Quotes About Anne Frank Diary

#1. No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

Anne Frank

#2. 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.

Anne Frank

#3. People who are religious should be glad, since not everyone is blessed with the ability to believe in a higher order.

Anne Frank

#4. I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

Anne Frank

#5. Instantly, there had been cries of protest from the industrial archaeologists, outraged at such vandalism, and from the naturalists, who pointed out that the penguins simply loved the abandoned pipeline.

Arthur C. Clarke

#6. Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

Anne Frank

#7. No one must know that my heart and mind are constantly at war with each other. Up to know reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do!

Anne Frank

#8. A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the "One and Only" to anyone.

Anne Frank

#9. Huguette was a formidable personality who lived life as she wanted, always on her own terms.

In her own way, she found what life may be, a life of integrity.

Bill Dedman

#10. 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

#11. [I] read Anne Frank's diary [while imprisoned] on Robben Island and derived much encouragement from it.

Nelson Mandela

#12. 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

#13. What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Anne Frank

#14. I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

Anne Frank

#15. Anne Frank's diary made a very big impression on me at age 12 or so.

Mary Gaitskill

#16. I'm my best and harshest critic. I know what's good and what isn't.

Anne Frank

#17. Men like Henry George [ the pioneer of land value taxation] are rare, unfortunately. One cannot imagine a more beautiful combination of intellectual keenness, artistic form, and fervent love of justice.

Albert Einstein

#18. Levi's eyebrows were pornographic

Rainbow Rowell

#19. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Anne Frank

#20. 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!

Anne Frank

#21. 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.

Anne Frank

#22. But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take ti too seriously.

Anne Frank

#23. Paper is more patient than people.

Anne Frank

#24. 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

#25. I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.

Lydia Davis

#26. I'm the fucking luckiest man on the planet tonight. The only thing I'm going to do is help you come.

Molly O'Keefe

#27. I found that it was easier to think up questions than to ask them.

Anne Frank

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Anne Frank

#31. I hope I'm going to be a little like him, without having to go through what he has!

Anne Frank

#32. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.

Anne Frank