Quote

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

Anne Frank

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Frank
Age: 15 †
Born: 1929
Born: June 12
Died: 1945
Died: March 31
Author
Diarist
Writer
Frankfurt/Main
Anna Frank
Anne Maries Frank
Ana Frank
Anne M. Frank
Annelies Marie Frank
Food
Peace
Away
Rots
Live
Surplus
Everything
Elsewhere
Must
Destroyed
World
Hungry
People
Crazy

More quotes by Anne Frank

Image
it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.
Anne Frank
Image
I think a lot, but I don't say much.
Anne Frank
Image
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and capitalists alone, are guilty of war. Oh no, the little man is just as guilty, otherwise the peoples of the world would have risen in revolt long ago!
Anne Frank
Image
We lit the stove a few days ago and the entire room is filled with smoke. I prefer central heating, and I'm probably not the only one.
Anne Frank
Image
I can't imagine how anyone can say: I'm weak, and then remain so. After all, if you know it, why not fight against it, why not try to train your character? The answer was: Because it's so much easier not to!
Anne Frank
Image
We're not the only people that have had to suffer, there have always been people that've had to.
Anne Frank
Image
There's one golden rule to keep before you: laugh about everything and don't bother yourself about the others!
Anne Frank
Image
Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank
Image
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. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.
Anne Frank
Image
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
Anne Frank
Image
I believe that in the course of the next century the notion that it's a woman's duty to have children will change and make way for the respect and admiration of all women, who bear their burdens without complaint or a lot of pompous words!
Anne Frank
Image
No one ever was the poorer for giving
Anne Frank
Image
One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I don't know what else. I'm afraid I shall use up all my brains too quickly, and I haven't got so very many. Then I shall not have any left for when the war is over.
Anne Frank
Image
Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook, bearing the proud name of diary, to anyone, unless I find a real friend, boy or girl, probably nobody cares. And now I come to the root of the matter, the reason for my starting a diary: it is that I have no such real friend.
Anne Frank
Image
Those who have courage and faith shall never perish in misery
Anne Frank
Image
Even when I was older, I couldn't stop asking questions.
Anne Frank
Image
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.
Anne Frank
Image
You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.
Anne Frank
Image
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.
Anne Frank
Image
He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.
Anne Frank