Quotes from Anne Frank

A los jóvenes nos resulta difícil conservar nuestras opiniones en unos tiempos en los que se destruye y se aplasta cualquier idealismo

And now I have a question for you. 'Do you also put clothes on the flowers you've picked and refuse to talk about their delicate parts?' I don't think there's a very big difference between people and nature, and since we're also a part of nature, why should we be ashamed of the way nature made us?

Whenever someone comes in from outside, with the wind in their clothes and the cold on their cheeks, I feel like burying my head under the blankets to keep from thinking, "When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?

I lie in bed at night, after ending my prayers with the words 'Ich danke dir für all das Gute und Liebe und Schöne' (Thank you, God, for all that is good and dear and beautiful)

I've learned one thing: you only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!

Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date.

Realizar una cosa fácil no demanda ningún esfuerzo. Hay que practicar el bien y trabajar para merecer la dicha, y no se llega a ella a través de la especulación y la pereza. La pereza seduce, el trabajo satisface.

It is impossible for me to be all sugar one day and spit venom the next. I'd rather choose the golden mean (which is not so golden), keep my thoughts to myself, and try for once to be just as disdainful to them as they are to me. Oh, if only I could!

When will we be allowed to breathe fresh air again?

Up to now reason has always won the battle, but will my emotions get the upper hand? Sometimes I fear they will, but more often I actually hope they do! Oh

Espero confiártelo todo como hasta ahora no he podido hacerlo con nadie; confío, también, en que tú serás para mí un gran sostén. Ana Frank 12 de junio de 1942

Make the most of your carefree young life as you can.

I continued to sit with the open book in my hand and wonder why I was filled with so much anger and hate that I had to confide it all to you. I tried to understand the Anne of last year and make apologies for her, because as long as I leave you with these accusations and don't attempt to explain what prompted them, my conscience won't be clear.

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

I feel as if I were about to explode. I know crying would help, but I can't cry. I'm restless.

PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writer's fury had cooled?

I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.

Keep your spirits up! I'm doing my best, though it's not always easy. Your time may come sooner than you think.

Every child has to raise itself.' Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction.

It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.

The war is going to go on despite our quarrels and our longing for freedom and fresh air, so we should try to make the best of our stay here.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

DimineaÈ›a suntem normali, dup?-amiaza cam tot aÈ™a, cu unele excepÈ›ii, dar seara dorinÈ›a de peste zi, fericirea È™i deliciile tuturor d??ilor precedente redevin vii È™i nu mai facem altceva decât s? ne gândim unul la cel?lalt.

There's only one thing to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!