Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she’s probably going to die? What’s the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

— Anne Frank

Anne Frank Quotes

I understand my girlfriends better than my own mother. Isn’t that a shame?

— Anne Frank

Alone I had to face the difficult task of changing myself, to stop the everlasting reproaches, which were so oppressive and which reduced me to such terrible despondency.

— Anne Frank

Thursday, 5 August, 1943.

— Anne Frank

Dear God, I have everything I could wish for, while fate has her in its deadly clutches. She was as devout as I am, maybe even more so, and she too wanted to do what was right. But then why have I been chosen to live, while she’s probably going to die? What’s the difference between us? Why are we now so far apart?

— Anne Frank

Ordinarily people don’t know how much books can mean to someone whose cooped up. Our only diversions are reading, studying and listening to the wirelessly.

— Anne Frank

Expectation and hope generate tension, as does fear.

— Anne Frank

My parents are much too afraid of an argument to say anything, which is a shame, because I think people like that should always be given a taste of their own medicine.

— Anne Frank

If we can save even one of our friends, the rest doesn’t matter.

— Anne Frank

I’m surprised at my childish innocence. Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I’d like to be.

— Anne Frank

Who else but me can I turn to for comfort?

— Anne Frank

I’m finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!

— Anne Frank

Bep’s engaged! The news isn’t much of a surprise, though none of us are particularly pleased. Bertus may be a nice, steady, athletic young man, but Bep doesn’t love him, and to me that’s enough reason to advise her against marrying him.

— Anne Frank

I need my mother to set a good example and be a person I can respect, but in most matters she’s an example of what not to do.

— Anne Frank

Nine o’clock in the evening.

— Anne Frank

No matter how poor one is, one can still give others riches.

— Anne Frank

I mean that most people, married or single, stand inwardly alone.

— Anne Frank

In one Way or another, the day would come when my name would be a household word and my picture would occupy a place of honour in the memory book of every damp-eyed film fan.

— Anne Frank

Which books are ruined?” I asked Margot, who was going through them. “Algebra,” Margot said. But as luck would have it, my algebra book wasn’t entirely ruined. I wish it had fallen right in the vase. I’ve never loathed any book as much as that one.

— Anne Frank

In my imagination, the man I thought was trying to get inside the Secret Annex had kept growing and growing until he’d become not only a giant but also the cruelest Fascist in the world.

— Anne Frank

I am young and strong and living a great adventure.

— Anne Frank
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