Anne Frank Quotes (Author Of The Diary Of A Young Girl)

Anne Frank had a very mature mind even though she was young. She detailed her experiences when she and her family were hiding in the secret Annex.

Here are 80+ Anne Marie Quotes about Kindness, Love, and War and also express hope in times of war and troubled times.

Anne Frank Quotes

Enjoy the best Anne Frank Quotes and thoughts on peace, love, kindness, and hope.

• Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction. – Anne Frank
• Whoever is happy will make others happy too. – Anne Frank
• I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more. – Anne Frank
• How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. – Anne Frank
• 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
• The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands. – Anne Frank
• He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery! – Anne Frank
• I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains. – Anne Frank
• Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl? – Anne Frank
• 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
• If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself. – Anne Frank
• 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! – Anne Frank
• 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 independent of anyone. – Anne Frank
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• No one knows Anne’s better side, and that’s why most people can’t stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone’s had enough of me to last a month. – Anne Frank
• I have often been downcast but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary, I treat all the privations as amusing. – Anne Frank
• Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. – Anne Frank

• Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness. – Anne Frank
• In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit. – Anne Frank
• Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart. – Anne Frank
• Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl. – Anne Frank
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• We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. – Anne Frank
• I simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again. – Anne Frank
• I live in a crazy time. – Anne Frank
• I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‘light-hearted’ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‘deeper’ Anne is too weak. – Anne Frank
• I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
• When I write, I can shake off all my cares. – Anne Frank
• This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good. – Anne Frank
• Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
• If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise, they would think my mind rather queer. – Anne Frank
• My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her. – Anne Frank
• Because we’re Jewish, my father immigrated to Holland in 1933, where he became the managing director of the Dutch Opekta Company, which manufactures products used in making jam. – Anne Frank
• I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway. – Anne Frank
• I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem. – Anne Frank
• After May 1940, the good times were few and far between; first there was the war, then the capitulation, and then the arrival of the Germans, which is when the trouble started for the Jews. – Anne Frank

• “It’s really a wonder that I haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” ― Anne Frank
• “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “No one has ever become poor by giving.” ― Anne Frank, diary of Anne Frank: the play
• “Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank
• “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. 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. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be a comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “Because paper has more patience than people. ” ― Anne Frank
• “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
• “People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn’t women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, and martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?… Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together!” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “I think a lot, but I don’t say much.” ― Anne Frank

• “A quiet conscience makes one strong!” ― Anne Frank
• “You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.” ― Anne Frank
• “As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?” ― Anne Frank
• “But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else! It sounds egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.” ― Anne Frank
• “Memories mean more to me than dresses.” ― Anne Frank
• “Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery” ― Anne Frank
• “I wish to go on living even after my death.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.” ― Anne Frank
• “People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don’t necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven are things that a lot of people can’t accept, but still a religion, it doesn’t matter which, keeps a person on the right path. It isn’t the fear of God but the upholding of one’s own honor and conscience. How noble and good everyone could be if, every evening before falling asleep, they were to recall to their minds the events of the while 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; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that: “A quiet conscience mades one strong!” ― Anne Frank
• “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
• “The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever” ― Anne Frank
• “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, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my knowledge of myself. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider. The Anne of every day I can face entirely without prejudice, without making excuses for her, and watch what’s good and what’s bad about her. This ‘self-consciousness’ haunts me, and every time I open my mouth I know as soon as I’ve spoken whether ‘that ought to have been different’ or ‘that was right as it was.’ There are so many things about myself that I condemn; I couldn’t begin to name them all. I understand more and more how true Daddy’s words were when he said: ‘All children must look after their own upbringing.’ Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” ― Anne Frank
• “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, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “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
• “Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.” ― Anne Frank
• “The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” ― Anne Frank
• “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love it! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” ― Anne Frank
• “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
• “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
• “I don’t have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I’m not beautiful, intelligent, or clever, but I’m happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I’d like everyone else to be happy too.” ― Anne Frank
• “Ever since I was a little girl and could barely talk, the word ‘why’ has lived and grown along with me. It’s a well-known fact that children ask questions about anything and everything, since almost everything is new to them. That is especially true of me, and not just as a child. Even when I was older, I couldn’t stop asking questions. ― Anne Frank
• I have to admit that it can be annoying sometimes, but I comfort myself with the thought that “You won’t know until you ask,” though by now I’ve asked so much that they ought to have made me a professor. ― Anne Frank
• When I got older, I noticed that not all questions can be asked and that many whys can never be answered. As a result, I tried to work things out for myself by mulling over my own questions. And I came to the important discovery that questions that you either can’t or shouldn’t ask in public, or questions that you can’t put into words, can easily be solved in your own head. So the word ‘why’ not only taught me to ask, but also to think. And thinking has never hurt anyone. On the contrary, it does us all a world of good.” ― Anne Frank
• “Paper is more patient than man.” ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
• “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
• “Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!” ― Anne Frank
• “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
• “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. ― Anne Frank
• Whenever you’re feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you’ll know that you’re pure within and will find happiness once more.” ― Anne Frank
• “A voice within me is sobbing, “You see that’s what’s become of you. You’re surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking faces, people who dislike you, and all because you don’t listen to the advice of your own better half.” Believe me, I’d like to listen, but it doesn’t work, because if I’m quiet and serious, everyone thinks I’m putting on a new act and I have to save myself with a joke, and then I’m not even talking about my own family, who assume I must be sick, stuff me with aspirins and sedatives, feel my neck and forehead to see if I have a temperature, ask about my bowel movements and berate me for being in a bad mood, until I just can’t keep it up anymore, because when everybody starts hovering over me, I get cross, then sad, an finally end up turning my heart inside out, the bad part on the outside and the good part on the inside, and keep trying to find a way to become what I’d like to be and what I could be if . . . if only there were no other people in the world. ― Anne Frank
• “I can’t imagine how anyone can say: “I’m weak,” and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: “Because it’s so much easier not to!” ― Anne Frank
• “How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway… And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!” ― Anne Frank
• “The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs, and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there’s not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? ― Anne Frank
• Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?” ― Anne Frank

• “Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone.” ― Anne Frank
• Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude. ― Anne Frank
• 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
• An empty day, though clear and bright, is just as dark as any night. ― Anne Frank
• The young are not afraid of telling the truth. ― Anne Frank
• I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out. ― Anne Frank, Anne-frank-quote-upholding-ideals
• “You can be lonely even when you’re loved by many people since you’re still not anybody’s ‘one and only’.” ― Anne Frank

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