Anne Frank Quotes

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

The young are not afraid of telling the truth.

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.

I wish to go on living even after my death.

I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.

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

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.

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.

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

When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally. Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.

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

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.

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters.

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

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

I live in a crazy time.

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

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.

How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!

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!

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

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

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.

There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Paper has more patience than people.

Misfortunes never come singly.

Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

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!

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.

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.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

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.

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

Paper is more patient than man.