Anne Frank Quotes

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

I don't really have a best friend.

Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

I am private.

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.

I'm good at keeping secrets. My friends always tell me their secrets because I keep them well.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Sometimes it's nice for people not to know anything about me.

I'm just as sick as the others, although I prefer to do my sickness in private.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

A secret is a weapon and a friend.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I've always been super-private and protective of certain experiences and certain friends.

In life, usually, even if you live in a big city, you can count on your fingers on one hand how many real friends you have; that's human.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

I don't want anybody to know anything about me.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

Three may keep counsel, if two be away.

Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody.

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine.

Still, it's nice to have one person who knows all your secrets.