For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside …
Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.
To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.
The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.
Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered m...
Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there i...
I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
How much longer would our lives be lived from one last night to the next?
Even torture that is only verbal reinforce the power of the torturer: The prisoner's imagination leads him to dread the next round of interrogations. And when it happens, the feeling of inferiority be...
But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to...
Both the Jewish people and the Palestinian people have lost too many sons and daughters and have shed too much blood. This must stop, and all attempts to stop it must be encouraged.
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I hav...