Quotes from Miep Gies

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard.

I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

Children who use the Internet are much better informed than when I was young. Use this to your advantage.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

My story is a story of very ordinary people during extrgordinarily terrible times. Times of which I hope will never, never come again. It is for all of us ordinary people all over the world to see that they do not.

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

We did our duty as human beings: helping people in need.

Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.

in silence we all shared the same sorrow and memories.

It is often said that Anne symbolizes the six million victims of the Holocaust. I consider this statement wrong. Anne's life and death were her own individual fate, an individual fate that happened six million times over.