Anne Frank Quotes Archives - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Although I'm only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I'm a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Am I really so bad-mannered, conceited, headstrong, pushing, stupid, lazy, etc., etc., as they all say? Oh, of course not. I have my faults, just like everyone else, I kniw that, but they thoroughly exaggerate everything.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Looking back, I realize that this period of my life has irrevocably come to a close; my happy-go-lucky, carefree schooldays are gone forever. I don't even miss them. I've outgrown them. I can no longer just kid around, since my serious side is always there.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Anyhow, I've learned one thing now. You only really get to know people when you've had a jolly good row with them. Then and then only can you judge their true characters!
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Misfortunes never come singly.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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 right.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

As long as this exists I thought, and I may live to see it, this sunshine, the cloudless skies, while this lasts, I cannot be unhappy.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"