Anne Frank
Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.Collection: Christian
In the book Soldiers on the Home Front, I was greatly struck by the fact that in childbirth alone, women commonly suffer more pain, illness and misery than any war hero ever does. An what's her reward for enduring all that pain? She gets pushed aside when she's disfigured by birth, her children soon leave, hear beauty is gone. Women, who struggle and suffer pain to ensure the continuation of the human race, make much tougher and more courageous soldiers than all those big-mouthed freedom-fighting heroes put together.Collection: Children
I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.Collection: Helping
At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.Collection: Daddy
I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!Collection: Children
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbingCollection: Sleep
I also have a brand-new prescription for gunfire jitters: When the shooting gets loud, proceed to the nearest wooden staircase. Run up and down a few times, making sure to stumble at least once. What with the scratches and the noise of running and falling, you won't even be able to hear the shooting, much less worry about it. Yours truly has put this magic formula to use, with great success!Collection: Running
I don't dare do anything anymore, 'cause I'm afraid it's not allowed.Collection: Causes
by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.Collection: Thinking
I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.Collection: Inspirational
I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.Collection: Inspirational
Another fact that doesn't exactly brighten up our days is that Mr. Van Maaren, the man who works in the warehouse, is getting suspicious about the Annex.Collection: War
One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.Collection: Modest
Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?Collection: Letters
I do my best to please everybody, far more than they'd ever guess. I try to laugh it all off, because I don't want to let them see my trouble.Collection: Laughing
Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.Collection: Thinking
The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.Collection: May
There's only one rule you need to remember: laugh at everything and foget everybody else! It sound egotistical, but it's actually the only cure for those suffering from self-pity.Collection: Inspiring
As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?Collection: Sweet
Sometimes I think God is trying to test me, both now and in the future. I'll have to become a good person on my own, without anyone to serve as a model or advise me, but it'll make me stronger in the end.Collection: Thinking
I have often been downcast, but never in despair.Collection: Despair
Older people have formed their opinions about everything, and don't waver before they act. It's twice as hard for us young ones to hold our ground, and maintain our opinions, in a time when all ideals are being shattered and destroyed, when people are showing their worst side, and do not know whether to believe in truth and right and God.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Beautiful
Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)Collection: Children
Memories mean more to me than dresses.Collection: Inspirational
There's plenty of room for everyone in the world. Enough money, riches, and beauty for all to share. God has made enought for everyone, so let us all begin then by sharing it fairly.Collection: World
People who have a religion should be glad, for not everyone has the gift of believing in heavenly things.Collection: Inspirational
I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.Collection: Inspirational
If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example.Collection: Holocaust
We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.Collection: People
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.Collection: Writing
If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.Collection: Book
Why are millions spent on the war each day, while not a penny is available for ... artists or the poor? Why do people have to starve when mountians of food are rotting away in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?Collection: Crazy
There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated, and grown will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over againCollection: War
Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.Collection: Strong
Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.Collection: Wisdom
Our many Jewish friends and acquaintances are being taken away in droves. The Gestapo is treating them very roughly and transporting them in cattle cars to Westerbork, the big camp in Drenthe to which they're sending all the Jews....If it's that bad in Holland, what must it be like in those faraway and uncivilized places where the Germans are sending them? We assume that most of them are being murdered. The English radio says they're being gassed.Collection: Taken
We've all been a little confused this past week, because our dearly beloved Westertoren bells have been carted off to be melted down for the war, so we have no idea of the exact time, either night or day.Collection: Confused
Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of "diary," to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.Collection: Notebook
Paper has more patience than people.Collection: Inspirational
If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.Collection: Care
I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, I can't do anything to change events anyway.Collection: Death
Earning happiness means doing good and working, not speculating and being lazy. Laziness may look inviting, but only work gives you true satisfaction.Collection: Work
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.Collection: Hope
I love the time I spend with you. You make my living worth-while. Why dint I meet you before. I wish I could start my life From the beginning with you because the time I spend with you is never enough. I need you more everyday.Collection: Long
I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.Collection: Beautiful
As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?Collection: Inspirational
An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.Collection: Inspirational
Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?Collection: Crazy