Anne Frank Quotes

German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (1929–1945)

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Annelies Marie Frank (12 June 1929 – February/March 1945) was a young German-born Jewish diarist and aspiring writer, who died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

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Native Name: Annelies Marie Frank

Alternative Names: Anna Frank • Anne Maries Frank • Anne M. Frank • Anna M Frank

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You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true characters!

I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can help you. Look at these things, then find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance.

I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.

I want to see the world and do all kinds of exciting things, and a little money won't hurt.

I have always been the dunce, the never-do-well of the family, I've always have to pay double for my deeds, first with the scolding and then again because of the way my feelings are hurt.

As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?

There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!

Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don't cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!

Work, love, courage and hope,
Make me good and help me cope!

But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.

I don't think my opinions are stupid but other people do, so it's better to keep them to myself.

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