Top 100 Quotes About Anne Frank
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. I'll show then that Anne Frank wasn't born yesterday
Anne Frank
#7. 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
#8. Sure I do a lot of jokes about Anne Frank. But when you do those jokes, it makes people remember what happened to her. That process of bringing her story back doesn't have to be a serious one. What I say is all nonsense, but it helps to keep her memory alive.
Joan Rivers
#9. I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
Otto Frank
#10. Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah.
Will Schwalbe
#11. How wonderful it is that nobody wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. - Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Diana E. Ruiz
#12. There hasn't been a more effeminate Jew in the closet since Anne Frank.
Greg Giraldo
#13. Every show you do, you have to do research, and I love to dig into things. I learned about World War II by doing 'Anne Frank.'
Seth Numrich
#14. At least Anne Frank," Comrade Snarky said, "never had to tour with her book ...
Chuck Palahniuk
#15. Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.
Mary Gaitskill
#17. But I think what made me go into theater was seeing my mother onstage. The first thing she did was Mrs. Frank in 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The second thing she did was a play about Freud called 'The Far Country.' She played a paralyzed woman in Vienna who goes to see Freud.
Tony Kushner
#18. Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
John F. Kennedy
#19. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.
Nelson Mandela
#20. It's stupid, but I kept thinking I owed it to her
to Anne Frank, I mean
because she was dead and I wasn't, because she had stayed quiet and kept the blind drawn and done everything right and still died ...
John Green
#21. The Mormons even baptized Anne Frank. It took Ernest Michel, then chairman of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, three years to get Mormons to agree to stop proxy-baptizing Holocaust victims.
Maureen Dowd
#22. My father was born in Amsterdam in a highly religious family. He was in Amsterdam, and he went into hiding right near where Anne Frank was. He was a theoretical physicist and the last Jew to get a Ph.D. in Amsterdam.
Josh Pais
#23. I would go to bed every night and have dreams about having a time machine and somehow I'd have the ability to move through time and space freely, and save Anne Frank.
Jeff Mangum
#24. It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
Kate Bernheimer
#25. His hope was that she would finish her damn book quietly and just leave; that one morning he would awaken and go up to the attic, and Anne Frank would be gone, and he could go on with his life, Anne-free. One hundred percent Frankless. Now with Less Genocide.
Shalom Auslander
#26. If life is so critical, if Anne Frank could die, if my friend could die, children were as vulnerable as adults, and that gave me a secret purpose to my work, to make them live. Because I wanted to live. I wanted to grow up.
Maurice Sendak
#27. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
Anne Frank
#28. A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.
Anne Frank
#29. 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
#30. The only way to take one's mind off it all is to study, and I do a lot of that.
Anne Frank
#31. 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
#32. I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
Anne Frank
#33. How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.
Anne Frank
#34. By thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.
Anne Frank
#35. No one ever became poor from giving.
Anne Frank
#36. We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.
Anne Frank
#38. Dear Kitty, Nothing special going on here.
Anne Frank
#40. [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
#41. The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.
Anne Frank
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. I was too happy for words and I believe he was as well.
Anne Frank
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Beauty remains, even in misfortune. If you just look for it, you discover more and more happiness and regain your balance.
Anne Frank
#50. I've always had to pay double for my sins: once with scoldings and then again with my own sense of despair.
Anne Frank
#51. 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
#52. I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.
Anne Frank
#53. Nature is the one thing for which there is no substitute! One
Anne Frank
#54. 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
#55. Honestly, you needn't think it's easy to be the "badly brought up" central figure of a hypocritical family in hiding.
Anne Frank
#56. I believe in the sun, even when it rains.
Anne Frank
#57. 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
#58. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
#59. 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
#60. What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.
Anne Frank
#61. My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
Anne Baxter
#62. 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
#63. I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
Anne Frank
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. Surely the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.
Anne Frank
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. A quiet conscience makes one strong!
Anne Frank
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.
Anne Frank
#84. 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
#85. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!
Anne Frank
#86. There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.
Anne Frank
#87. Memories mean more to me than dresses.
Anne Frank
#89. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.
Anne Frank
#90. 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
#91. I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.
Anne Frank
#92. But wait till it happens to you! The ack-ack guns make so much noise you can't hear your own voice.
Anne Frank
#93. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud
Anne Frank
#98. I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room.
Anne Frank
#99. 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
#100. 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
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