anne Frank

What are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune. ~ Anne Frank

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude. ~ Anne Frank

She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them? ~ Anne Frank

Love cannot be forced. ~ Anne Frank

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point. ~ Anne Frank

I'm sentimental
I know. I'm desperate and silly
I know that too. Oh, help me! ~ Anne Frank

I've found that there is always some beauty left
in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. ~ Anne Frank

Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.' ~ Seth Numrich

Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute! One ~ Anne Frank

At such times Daddy, Mummy and Margot leave me cold. I wander from one room to another, downstairs and up again, feeling like a songbird whose wings have been clipped and who is hurling himself in utter darkness against the bars of his cage. "Go outside, laugh, and take a breath of fresh air," a voice cries within me, but I don't even feel a response any more; I go and lie on the divan and sleep, to make the time pass more quickly, and the stillness and terrible fear, because there is no way of killing them. ~ Anne Frank

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. ~ Anne Frank

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. ~ Anne Frank

We are shut up here, shut away from the world, in fear and anxiety, especially just lately. Why, then, would we who love each other remain apart? Why should we wait until we've reached suitable age? Why should we bother? ~ Anne Frank

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world. ~ Anne Frank

I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion! ~ Anne Frank

That is something we must never forget; although others may show heroism in the war or against the Germans, our helpers display heroism in their cheerfulness and affection. ~ Anne Frank

His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide. ~ Shalom Auslander

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad? ~ Anne Frank

Oh, when will all these difficulties be overcome? And yet it is good to overcome them, because then the end will be all the more wonderful. ~ Anne Frank

The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland. ~ Anne Frank

Hope the play will be a success and that the message which it contains will, through you, reach as many people as possible and awaken in them a sense of responsibility to humanity. ~ Anne Frank

Wouldn't you rather see the real Amsterdam?' No, Cat, dammit, no! I had no desire to see the real Amsterdam. We had reality back in Berkshire, that's not why we were here; we had no interest in the way things really were. A perfectly co-ordinated schedule of sightseeing was unravelling before my eyes. 'If we don't go to the Anne Frank House today, the whole plan falls apart.' I felt myself getting shrill. ~ Anonymous

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve. ~ Anne Frank

Anne Frank was her go-to girl. Suzi stayed in her room as much as they'd let her, rereading Anne Frank's diary for the millionth time so that she wouldn't feel sorry for herself. ~ Elizabeth Stuckey-French

few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus. ~ Anne Frank

That's the difficulty in these times: ideals, dreams, and cherished hopes rise within us, only to meet the horrible truth and be shattered.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet, I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come out right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again. ~ Anne Frank

I am the best and sharpest critic of my own work. I know myself what is and what is not well written. Anyone who doesn't write doesn't know how wonderful it is. ~ Anne Frank

Kugel had discovered of late that he was gluten intolerant ... It was difficult to avoid wheat, and gluten-free food was terribly expensive, but Kugel now thought it wonderfully appropriate that matzoh - the most hated food of his youth - was the one he, as an adult, would find he was allergic to, the one that his body was actually incapable of processing, the one that the lining of his gut identified as poison.
His stomach was anti-Semitic.
His bowels had assimilated.
His rectum was self-hating.
Anne Frank would be pleased.
His mother would be disappointed. ~ Shalom Auslander

I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room. ~ Anne Frank

Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the "badly brought up" central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding. ~ Anne Frank

There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down. ~ Anne Frank

No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do! ~ Anne Frank

What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable? That's stupid! ~ Anne Frank

I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. But, and that is the greatest question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer? I hope so, oh, I hope so very much, for I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideas and my fantasies. ~ Anne Frank

We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered. ~ Anne Frank

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. ~ Anne Frank

Alas, it has had to be that I am only able---except on a few rare occasions---to look at nature through dirty net curtains hanging before very dusty windows. And it's no pleasure looking through these any longer, because nature is just the one thing that really must be unadulterated. ~ Anne Frank

No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death. ~ Anne Frank

An empty day, though clear and bright,
Is just as dark as any night. ~ Anne Frank

I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself. ~ Anne Frank

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could! ~ Anne Frank

I'm not a baby or a spoiled darling any more, to be laughed at, whatever she does. I have my own views, plans, and ideas, though I can't put them into words yet. Oh, so many things bubble up inside me as I lie in bed, having to put up with people I'm fed up with, who always misinterpret my intentions. ~ Anne Frank

At the moment, as you've probably noticed, I'm going through a spell of being depressed. I couldn't really tell you why it is, but I believe it's just because I'm a coward, and that's what I keep bumping up against. ~ Anne Frank

I can't imagine how anyone can say: "I'm weak," and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: "Because it's so much easier not to! ~ Anne Frank

People who give will never be poor. ~ Anne Frank

The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character. ~ Anne Frank

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy. ~ Anne Frank

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave. ~ Anne Frank

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets? ~ Anne Frank

I'm happy when I see him, and happier still if the sun shines when we're together ~ Anne Frank