Top 10 Anne Frank Quotes (Most Famous)
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
— Anne Frank
In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.
— Anne Frank
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
— Anne Frank
No one has ever become poor by giving.
— Anne Frank
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.
— Anne Frank
People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn’t stop you from having your own opinion.
— 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
Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.
— Anne Frank
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery.
— Anne Frank
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
— Anne Frank
10 Beautiful Anne Frank quotes from The Diary of a Young Girl
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 school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.
— Anne Frank
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve 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
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
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, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
— 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
It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.
— Anne Frank
What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.
— Anne Frank
I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
— Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
— Anne Frank
Anne Frank Quotes About Life
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
— 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
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
— 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
Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.
— Anne Frank
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
— Anne Frank
A quiet conscience makes one strong!
— Anne Frank
I’ve learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!
— 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
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
Memories mean more to me than dresses.
— Anne Frank
Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.
— 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
Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
— Anne Frank
Anne Frank quotes about Humanity
I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.
— Anne Frank
Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your 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 your pure within and will find happiness once more.
— Anne Frank
Still,” she writes, “what does that matter? 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
The first thing I put in was this diary, then hair curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb, old letters; I put in the craziest things with the idea that we were going into hiding. But I’m not sorry, memories mean more to me than dresses.
— 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 only then can you judge their true characters!
— Anne Frank
Nice people, the Germans! To think that I was once one of them too! No, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. In fact, Germans and Jews are the greatest enemies in the world.
— Anne Frank
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
— Anne Frank
Anne Frank quotes about Hope
I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!
— Anne Frank
I could go on for hours about all the suffering the war has brought, but then I would only make myself more dejected. There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death.
— Anne Frank
If I just think of how we live here, I usually come to the conclusion that it is a paradise compared with how other Jews who are not in hiding must be living.
— Anne Frank
I hope I will be able to confide everything to you, as I have never been able to confide in anyone, and I hope you will be a great source of comfort and support.
— Anne Frank
I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. . . . [They loom] before us like an impenetrable wall, trying to crush us, but not yet able to. I can only cry out and implore, “Oh ring, ring, open wide and let us out!
— Anne Frank
16 Inspirational Anne Frank Quotes About Love and Gratitude
I’ve found that there is always some beauty left – in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.
— Anne Frank
Whoever is happy will make others happy.
— 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
Sympathy, love, fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
— Anne Frank
I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.
— 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
I simply can’t build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death.
— Anne Frank
I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.
— Anne Frank
Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.
— Anne Frank
But feelings can’t be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.
— 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?
— 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
I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
— Anne Frank
People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.
— Anne Frank
If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
— Anne Frank
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
— Anne Frank
More Anne Frank Quotes and sayings
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
Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart.
— 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
No one has ever become poor by giving.
— 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 simply can’t build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death… I think… peace and tranquillity will return again.
— Anne Frank
The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
— 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
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
— Anne Frank
I live in a crazy time.
— Anne Frank
He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!
— 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 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
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
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, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
— 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
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
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
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
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
— Anne Frank
When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
— 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
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
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
Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‘a quiet conscience makes one strong!’
— Anne Frank
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
