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

Whoever is happy will make others happy, too

There’s only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it’s actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with...

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

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...

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.

I’m sentimental–I know. I’m desperate and silly–I know that too. Oh, help me!

Acting is really cool.

Paper is more patient than man.

Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.

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

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn’t matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what’s...

The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated...

Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.

Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old...

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

And Then They Came for Me

People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things. You don’t necessarily even have to be afraid of punishment after death; purgatory, hell, and heaven...

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your...

Little bundle of contradictions

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don’t cry alone.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are still truly good at heart,

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

Who would ever think that so much can go on in the soul of a young girl?

I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can’t do anything to change events anyway.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

How true Daddy’s words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a...

the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.

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...

There is a saying that “paper is more patient than man”;it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up...

I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don’t acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women’s share in society is.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Anne Frank — A History for Today

Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.

It is becoming a bad dream– in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can’t get at him, I mustn’t show anything, must remain gay while I’m...

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.