29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank

“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.”

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“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”

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“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.”

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“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.”

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

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

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“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.”

Anne Frank

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl