Quotes from Anne Frank

Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave very differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have so little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't ever confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.

Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! 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!

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

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

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.

when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

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

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.

I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.

Chins up, stick it out, better times will come.

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!

As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.

It's easier to whisper your feelings than to trumpet them forth out loud

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!

How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.

I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.

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!

Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death

And keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if... there weren't any other people living in the world.

I long to ride a bike, dance, whistle, look at the world, feel young and know that I'm free, and yet I can't let it show.

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

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