The full name of Anne Frank is Annelies Marie Frank. She was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish origin. Here the best, famous, inspirational Anne Frank quotes on life, love, family, hope, death, hiding, fear, war, holocaust. She is the author of “The Diary of A Young Girl”.
Anne Frank was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, and died in February 1945 in Stalag XI-C, Germany. She spent most of her life near Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Anne Frank quotes
“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
“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
“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
“If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.” – Anne Frank
“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
“People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.” – Anne Frank
“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
“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First, we make our choices. Then our choices make us.” – Anne Frank
“Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio is our amusements.” – Anne Frank
“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.” – Anne Frank
“I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, 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 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
“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
“This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.” – Anne Frank
“Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.” – Anne Frank
“A person who’s happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery.” – Anne Frank
“I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker – a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.” – Anne Frank
“Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!” – 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 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
“I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.” – Anne Frank
“As long as you’re in the food business, why not make sweets?” – Anne Frank
“But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.” – 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! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” – Anne Frank
“In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.” – Anne Frank
“Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?” – Anne Frank
“People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.” – Anne Frank
“There’s something happening every day, but I’m too tired and lazy to write it all down.” – Anne Frank
“Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don’t cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me getaway, away from everything, away from this world!” – 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
“I’ve learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!” – Anne Frank
“The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!” – Anne Frank
“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.” – 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
“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
“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
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.” – Anne Frank
“I won’t be a writer.” – Anne Frank
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.” – Anne Frank
“I’m sentimental–I know. I’m desperate and silly–I know that too. Oh, help me!” – Anne Frank
“The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever” – Anne Frank
“Dead people receive more flowers than living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.” – Anne Frank
“I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyway.” – Anne Frank
“Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.” – Anne Frank
“Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time since it’s impossible to kill.” – Anne Frank
“I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.” – Anne Frank
“I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I’ve always had to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.” – Anne Frank
“I can’t let them see my doubts, or the wounds they’ve inflicted on me.” – Anne Frank
“Leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing” – 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
“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
“No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
“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
“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
“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.” – Anne Frank
“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
“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
“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
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank
“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
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.” – Anne Frank
“What’s the point of the war? Why, oh why can’t people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?” – 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
“In the future, I’m going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.” – Anne Frank
“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
“Whoever is happy will make others happy.” – Anne Frank
“But I’ve slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he’ll have to use a harder crowbar!” – Anne Frank
“Don’t condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.” – Anne Frank
“One gets on better in life if one is not overly modest.” – Anne Frank
“It must be awful to feel you’re not needed.” – Anne Frank
“You must work and do good, not be lazy, and gamble if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.” – Anne Frank
“Who knows, perhaps he doesn’t care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.” – 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
“Misfortunes never come singly.” – Anne Frank
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – 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.” – Anne Frank
“A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people because he is still not the “One and Only” to anyone.” – 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 basic goodness.” – Anne Frank
“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank
“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
“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.” – Anne Frank
“People can so easily be tempted by slackness… and by money.” – Anne Frank
“Because paper has more patience than people.” – Anne Frank
“An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.” – Anne Frank
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