Best Anne Frank Quotes

Anne Frank Quotes About Death, Kindness, Love, Hope, Family, Writing & Inspirational! One of the most victims of the Holocaust who has to get more attention and notoriety is Anne Frank. She was born in Frankfurt, Germany, on June 12, 1929. When Anne was born at a time in Germany of political turmoil. Otto Frank was a hardworking guy who put forth a lot of effort to get the family’s financial situation under control.

She got a position at Opekta Works, a firm that supplied fruit extract pectin, and then started her own company after working there for a while. Anne enrolled in a Montessori school to begin her education. She was an extrovert who was also friendly and outgoing. She had always had a passion for reading, and she eventually acquired a habit of writing.

After the German invasion of the Netherlands in 1940, Anne and her family could not leave the country. In Addition, they decided to hide in a warehouse to evade the persecution of Jews that the Nazis were carrying out. Over more than two years, Anne wrote in her journal with a remarkably advanced consciousness for someone of her age. She spoke in depth about her life and the lessons she learned while she and her family were on the run, continually fearing that authorities would apprehend them.

The diary kept by Anne Frank is a record of her comprehension of the war. It demonstrates her fantastic storytelling ability despite the horrific conditions she was living. They were discovered and transported to prison camps in 1944. Sole Otto Frank, the only surviving member of the Frank family, survived the Holocaust. After the war, Otto went to Amsterdam, where he discovered her daughter’s journal, which he eventually published under The Diary of a Young Girl.

Best Anne Frank Quotes

1. “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.” – Anne Frank

2. “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.” – Anne Frank

3. “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.” – Anne Frank

4. “We aren’t allowed to have any opinions. People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but it doesn’t stop you having your own opinion. Even if people are still very young, they shouldn’t be prevented from saying what they think.” – Anne Frank

5. “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?” – Anne Frank

6. “It’s difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality. It’s a wonder I haven’t abandoned all my ideals, they seem so absurd and impractical. Yet I cling to them because I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.” – Anne Frank

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

8. “I don’t think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.” – Anne Frank

9. “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.” – Anne Frank

10. “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.” – Anne Frank

11. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” – Anne Frank

12. “I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.” – Anne Frank

13. “I’ve found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you.” – Anne Frank

14. “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank

15. “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.” – Anne Frank

16. “Because paper has more patience than people.” – Anne Frank

17. “The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. As longs as this exists, and it certainly always will, I know that then there will always be comfort for every sorrow, whatever the circumstances may be. And I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.” – Anne Frank

18. “Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.” – Anne Frank

19. “I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!” – Anne Frank

20. “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.” – Anne Frank

21. “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.” – Anne Frank

22. “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.” – Anne Frank

23. “Still,” she writes, “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.” – Anne Frank

24. “The first thing I put in was this diary, then hair curlers, handkerchiefs, schoolbooks, a comb, old letters; I put in the craziest things with the idea that we were going into hiding. But I’m not sorry, memories mean more to me than dresses.” – Anne Frank

25. “Nice people, the Germans! To think that I was once one of them too! No, Hitler took away our nationality long ago. In fact, Germans and Jews are the greatest enemies in the world.” – Anne Frank

26. “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” – Anne Frank

27. “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!” – Anne Frank

28. “I could go on for hours about all the suffering the war has brought, but then I would only make myself more dejected. There is nothing we can do but wait as calmly as we can till the misery comes to an end. Jews and Christians wait, the whole earth waits; and there are many who wait for death.” – Anne Frank

29. “If I just think of how we live here, I usually come to the conclusion that it is a paradise compared with how other Jews who are not in hiding must be living.” – Anne Frank

30. “Sympathy, Love, Fortune… We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!”― Anne Frank