Anne Frank: Trending quotes (page 4)

“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.”

“Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.”

“It must be awful to feel you're not needed.”

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

“I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right.”

“This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.”

“In the future I'm going to devote less time to sentimentality and more time to reality.”

“leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing”

“I get cross, then sad, and finally end up turning my heart inside out, and keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if…. if only there were no other people in the world.”

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

“I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!”

“I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”

“An empty day, though clear and bright,
Is just as dark as any night.”

“I think it's odd that grown-ups quarrel so easily and so often and about such petty matters. Up to now I always thought bickering was just something children did and that they outgrew it.”

“This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.”

“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 that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As long as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.”

“A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery”

“There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”

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