Appelfeld Aharon Quotes

#1. People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.

Aharon Appelfeld

#2. Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.

Aharon Appelfeld

#3. My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.

Aharon Appelfeld

#4. The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.

Aharon Appelfeld

#5. I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

Aharon Appelfeld

#6. Anger's not a good emotion.

Lincoln Chafee

#7. I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.

Aharon Appelfeld

#8. You know what a wifey means? It's like your other half. Like when you get married, like, that's your wife!

Rita Ora

#9. The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.

Aharon Appelfeld

#10. The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.

Frederick Lenz

#11. We do not want to be giving quality sides such as Southampton, Palace, Norwich and the rest eight or nine points start and expect to get back up with them.

Paul Ince

#12. It's a considerable source of tragedy in the world that people stay in powerful jobs long past the point where they're a spent force.

Bill Keller

#13. A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.

Aharon Appelfeld

#14. We live in a culture where everything tastes good but nothing satisfies.

Daniel Pinchbeck

#15. I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.

Aharon Appelfeld

#16. If he leaves you with a car alarm heart, you learn to sing along.

Sarah Kay

#17. God's codpiece, you're very kind

Laurie Lee

#18. Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted

Aharon Appelfeld

#19. The music that I make, the younger musicians are referring to it as 'stretch' music.

Christian Scott

#20. The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

Elizabeth Montgomery

#21. Most people felt lost after high school. Sometimes I felt like I'd never really been found in the first place.

Lish McBride

#22. A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren't born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.

Aharon Appelfeld

#23. I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream

Aharon Appelfeld

#24. I love buying things. I could be one of those crazy hoarders.

Anna Chancellor

#25. I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.

Eddie Redmayne

#26. God has never made a mistake. Ever.

Ray Lewis

#27. A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way.

Julia Cameron