Quotes from Anne Frank

But I also looked out the open window, letting my eyes roam over a large part of Amsterdam, over the rooftops and on to the horizon, a strip of blue so pale it was almost invisible. "As long as this exists," I thought, "this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

A person of fifty-four who is still so pedantic and small-minded must be so by nature, and will never improve.

SöyleyebildiÄŸimden çok daha fazla s?k?nt?lar içerisindeyim,hiçbir zaman d??ar? ç?kamayaca??z ve müthiÅŸ korkuyorum bizi bulup vuracaklar diye.Bu tabi ki çok hoÅŸ bir manzara deÄŸil.

One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely 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. As long as this exists, and that should be forever, I know that there will be solace for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be;

I'm finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People

I see the eight of us in the Annexe as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds.

Is it really such an admirable trait not to let myself be influenced by others? Am I right in following my own conscience? To

Our lives were not without anxiety, since our relatives in Germany were suffering under Hitler's anti-Jewish laws. After the pogroms in 1938 my two uncles (my mother's brothers) fled Germany, finding safe refuge in North America. My elderly grandmother came to live with us. She was seventy-three years old at the time. After May 1940 the good times were few and far between

Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.

Mr. Bolkestein, the Cabinet Minister, speaking on the Dutch broadcast from London, said that after the war a collection would be made of diaries and letters dealing with the war. Of course, everyone pounced on my diary. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a novel about the Secret Annex. The title alone would make people think it was a detective story.

Bep's engaged! The news isn't much of a surprise, though none of us are particularly pleased. Bertus may be a nice, steady, athletic young man, but Bep doesn't love him, and to me that's enough reason to advise her against marrying him.

noble and good everyone could be if, at the end of each day, they were to review their own behaviour and weigh up the rights and wrongs. They would automatically try to do better at the start of each new day and, after a while, would certainly accomplish a great deal. Everyone is welcome to this prescription; it costs nothing and is definitely useful. Those who don't know will have to find out by experience that 'a quiet conscience gives you strength'! Yours

I want to go on living even after my death!

I'm my best and harshest critic.

Grandma was always so loyal and good. She would never have let any of us down. Whatever happened, no matter how much I misbehaved, Grandma always stuck up for me. Grandma, did you love me, or did you not understand me either? I don't know. How lonely Grandma must have been, in spite of us. You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's 'one and only'. And

Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. Although I tell you a great deal about our lives, you still know very little about us. How frightened the women are during air raids; last Sunday, for instance, when 350 British planes dropped 550 tons of bombs on IJmuiden, so that the houses trembled like blades of grass in the wind. Or how many epidemics are raging here.

few nights ago I was the topic of discussion, and we all decided I was an ignoramus.

that we live in a paradise compared to the Jews who aren't in hiding.

Temos muitos motivos para esperar grande felicidade, mas... precisamos merecê-la.

Geh hinaus in die Felder, die Natur und die Sonne. Geh hinaus und versuche, das Gluck in dir selbst zuruckzufinden. Denke an all das Schone, das noch in dir und um dir ist, und sei glucklich!

Ya no me atrevo a hacer nada, porque tengo miedo de que esté prohibido".