quotes by Diarist Quotes

“Riches can all be lost, but that happiness in your own heart can only be veiled, and it will bring you happiness again, as long as you live.”

“I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to leap out and reveal itself in all its magnitude.”

“I wish to go on living even after my death.”

“Don't be too assuming, it doesn't get you anywhere.”

“There's something happening everyday, but I'm too tired and lazy to write it all down.”

“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.”

“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.”

“How wonderful it is that we can start doing good at this very moment.”

“Paper has more patience than people.”

“I think a lot, but I don't say much.”

“Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.”

“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”

“What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.”

“I don't have much in the way of money or worldly possessions, I'm not beautiful, intelligent or clever, but I'm happy, and I intend to stay that way! I was born happy, I love people, I have a trusting nature, and I'd like everyone else to be happy too.”

“Live with the objective of being happy.”

“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.”

“I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.”

“A quiet conscience makes one strong!”

“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.”

“And you can always, always, give kindness”

“I... keep trying to find a way to become what I'd like to be and what I could be if... if only there were no other people in the world.”

“If the truth is told, things are just as bad as you yourself care to make them.”

“Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.”

“How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!”

“I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”

“I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.”

“You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.”

“As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.”

“The question is very understandable, but no one has found a satisfactory answer to it so far. Yes, why do they make still more gigantic planes, still heavier bombs and, at the same time, prefabricated houses for reconstruction? Why should millions be spent daily on the war and yet there's not a penny available for medical services, artists, or for poor people? Why do some people have to starve, while there are surpluses rotting in other parts of the world? Oh, why are people so crazy?”

“Don't condemn me, remember rather that sometimes I, too, can reach the bursting point.”

“One gets on better in life if one is not over modest.”

“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”

“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!”

“When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived.”

“Everyone thinks I'm showing off when I talk, ridiculous when I'm silent, insolent when I answer, cunning when I have a good idea, lazy when I'm tired, selfish when I eat one bite more than I should.”

“I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning without me, and I can't do anything to change events anyway.”

“I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.”

“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!”

“Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.”

“Let's not talk about it any more, but if you still want anything please write to me about it, because I can say what I mean much better on paper.”

“An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“by thinking, nobody can ever get worse but will only get better.”

“As long as you're in the food business, why not make sweets?”

“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.”

“it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.”

“The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.”

“No one ever was the poorer for giving”

“Where there is hope...there is life”

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”