Anne Frank Quotes

“I’ve reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can’t do anything to change events anyway.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“And finally, I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“I have a family, loving aunts, and a good home. No, on the surface I seem to have everything except my one true friend. All I think about when I’m with friends is having a good time. I can’t bring myself to talk about anything but ordinary everyday things. We don’t seem to be able to get any closer, and that’s the problem.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“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!” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“If I haven’t any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well—then I can always write for myself.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel all is as it should be.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“Annelies Marie Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany on June 12, 1929, to her parents Edith and Otto Heinrich Frank.”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“Although I’m only fourteen, I know quite well what I want. I know who is right and who is wrong. I have my opinions, my own ideas and principles, and although it may sound pretty mad from an adolescent, I feel more of a person than a child. I feel quite independent of anyone.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.” —Anne Frank”
― Hourly History, Anne Frank: A Life From Beginning to End