Anne Frank
German-born Jewish diarist whose record of two years in hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam annex became one of the most-read first-person documents of the twentieth century and a cornerstone text on conscience, dignity, and the human spirit. Born 1929 in Frankfurt, Anne and her family fled to the Netherlands in 1934; from July 1942 to August 1944 they lived hidden above her father Otto's spice-and-pectin business at Prinsengracht 263. Discovered and arrested, Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in February 1945 at fifteen. Her diary, recovered by Miep Gies and published by Otto in 1947 as Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl), has been translated into more than seventy languages and remains among the defining moral testimonies of the modern age. Her sentence 'in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart' is one of the most-quoted lines in any language.
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Quotes by Anne Frank
108 quotes“I firmly believe that nature can bring comfort to all who suffer.”
“As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that you're pure within and will find happiness once more.”
“It is not the result that counts! It is the will, the boldness, the moral effort.”
“Lazy people generally do not get on in life.”
“There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and forget everybody else!”
“Sounds egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.”
“I've now reached the stage where I can live a bit for myself.”
“It's twice as hard for us young people to hold our ground and maintain our opinions in a time when ideals are being shattered and destroyed.”
“When people are good for the sake of being good, that's when goodness shines through.”
“Big shots and politicians and capitalists and all the rest of them must really be such fools.”
“It's no fun being fourteen.”
“You don't always have to put your beliefs above all else.”
“You only really get to know a person after a fight. Only then can you judge their true character!”
“I can recapture everything when I write — my thoughts, my ideals, my fantasies.”
“Without my diary, without my fantasies, without writing, I'd be lost.”
“Diaries are written for one's own pleasure, not as required reading.”
“There is 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.”
“I keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.”
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