Anne Frank

“We were caught in a vicious circle of unpleasantness and sorrow. Not a very happy period for either us, but at leasst it's coming to an end.”

“Why do I always think and dream the most awful things and want to scream in terror?”

“So why am I often miserable about what goes on here? Shouldn't I be happy, contented, and glad.”

“I had to hold my head up high and put a bold face on things, but the thoughts keep coming anyways.”

“I had an occasional flash of understanding, but then got selfishly wrapped up again in my own problems and pleasures.”

“I misjudged her, wasn't mature enough to understand how difficult it was for her.”

“We jumped for joy. After the awful events of yesterday, finally something good happens and brings us...hope! Hope for an end to the war, hope for peace.”

“Just as my heart sinks every time I hear her harsh words, that's how her heart sank when she realised there was no more love between us.”

“It's hard to tell the truth, and yet the truth is that she's the one who's rejected me.”

“I can't let them see my doubts, or the wounds they've inflicted on me.”

“All day long I hear nothing but what an exasperating child I am, and although I laugh it off and pretend not to mind, I wish I could ask God to give me another personality, one that doesn't antagonize everyone.”

“Leave me alone, let me have at least one night when I don't cry myself to sleep with eyes burning and my head pounding. Let me get away, away from everything, away from this world!”

“I'm seething with rage, yet I can't show it.”

“No one can keep out of conflict, the entire world is at war, and even though the allies are doing better, the end is nowhere in sight.”

“Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated.Children come back from school to find that their parents have disappeared. Women return from shopping to find their houses sealed, their families gone.”

“I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.”

“I can't help telling you that I've begin to feel deserted.”

“No matter what I'm doing, I cant help thinking about those who are gone. I catch myself laughing and remember that it's a disgrace to be so cheerful... This gloom will pass.”

“I get frightened myself when I think of close friends who are now at the mercy of the cruellest monsters ever to stalk the earth.”

“No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death.”

“Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.”

“Fine specimens of humanity, those Germans, and to think I'm actually one of them! No, that's not true, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. And besides, there are no greater enemies on earth than the Germans and the Jews.”

“It won't take long before I explode with pent-up rage.”

“I know I have my faults and shortcomings, but the blow them all out of proportion!”

“Harsh words and shouts are constantly being flung at my head, though I'm absolutely not used to it.”

“At any rate, Daddy usually comes to my defence. Without him I wouldn't be able to stick out here.”

“It's obvious that I'm a stranger to her; she doesn't even know what I think about the most ordinary things.”

“You seem it's the silence that makes me so nervous during the evenings and nights.”

“We just wanted to get out of there, to get away and reach our destination in safety. Nothing else mattered.”

“I was suffocating even before we left the house, but no one bothered to ask me how I felt.”

“So much has happened it's as if the whole world had suddenly turned upside down.”

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

“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!”

“beauty remains, even in misfortune”

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

“How wonderful that no one need wait a single moment to improve the world.”

“There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!”

“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”

“I have the feeling now that Peter and I share a secret. If he looks at me with those eyes that laugh and wink, then it’s just as if a little light goes on inside me. I hope it will remain like this and that we may have many, many more glorious times together!”

“I have now reached the stage that I don't care much whether I live or die. The world will still keep on turning without me; what is going to happen, will happen, and anyway it's no good to resist.”

“Chins up, stick it out, better times will come.”

“I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room.”

“I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are good at heart.”

“Creo que Peter quisiera tener la misma facilidad de expresión que yo; no sabe que su torpeza me enternece.”

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

“Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death”

“Time heals all wounds.”

“Despite everything, I believe people are really good at heart.”

“I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.”

“I have in my mind’s eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call “Mother” I find no trace of that image.”