Quotes about Identity
It's an odd idea for someone like me to keep a diary; not only because I have never done so before, but because it seems to me that neither I - nor for that matter anyone else - will be interested in the unbosomings of a thirteen-year-old school girl.
— Anne Frank
What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
— Anne Frank
I know I'm far from being what I should; will I ever be?
— Anne Frank
If only I can be myself, I'll be satisfied.
— Anne Frank
I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
— Anne Frank
broken pocket mirror to try and catch a glimpse of me in the classroom.
— Anne Frank
Peter added, "The Jews have been and always will be the chosen people!" I answered, "Just this once, I hope they'll be chosen for something good!
— Anne Frank
Can you tell me why people go to such lengths to hide their real selves? Or why I always behave differently when I'm in the company of others? Why do people have such little trust in one another? I know there must be a reason, but sometimes I think it's horrible that you can't confide in anyone, not even those closest to you.
— Anne Frank
I can't keep that up...finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and what I could be, if...there weren't any other people living in the world.
— Anne Frank
how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.
— Anne Frank
One day this terrible war will be over. The time will come when we'll be people again and not just Jews!
— Anne Frank
I have in my mind's eye an image of what a perfect mother and wife should be; and in her whom I must call "Mother" I find no trace of that image.
— Anne Frank