Top 100 Anne Frank Quotes
#1. No one ever became poor from giving.
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#2. We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
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#3. Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.
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#4. The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
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#7. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.
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#8. Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the "badly brought up" central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.
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#9. I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
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#10. I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.
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#11. Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.
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#12. My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can't imagine how often I've tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne - to beat her down, hide her.
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#13. It is becoming a bad dream
in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.
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#14. I have an intense need to be alone. Father has noticed I'm not my usual self, but I can't tell him what's bothering me. All I want to do is scream 'let me be, leave me alone!
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#15. A quiet conscience makes one strong!
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#16. He clings to his masculinity, his solitude and his feigned indif- ference so he can maintain his role, so he'll never, ever have to show his feelings. Poor Peter, how long can he keep it up? Won't he explode from this superhuman effort?
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#17. 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.
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#18. I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.
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#19. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!
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#20. There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.
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#21. Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To
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#22. 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?
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#23. I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.
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#24. Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
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#25. Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for medical science, artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountains of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy? I
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#26. I know that I can write, a couple of my stories are good, my descriptions of the 'Secret Annex' are humorous, there's a lot in my diary that speaks, but whether I have real talent remains to be seen.
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#27. By nature he is more closed-up than I am, I agree, but I know - and from my own experience - that at some time or other even the most uncommunicative people long just as much, if not more, to find someone whom they can confide in.
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#28. If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
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#29. I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.
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#30. How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.
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#31. If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.
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#32. It's not just my imagination - looking at the sky, the clouds, the moon and the stars really does make me feel calm and hopeful. It's much better medicine than valerian or bromide. Nature makes me feel humble and ready to face every blow with courage! As
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#33. I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.
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#34. Because we're Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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.
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#37. This morning I was wondering whether you ever felt like a cow, having to chew my stale news over and over again until you're so fed up with the monotonous fare that you yawn and secretly wish Anne would dig up something new.
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#38. New problems: Mrs. Van Daan is desperate, talks about a bullet through her head, prison, hanging, and suicide. She's jealous that Peter confides in me and not her.
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#39. This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood. (10, October, 1942; Handwritten inscription on a photograph)
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#40. One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.
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#41. I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
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#42. When you're standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more to each other than in bright sunshine. It's also easier to whisper your feelings than to shout them from the rooftops.
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#43. I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.
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#44. I want to go on living even after death!
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#45. 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.
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#46. Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.
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#47. 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.
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#49. I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt.
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#50. 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.
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#51. I don't intend to shrink from the truth, because the longer it's postponed, the harder it will be for them to accept it when they do hear it!
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#52. The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever
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#53. After all, he's not my boyfriend! For that matter, he wouldn't be able to tell a healthy sound from an unhealthy one. He'd have to have his ears cleaned first, since he's becoming alarmingly hard of hearing. But enough about my illness. I'm fit as a fiddle again. I've grown almost half an
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#54. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.
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#55. Sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy. I stopped talking
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#56. We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.
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#57. Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.
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#58. few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus.
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#59. No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.
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#60. 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.
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#61. 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.
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#62. Misfortunes never come singly'. First,
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#63. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.
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#64. The young are not afraid of telling the truth.
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#65. I wonder if it's because I haven't been able to poke my nose outdoors for so long that I've grown so crazy about everything to do with Nature?
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#66. No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.
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#67. No one ever was the poorer for giving
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#68. 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.
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#69. And Father's fondness for talking about farting and going to the bathroom is disgusting.
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#70. Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!
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#71. I have in my mind's eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call "Mother" I find no trace of that image.
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#72. Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.
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#73. I'm left with one consolation, small though it may be: my fountain pen was cremated, just as I would like to be some day.
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#74. 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.
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#75. By now I can recognize the women at a glance ... with faces that are either grim
or good-humored, depending on the mood of their husbands.
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#76. 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,
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#77. You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.
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#78. Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date.
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#79. Live with the objective of being happy.
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#80. I wish to go on living even after my death.
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#81. 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.
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#82. Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?
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#83. How can thinking about the misery of others help if you're miserable yourself
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#84. I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.
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#85. This of all the misery in the world and be thankful that you are not sharing in it.
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#86. The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
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#87. After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews.
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#88. No one has ever become poor by giving.
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#89. I think spring is inside me. I feel spring awakening, I feel it in my entire body and soul. I have to force myself to act normally. I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something ...
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#90. It still makes me happy to think back to those words and that look
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#91. 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.
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#92. Go outside ... amidst the simple beauty of nature ... and know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.
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#93. Sympathy, Love, Fortune ... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
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#94. To love someone, I have to admire and respect them.
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#95. No matter what I'm doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's a disgrace to be so cheerful ... This gloom will pass.
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#96. The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.
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#97. 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.
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#98. For someone like me,
it is a very strange habit to write in a diary.
Not only that I have never written before,
but it strikes me that later neither I,
nor anyone else,
will care for the outpouring
of a thirteen year old schoolgirl.
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#99. We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.
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#100. You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!
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