Top 200 Anne Frank Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “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

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

— Anne Frank

153. “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

154. “Even when I was older, I couldn’t stop asking questions.”

— Anne Frank

155. “Live with the objective of being happy.”

— Anne Frank

156. “I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters she’s an example of what not to do.”

— Anne Frank

157. “Better a day too early than a day too late.”

— Anne Frank

158. “Take a look,” I said. “If you want to find inner happiness, go outside on a nice day with lots of sun and blue sky. Even if you stand at a window and look out over the city at the cloudless sky, like we’re doing now, you’ll eventually find happiness.”

— Anne Frank

159. “Peter added, “The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!” I answered, “Just this once, I hope they’ll be chosen for something good!”

— Anne Frank

160. “Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through them. “Algebra,” Margot said. But as luck would have it, my algebra book wasn’t entirely ruined. I wish it had fallen right in the vase. I’ve never loathed any book as much as that one.”

— Anne Frank

161. “I’m surprised at my childish innocence. Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I’d like to be.”

— Anne Frank

162. “Ordinarily people don’t know how much books can mean to someone whose cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wirelessly.”

— Anne Frank

163. “Believe me, if you’ve been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.”

— Anne Frank

164. “If we can save even one of our friends, the rest doesn’t matter.”

— Anne Frank

165. “In my imagination, the man I thought was trying to get inside the Secret Annex had kept growing and growing until he’d become not only a giant but also the cruelest Fascist in the world.”

— Anne Frank

166. “It’s not the fault of the Dutch that we Jews are having such a bad time.”

— Anne Frank

167. “I believe that it’s spring within me, I feel that spring is awakening, I feel it in my whole body and soul.”

— Anne Frank

168. “Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.”

— Anne Frank

169. “First, there’s the rose – the queen of the flowers; she’s so beautiful and her fragrance is so intoxicating that it goes to everyone’s head, most of all her own. The rose is beautiful, sweet-smelling and elegant, but if things aren’t going her way, she shows her thorns. She’s like a spoiled child – beautiful, elegant and seemingly nice as can be, but if you touch her or talk to someone else so that she’s no longer the center of attention, out come her claws.”

— Anne Frank

170. “Ik voel als ik eraan denk, vandaag nog zijn wang tegen de mijne met dat heerlijke gevoel dat alles goed maakt.”

— Anne Frank

171. “I am young and strong and living a great adventure.”

— Anne Frank

172. “Wednesday, July 7, 1943.”

— Anne Frank

173. “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.”

— Anne Frank

174. “Most people are blinded by the outer glow. If they’d been allowed to vote, very few people would have picked the rose. The rose is majestic and beautiful, and just as in the real world, no one asks the flowers whether a bloom which is outwardly less pretty might actually be inwardly more beautiful and more fit to rule.”

— Anne Frank

175. “Stupid people usually can’t bear it when others do something better than they do;.”

— Anne Frank

176. “My parents are much too afraid of an argument to say anything, which is a shame, because I think people like that should always be given a taste of their own medicine.”

— Anne Frank

177. “I shall not remain insignificant, I shall work in the world for all mankind!”

— Anne Frank

178. “Friday, December 10, 1942.”

— Anne Frank

179. “Do any of those people in their warm and cozy living rooms have any idea what kind of life a beggar leads? Do any of those “good” and “kind” people ever wonder about the lives of so many of the children and adults around them? Granted, everyone has given a coin to a beggar at some time or another, though they usually just shove it into his hand and slam the door.”

— Anne Frank

180. “No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches.”

— Anne Frank

181. “I’ll show them that Anne Frank wasn’t born yesterday. They’ll sit up and take notice and keep their big mouths shut when I make them see they ought to attend to their own manners instead of mine.”

— Anne Frank

182. “Yes, in the sense that I felt a certain contentment. Not always, mind you. I moaned and groaned from time to time. But I was never downright depressed again, probably because I realized that sadness comes from feeling sorry for yourself and happiness from joy.”

— Anne Frank

183. “I’m finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!”

— Anne Frank

184. “Don’t condemn me, but think of me as a person who sometimes reaches the bursting point!”

— Anne Frank

185. “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.”

— Anne Frank

186. “No matter what I’m doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it’s a disgrace to be so cheerful... This gloom will pass.”

— Anne Frank

187. “After that I was free to enjoy the rest of my unforgettable vacation, and now that I had seen the life of the stars up close, I was cured once and for all of my delusions of fame.”

— Anne Frank

188. “They were pale, and didn’t say a word when Cady entered the room. Had they been sitting like this every night for months? Seeing all those pale and frightened faces was awful. With each bang of an outside door, a shock went through everyone in the room, as if the door to life itself were symbolically being slammed shut.”

— Anne Frank

189. “Nine o’clock in the evening.”

— Anne Frank

190. “I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there’s not much you can do about inherited traits.”

— Anne Frank

191. “Sometimes old people have really old-fashioned ideas, but that doesn’t mean I have to go along with them. I need my grandparents, but in a certain sense they need me too.”

— Anne Frank

192. “I thanked the interesting old lady and I now know that so-called interesting men owe their reputation to their looks alone.”

— Anne Frank

193. “Of course, there are those who blow you kisses or try to take hold of your arm, but they’re definitely knocking on the wrong door.”

— Anne Frank

194. “In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan.”

— Anne Frank

195. “When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived! But, and that’s a big question, will I ever be able to write something great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”

— Anne Frank

196. “Actually, what you’re hoping to find when you’re depressed is happiness. Even if you miss a lot because you have no one to talk to, once you’ve found your own inner happiness, you’ll never lose it. I don’t mean this in terms of material things, but in a spiritual sense. I believe that once your own inner happiness has been found, it might go underground for a while, but it will never be lost!”

— Anne Frank

197. “Thursday, 5 August, 1943.”

— Anne Frank

198. “I’m my best and harshest critic.”

— Anne Frank

199. “It’s all right for me to have boys as friends.”

— Anne Frank

200. “Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she’s probably going to die? What’s the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?”

— Anne Frank