Anne Frank
German-born Jewish diarist whose record of two years in hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam annex became one of the most-read first-person documents of the twentieth century and a cornerstone text on conscience, dignity, and the human spirit. Born 1929 in Frankfurt, Anne and her family fled to the Netherlands in 1934; from July 1942 to August 1944 they lived hidden above her father Otto's spice-and-pectin business at Prinsengracht 263. Discovered and arrested, Anne died of typhus in Bergen-Belsen in February 1945 at fifteen. Her diary, recovered by Miep Gies and published by Otto in 1947 as Het Achterhuis (The Diary of a Young Girl), has been translated into more than seventy languages and remains among the defining moral testimonies of the modern age. Her sentence 'in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart' is one of the most-quoted lines in any language.
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Quotes by Anne Frank
108 quotes“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
“I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
“Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.”
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God.”
“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
“Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”
“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.”
“Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.”
“I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn.”
“Paper has more patience than people.”
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.”
“The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
“We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.”
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
“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.”
“It's difficult in times like these: ideals, dreams and cherished hopes rise within us, only to be crushed by grim reality.”
“I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness, I hear the approaching thunder, which will destroy us too, I feel the suffering of millions.”
“In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
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