Anne Frank
Women should be respected as well! Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?...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: Pain
I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that every-thing will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.Collection: Encouraging
Love, what is love? I don't think you can really put it into words. Love is understanding someone, caring for him, sharing his joys and sorrows. This eventually includes physical love. You've shared something, given something away and received something in return, whether or not you're married, whether or not you have a baby. Losing your virtue doesn't matter, as long as you know that for as long as you live you'll have someone at your side who understands you, and who doesn't have to be shared with anyone else!Collection: Baby
I have often been downcast, but never in despair; I regard our hiding as a dangerous adventure, romantic and interesting at the same time. In my diary I treat all the privations as amusing. I have made up my mind now to lead a different life from other girls and, later on, different from ordinary housewives. My start has been so very full of interest, and that is the sole reason why I have to laugh at the humorous side of the most dangerous moments.Collection: Girl
You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.Collection: Lazy
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.Collection: Children
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.Collection: Motivational
I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?Collection: Grateful
Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.Collection: Inspirational
You must work and do good, not be lazy and gamble, if you wish to earn happiness. Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.Collection: Giving
People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.Collection: Inspirational
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.Collection: Writing
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world!Collection: Thinking
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.Collection: Christian
I feel wicked sleeping in a warm bed, while my dearest friends have been knocked down or have fallen into a gutter somewhere out in the cold night. I get frightened when I think of close friends who have now been delivered into the hands of the cruelest brutes that walk the earth. And all because they are Jews!Collection: Sleep
But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible!Collection: Revenge
Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.Collection: Inspirational
I haven't written for a few days, because I wanted first of all to think about my diary. It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I-nor for that matter anyone else-will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen -year -old schoolgirl. Still, what does that matter? 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: Lying
Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. 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: War
The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.Collection: Inspirational
I want something from Daddy that he is not able to give me. ... It is only that I long for Daddy's real love: not only as his child, but for me - Anne, myself.Collection: Children
It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.Collection: Dream
We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.Collection: One Day
Thinking about the suffering of those you hold dear can reduce you to tears; in fact, you could spend the whole day crying.Collection: Thinking
Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.Collection: Stupid
Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.Collection: Inspirational
I'm sentimental--I know. I'm desperate and silly--I know that too. Oh, help me!Collection: Silly
It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.Collection: Long
Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.Collection: Sleep
Who knows, perhaps he doesn't care about me at all and look at the others in just the same way.Collection: Looks
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.Collection: Reading
There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.Collection: Writing
I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.Collection: Inspirational
Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my own efforts, without examples and without good advice.Collection: Believe
It must be awful to feel you're not needed.Collection: Awful
I simply can't imagine the world will ever be normal again for us. I do talk about "after the war," but it's as if I'm talking about a castle in the air, something that can never come true.Collection: War
I must work, so as not to be a fool, to get on, to become a journalist, because that's what I want!... I can't imagine that I would have to lead the same sort of life as Mummyand all the women who do their work and are then forgotten. I must have something besides a husband and children, something that I can devote myself to!Collection: Children
This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.Collection: Wish
Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.Collection: Self
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 school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.Collection: Girl
And you can always, always, give kindnessCollection: Kindness
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains....My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. Think of all the beauty that's still left in and around you and be happy!Collection: Beauty
But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.Collection: Inspirational
The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!Collection: Inspirational
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.Collection: Inspirational
Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.Collection: Beautiful
The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.Collection: World
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.Collection: Courage
Misfortunes never come singly.Collection: Misfortunes