Quotes About Adversity

It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

Quite honestly, I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to!

And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

I can easily quote the saying: Misfortunes never come singly.

Friday, December 10, 1942

Nosotros cuatro todavía estamos bien, y así hemos llegado al día de hoy, 20 de junio de 1942, fecha en que estreno mi diario con toda solemnidad.

Thursday, 15 June, 1944

beauty remains, even in misfortune.

I start by getting snappy, then unhappy, and finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if…there weren't any other people living in the world.

Considérame simplemente como un ser que a veces siente que el cáliz de su amargura está lleno hasta los bordes.

As you can see, I'm currently in the middle of a depression.

what are you supposed to do if you become part of the suffering? You'd be completely lost. On the contrary, beauty remains, even in misfortune.

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The Diary of a Young Girl

I see the eight of us in the Annexe as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds.

You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on.

Y estoy convencida de que la naturaleza es capaz de paliar muchas cosas terribles, pese a todo el horror.

Trebuie s? devin bun? singur?, f?r? exemple È™i f?r? discursuri, asta pentru ca mai târziu s? fiu cât mai puternic?.

Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. Only

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!

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.

not, they proceed to the next house.

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.

Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.