Anne Frank Quotes Archives - Famous Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I wish to go on living even after my death.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if....if only there were no other people in the world.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

A quiet conscience makes one strong!
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.
—Anne Frank, "The Diary of a Young Girl"

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"