Anne Frank Quotes in The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)

Anne Frank: I know it's terrible trying to have any faith when people are doing such horrible... But you know what I sometimes think? I think the world may be going through a phase, the way I was with mother. It'll pass. Maybe not hundreds of years, but someday. - I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are really good at heart.

[last lines]

Anne Frank: [voiceover] In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Otto Frank: [spoken] She puts me to shame.

Anne Frank: You know the most wonderful part of thinking yourself outside. You can have it any way you like. You can have rows of roses and violets all blooming in the same season, isn't that wonderful!

Anne Frank: You know we're going to forget how to dance.

Anne Frank: You know what I do when I think I can't stand another minute cooped up? I think myself outside.

Anne Frank: Our blessed radio. It gives us eyes and ears out into the world. We listen to the German station only for good music. And we listen to the BBC for hope.

Margot: Sometimes I wish the end would come, whenever.

Mrs. Edith Frank: Margot!

Margot: At least we'd know where we were.

Mrs. Edith Frank: You should be ashamed of yourself, talking that way. Think how lucky we are, think of the thousands dying in the war every day, think of the people in concentration camps.

Anne Frank: What's the good of that? What's the good of thinking of misery when you're already miserable?

Anne Frank: Already I know what I want to do, don't you. I want to be a journalist or something. I love to write.

Anne Frank: I want to go on living even after I'm dead.

Anne Frank: We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.

Anne Frank: I've never heard grownups quarrel before

Mr. Hans Van Daan: It's not a quarrel, it's a discussion. And I've never heard children so rude before.

Anne Frank: [Peter has removed the Star of David badge from his coat] You took off your star.

Peter Van Daan: That's right.

Anne Frank: You can't do that. They arrest you if you go out without your star.

Peter Van Daan: Who's going out?

Anne Frank: What are you going to do with it?

Peter Van Daan: Burn it.

Anne Frank: I don't think I could burn mine. I don't know why.

Peter Van Daan: You couldn't? Something they made you wear so they could kick you around?

Anne Frank: I know, but after all, it is the Star of David, isn't it?

Anne Frank: Margot, Margot, Margot. That's all I ever hear: how good Margot is.

Anne Frank: I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Anne Frank: We try and hold on to some kind of ideals, when everything - ideals, hope, everything is being destroyed.

Mrs. Edith Frank: Let me see your tongue.

Anne Frank: [opens her mouth]

Peter Van Daan: [opens his door] Quack.