Quotes from Anne Frank

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people, because he is still not the One and Only to anyone.

But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.

What's the point of the war? Why, oh why can't people live together peacefully? Why all this destruction?

Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.

We aren't allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn't stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn't be prevented from saying what they think.

The best remedy for those who are frightened, lovely 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.

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.

I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.

It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.

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