Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God mak...
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
Just as there are predatory birds, so there are predatory ideas: I came under their spell. . . .Just as the survivors say that no one will ever understand the victims, what I must tell you is that you...
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition.
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic...
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
I looked up at my father’s face, trying to glimpse a smile or something like it on his stricken face. But there was nothing. Not the shadow of an expression. Defeat.
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded.
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living.
A man can laugh while he suffers.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply rhan love. Love risks degenerating into obsession friendship is never anything but sharing.
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
Every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .
You shouldn’t act as a spokesperson for someone who’s trying to impose his will on you.
We’re on the threshold of death. Soon, we shall be inside …
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...
The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.