Quotes About Hope

When I think about our lives here, I

Thursday, 6 January, 1944

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Pensavo che bisognava nascondersi e cacciavo invece nella borsa le cose più assurde. Ma non me ne rammarico, ci tengo di più ai ricordi che ai vestiti.

I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven't yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for... everything.

Let me out, where there's fresh air and laughter! a voice within me cries.

I'm in a state of utter confusion, don't know what to read, what to write, what to do. I only know that I'm longing for something...

Uma pessoa feliz tornará as outras felizes; uma pessoa com coragem e fé nunca morrerá na desgraça!

Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside.

Vreau s? continui s? tr?iesc, chiar ?i dup? ce am murit.

Adónde habría llegado la maravillosa niña que, sin saberlo, ha escrito esta especie de obra maestra?

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?

let my own children read her books

Let the end come, even if it is hard, then at least we shall know whether we are finally going to win through or go under.

I've known a lot of sorrow, but who hasn't at my age?

whatever the circumstances. I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.

Who else but me can I turn to for comfort?

There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.

Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.

I want to go on living even after death

Nos veo a los ocho y a la Casa de atrás, como si fuéramos un trozo de cielo azul, rodeado de nubes de lluvia negras, muy negras. La isla redonda en la que nos encontramos aún es segura, pero las nubes se van acercando, y el anillo que nos separa del peligro inminente se cierra cada vez más. Ya estamos tan rodeados de peligros y de oscuridad, que la desesperación por buscar una escapatoria nos hace tropezar unos con otros. Miramos

I'm very calm and take no notice of all the fuss. I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway. I'll just let matters take their course and concentrate on studying and hope that everything will be all right in the end.

I believe that it's spring within me, I feel that spring is awakening, I feel it in my whole body and soul.

A little later I felt hopeful and full of expectation again, though my tears were still flowing -- on the inside.