Anne Frank Quotes
-
You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.
→ -
I want to go on living after my death!
→ -
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
→ -
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. 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.
→ -
Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.
→ -
Once again St. Nicholas Day Has even come to our hideaway; It won't be quite as fun, I fear, As the happy day we had last year. Then we were hopeful, no reason to doubt That optimism would win the bout, And by the time this year came round, We'd all be free, and safe and sound. Still, let's not forget it's St. Nicholas Day, Though we've nothing left to give away. We'll have to find something else to do: So everyone please look in their shoe!
→ -
What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.
→ -
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
→ -
I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.
→ -
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
→ -
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
→ -
Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?
→ -
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.
→ -
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.
→ -
How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the whole day and consider exactly what has been good and bad. Then without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day.
→ -
I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.
→ -
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
→ -
I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.
→ -
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.
→ -
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.
→ -
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!
→ -
As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.
→ -
I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.
→ -
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.
→ -
How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world!
→ -
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
→ -
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
→ -
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
→ -
Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?
→ -
Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly uptill now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.
→
Related Authors
-
-
Eva Braun Photographer -
Joseph Stalin Former Premier of the Soviet Union -
Miep Gies Author -
Oskar Schindler Industrialist -
Benito Mussolini Former Duce -
Eleanor Roosevelt Former First Lady of the United States -
Elie Wiesel Professor -
Winston Churchill Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom -
Ruby Bridges Author -
Zlata Filipović Writer -
Napoleon Bonaparte Military Commander -
Erin Gruwell Teacher -
Helen Keller Author -
Ellie Kendrick Actress -
Primo Levi Chemist -
Adolf Hitler Former Chancellor of Germany -
Otto Frank Businessman -
Joseph Goebbels German Politician -
Nelson Mandela Former President of South Africa