Top 100 Quotes About Anne Frank
#1. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
Anne Frank
#2. A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.
Anne Frank
#3. How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves!
Anne Frank
#4. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.
Anne Frank
#5. 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
#6. I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
#7. How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.
Anne Frank
#8. By thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.
Anne Frank
#9. No one ever became poor from giving.
Anne Frank
#10. We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
Anne Frank
#12. I'd been going up for things, but I hadn't got anything, and then 'Anne Frank' came out, and there was a sudden flurry. I got a call saying they wanted to see me at the Globe, which was incredible because I'd been coming here since I was 12.
Ellie Kendrick
#13. It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra and Anne Frank - there I was, sitting in Hollywood, just waiting for somebody to want me.
Susan Strasberg
#14. Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.
Anne Frank
#16. [There's] something we should never forget; while others display their heroism in battle or against the Germans, our helpers prove theirs every day by their good spirits and affection.
Anne Frank
#17. The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.
Anne Frank
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. I was too happy for words and I believe he was as well.
Anne Frank
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
Anne Frank
#26. I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair.
Anne Frank
#27. Margot is very kind and would like me to confide in her, but I can't tell her everything. She takes me too seriously, far too seriously, and spends a lot of time thinking about her loony sister, looking at me closely whenever I open my mouth and wondering, Is she acting, or does she really mean it?
Anne Frank
#28. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.
Anne Frank
#29. Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute! One
Anne Frank
#30. If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.
Anne Frank
#31. Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the "badly brought up" central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.
Anne Frank
#32. I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
Anne Frank
#33. 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
#34. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
#35. 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
#36. The events of the Holocaust viewed through the eyes of Anne Frank are a unique and damming testament to the dreadful atrocities of that period of our history
Charles Kennedy
#37. What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
Anne Frank
#38. My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
Anne Baxter
#39. Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don't cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!
Anne Frank
#40. I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
Anne Frank
#41. 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.
Anne Frank
#42. I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.
Anne Frank
#43. 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.
Anne Frank
#44. This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I'd call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I'd take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor's room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.
Anne Frank
#45. Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.
Anne Frank
#46. 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.
Anne Frank
#47. 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.
Anne Frank
#48. Peter needs tenderness. For the first time in his life he's discovered a girl; for the first time he's seen that even the biggest pests also have an inner self and a heart, and are transformed as soon as they're alone with you.
Anne Frank
#49. I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist.
Anne Frank
#50. 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.
Anne Frank
#51. The human race survived the Inquisition. We can survive. It's like the Anne Frank quote: 'In spite of everything, I still believe that people are basically good at heart.' Given what happened to her, it's one of the miracles of the world that she said that.
Steve Earle
#52. I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!
Anne Frank
#54. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...
Anne Frank
#55. 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!
Anne Frank
#56. A quiet conscience makes one strong!
Anne Frank
#57. 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?
Anne Frank
#58. 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
#59. 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.
Anne Frank
#60. 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.
Anne Frank
#61. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.
Anne Frank
#62. 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.
Anne Frank
#63. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!
Anne Frank
#64. There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.
Anne Frank
#65. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Anne Frank
#67. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
Anne Frank
#68. 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
#69. I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.
Anne Frank
#70. But wait till it happens to you! The ack-ack guns make so much noise you can't hear your own voice.
Anne Frank
#71. I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.
Anne Frank
#72. Father has been home a lot lately. There's nothing for him to do at the office; it must be awful to feel you're not needed. Mr. Kleiman has taken over Opekta, and Mr. Kugler, Gies & Co., the company dealing in spices and spice substitutes that was set up in 1941. A few days
Anne Frank
#73. Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To
Anne Frank
#74. It's a wonder I haven't abandoned all my ideals. They seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." - Anne Frank
Danielle Steel
#75. It is the silence that frightens me so in the evenings and at night ... I can't tell you how oppressive it is never to be able to go outdoors, also I am very afraid that we will be discovered and be shot.
Anne Frank
#76. It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud
Anne Frank
#77. I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room.
Anne Frank
#78. 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
#79. I have often been downcast but never in despair; 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.
Anne Frank
#80. 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.
Anne Frank
#82. 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
#83. Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
Anne Frank
#84. 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.
Anne Frank
#85. We're so selfish that we talk about "after the war" and look forward to new clothes and shoes, when actually we should be saving every penny to help others when the war is over, to salvage whatever we can.
Anne Frank
#86. I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
Anne Frank
#87. Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank
#88. 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
Anne Frank
#89. I'm sentimental
I know. I'm desperate and silly
I know that too. Oh, help me!
Anne Frank
#90. I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.
Anne Frank
#91. I hope Anne's book will have an effect on the rest of your life so that insofar as it is possible in your own circumstances, you will work for unity and peace.
Otto Frank
#92. He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
Anne Frank
#93. Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I'm terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we'll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.
Anne Frank
#94. This is the beginning of the end (talking about the war) ... Everyone was saying ... But the British Prime Minister said, "This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." Do you see the difference?
Anne Frank
#95. He could pull this off. He was sure of it. It would have been one thing to protect Anne Frank from the Nazis; he was pretty sure he couldn't have managed that. But protecting his family from Anne Frank? How difficult could that be?
Shalom Auslander
#96. 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.
Anne Frank
#97. And yet I don't seem able to touch on the subjects I'm so longing to bring out into the daylight.
Anne Frank
#98. 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
#99. 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.
Anne Frank
#100. I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.
Anne Frank
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