Passage from Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
July 15,
1944
It’s really a wonder that I
haven’t dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible
to carry out.
Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I
still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can’t build
my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the
world gradually being turned into a wilderness. I hear the ever-approaching
thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and
yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that
this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return
again.
In the meantime, I must uphold
my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them
out.
Posted: Fri - November 1, 2002 at 06:42 PM