Anne Frank: Trending quotes (page 4)

“but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use a harder crowbar!”

“Misfortunes never come singly.”

“Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”

“I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.”

“Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.”

“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.”