Top 200 Anne Frank Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

— Anne Frank

52. “The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever.”

— Anne Frank

53. “I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.”

— Anne Frank

54. “People who give will never be poor.”

— Anne Frank

55. “I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.”

— Anne Frank

56. “There’s one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don’t bother yourself about the others!”

— Anne Frank

57. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside.”

— Anne Frank

58. “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.”

— Anne Frank

59. “Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.”

— Anne Frank

60. “The only way to truly know a person is to argue with them. For when they argue in full swing, then they reveal their true character.”

— Anne Frank

61. “I live in a crazy time.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

63. “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.”

— Anne Frank

64. “But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”

— Anne Frank

65. “If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.”

— Anne Frank

66. “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.”

— Anne Frank

67. “Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.”

— Anne Frank

68. “Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.”

— Anne Frank

69. “Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”

— Anne Frank

70. “As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.”

— Anne Frank

71. “If God lets me live, I shall attain more than Mummy ever has done, I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world and for mankind!”

— Anne Frank

72. “There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”

— Anne Frank

73. “I think it’s odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”

— Anne Frank

74. “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left – in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.”

— Anne Frank

75. “I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as they’re sincere?”

— Anne Frank

76. “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.”

— Anne Frank

77. “I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”

— Anne Frank

78. “Go outsideamidst the simple beauty of natureand know that as long as places like this exist, there will be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be.”

— Anne Frank

79. “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.”

— Anne Frank

80. “Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I’ll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it’ll make me stronger in the end.”

— Anne Frank

81. “And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.”

— Anne Frank

82. “It won’t take long before I explode with pent-up rage.”

— Anne Frank

83. “In the future I’m going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

— Anne Frank

84. “As long as you’re in the food business, why not make sweets?”

— Anne Frank

85. “I’m sentimental – I know. I’m desperate and silly – I know that too. Oh, help me!”

— Anne Frank

86. “Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.”

— Anne Frank

87. “We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.”

— Anne Frank

88. “The young are not afraid of telling the truth.”

— Anne Frank

89. “I do my best to please everybody, far more than they’d ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don’t want to let them see my trouble.”

— Anne Frank

90. “Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it’s impossible to kill.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

92. “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.”

— Anne Frank

93. “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!”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

96. “The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there’s probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.”

— Anne Frank

97. “I don’t dare do anything anymore, ’cause I’m afraid it’s not allowed.”

— Anne Frank

98. “People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.”

— Anne Frank

99. “I don’t believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!”

— Anne Frank

100. “I never utter my real feelings about anything. My lighter, superficial side will always be too quick for the deeper side of me, and that’s why it always wins.”

— Anne Frank