Anne Frank Quotes (104 Quotes)

Paper is more patient than man.

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.

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.

I believe that even bad people are truly good at heart.

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.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

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.

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!

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.

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

People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.

Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.

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.

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.

In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.

Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.

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

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.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

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.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

...by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the invasion, she nags us the whole day long about the bad weather. It really would be nice to dump her in a bucket of cold water and put her up in the loft.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

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.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

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.

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

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

I live in a crazy time.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago.

If I talk, everyone thinks I'm showing off when I'm silent they think I'm ridiculous rude if I answer, sly if I get a good idea, lazy if I'm tired, selfish if I eat a mouthful more than I should, stupid, cowardly, crafty, etc. etc.

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 still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls . . .