Quotes from Anne Frank

Calisthenics:

We, too, shall have to move on again with our little bundles, and leave this beautiful country, which offered us such warm welcome and which now turns it back on us. I love Holland, I who, having no native country, had hoped that it might become my fatherland, and I still hope it will!

My parents are pleased, but they're not like other parents when it comes to grades. They never worry about report cards, good or bad. As long as I'm healthy and happy and don't talk back too much, they're satisfied. If these three things are all right, everything else will take care of itself.

don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.

In bed at night, as I ponder my many sins and exaggerated shortcomings, I get so confused by the sheer amount of things I have to consider that I either laugh or cry, depending on my mod. Then I fall asleep with the strange feeling of wanting to be different than I am or being different than I want to be, or perhaps of behaving differently than I am or want to be.

As long as this exists," I thought, "this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?" The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere they can be alone, alone with the sky, nature and God. For then and only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature's beauty and simplicity.

but teachers are the most unpredictable creatures on earth.

All we can do is wait, as calmly as possible, for it to end. Jews and Christians alike are waiting, the whole world is waiting, and many are waiting for death.

We long for Saturdays because that means books. We're like a lot of little children with a present. Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wireless.

Me da mucho miedo pensar en todas las personas con quienes me he sentido siempre tan íntimamente ligada y que ahora están en manos de los más crueles verdugos que hayan existido jamás. Y todo por ser judíos.

Do any of those people in their warm and cozy living rooms have any idea what kind of life a beggar leads? Do any of those "good" and "kind" people ever wonder about the lives of so many of the children and adults around them? Granted, everyone has given a coin to a beggar at some time or another, though they usually just shove it into his hand and slam the door.

Nou?, tinerilor, ne este de dou? ori mai greu s? ne susÈ›inem opiniile într-o vreme în care tot ce înseamn? idealism e distrus È™i zdrobit, în care oamenii îÈ™i arat? partea cea mai urât?, în care se pun sub semnul îndoielii adev?rul, justiÈ›ia È™i Dumnezeu.

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam.

I argued that talking is a female trait and that I would do my best to keep it under control, but that I would never be able to break myself of the habit, since my mother talked as much as I did, if not more, and that there's not much you can do about inherited traits.

Anyone can put on a fine coat of varnish outside.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill it.

keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be

Asta-i dificultatea timpului nostru: idealul, visele, speranÈ›ele frumoase nici nu apuc? s? apar? bine, È™i numaidecât sunt lovite de realitatea atroce È™i distruse cu totul.

You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's one and only.

not, they proceed to the next house.

Pim is expecting the invasion any day now. Churchill has had pneumonia, but is gradually getting better. Gandhi, the champion of Indian freedom, is on one of his umpteenth hunger strikes.

I soothe my conscience with the thought that it's better for unkind words to be down on paper than for Mother to have to carry them around in her heart.

Tengo a mis parientes, a mis tías, que son muy buenas, y un buen hogar. Al parecer no me falta nada, salgo la amiga del alma.

Stundenlang könnte ich von all dem Elend erzählen, das der Krieg mit sich bringt, aber das macht mich nur noch trauriger. Es bleibt uns nichts anderes übrig, als ruhig und gefasst das Ende dieser Notzeit abzuwarten. Die Juden warten und die Christen warten. Der gesamte Erdball wartet...viele warten auf ihren Tod!