Quotes by Anne Frank

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you dont know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

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.

Im currently in the middle of a depression. I couldnt really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.

At such times Daddy, Mummy and Margot leave me cold. I wander from one room to another, downstairs and up again, feeling like a songbird whose wings have been clipped and who is hurling himself in utter darkness against the bars of his cage. Go outside, laugh, and take a breath of fresh air, a voice cries within me, but I dont even feel a response any more; I go and lie on the divan and sleep, to make the time pass more quickly, and the stillness and terrible fear, because there is no way of killing them.

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

I want friends, not admirers. People who respect me for my character and my deeds, not my flattering smile. The circle around me would be much smaller, but what does that matter, as long as theyre sincere?

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

How true Daddys 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 persons character lies in their own hands.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

Im sentimental--I know. Im desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

Its just that when youre standing beside an open window at twilight, you can say more toeach other than in bright sunshine. Its also easier to whisper your feelings than toshout them from the rooftops.

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

But feelings cant be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

You are all made of real poop.

but ive slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, hell have to use a harder crowbar!

You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character

The art of living. Isnt that a funny expression?