Top 200 Anne Frank Quotes (2024 Update)
Page 3 of 5

101. “How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.”

— Anne Frank

102. “I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”

— Anne Frank

103. “One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.”

— Anne Frank

104. “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.”

— Anne Frank

105. “This week I’ve been reading a lot and doing little work. That’s the way things ought to be. That’s surely the road to success.”

— Anne Frank

106. “I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

108. “Don’t condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”

— Anne Frank

109. “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.”

— Anne Frank

110. “A person who’s happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

112. “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.”

— Anne Frank

113. “There’s something happening everyday, but I’m too tired and lazy to write it all down.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

115. “Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”

— Anne Frank

116. “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.”

— Anne Frank

117. “I simply can’t imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about “after the war,” but it’s as if I’m talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.”

— Anne Frank

118. “God never deserted our people. Right through the ages there were Jews. Through the ages they suffered, but it also made us strong.”

— Anne Frank

119. “Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.”

— Anne Frank

120. “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!”

— Anne Frank

121. “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.”

— Anne Frank

122. “Sometimes I’m so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

— Anne Frank

123. “Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want, I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child, I feel quite indepedent of anyone.”

— Anne Frank

124. “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.”

— Anne Frank

125. “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.”

— Anne Frank

126. “Ordinary people don’t know how much books can mean to someone who’s cooped up.”

— Anne Frank

127. “I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.”

— Anne Frank

128. “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.”

— Anne Frank

129. “Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

131. “Who knows, perhaps he doesn’t care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.”

— Anne Frank

132. “Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I’d like to be.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

134. “I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it’s a woman’s duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!”

— Anne Frank

135. “It is becoming a bad dream – in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can’t get at him, I mustn’t show anything, must remain gay while I’m really in despair.”

— Anne Frank

136. “We’ve all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.”

— Anne Frank

137. “Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

— Anne Frank

138. “We’re not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that’ve had to.”

— Anne Frank

139. “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.”

— Anne Frank

140. “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.”

— Anne Frank

141. “You can get around to meaningful conversations more quickly in the dark than with the sun tickling your face.”

— Anne Frank

142. “I can’t let them see my doubts, or the wounds they’ve inflicted on me.”

— Anne Frank

143. “Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the “Secret Annexe.” The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.”

— Anne Frank

144. “I can’t help telling you that I’ve begin to feel deserted.”

— Anne Frank

145. “I have often been downcast, but never in despair;.”

— Anne Frank

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

— Anne Frank

147. “I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.”

— Anne Frank

148. “Another fact that doesn’t exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.”

— Anne Frank

149. “We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I’m probably not the only one.”

— Anne Frank

150. “At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn’t be able to stick out here.”

— Anne Frank