Quotes from Anne Frank

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.

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

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

Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.

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

Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your own heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there, as long as you live, to make you happy again.

I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to! I don't want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I've never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

No, I'm not afraid, except when it comes to things about myself, but I'm working on that.

Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death

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

I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.

What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.