Quotes from Anne Frank

Believe me, if you've been shut up for a year and a half, it can get to be too much for you sometimes. But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

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. […] I firmly believe that nature can bring confort to all who suffer.

Riqueza, prestígio, tudo pode ser perdido. A felicidade em seu coração pode ser diminuída; mas estará sempre lá, enquanto você viver, para torná-lo feliz de novo.

Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears.

The house shook and the bombs kept falling. I was clutching my "escape bag," more because I wanted to have something to hold on to than because I wanted to run away.

Mother thinks that Mrs. van D. is too stupid for words, Margot that she's too unimportant, Pim that she's too ugly (literally and figuratively!), and after long observation (I'm never prejudiced at the beginning), I've come to the conclusion that she's all three of the above, and lots more besides. She has so many bad traits, why should I single out just one of them? PS. Will the reader please take into consideration that this story was written before the writter's fury had cooled?

We're all alive, but we don't know why or what for; we are all searching for happiness; we are leading lives that are different and yet the same

If people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.

The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated.

Stupid people usually can't bear it when others do something better than they do ...

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

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.

The author of this book ciritcizes the youth of today from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as incapable of anything good.

Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world.

But there's one thing I can't do, and that's to love Mother with the devotion of a child. 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.

Today I have two things to confess. It's going to take a long time, but I have to tell them to someone, and you're the most likely candidate, since I know you'll keep a secret, no matter what happens.

Bonito pueblo el alemán, y pensar que en realidad yo también pertenezco a él! Pero no, hace mucho que Hitler nos ha convertido en apátridas.

teachers are the greatest freaks on earth,....

Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately, people shape their own characters.

Then the time would come once more when I no longer listened for the steps on the stairs and felt lonely and cried into my pillow every night.

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.

Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.

November 27th, 1943 It was mean of me to treat her that way, and now she was looking at me, oh so helplessly, with her pale face and beseeching eyes. If only I could help her! Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she's probably going to die? What's the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

De todos modos no hay enemistad más grande en el mundo que entre los alemanes y los judíos.