Edgar Hilsenrath Quotes

#1. In Germany people want to make up to the Jews for what happened by idealizing them.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#2. I felt guilty because I survived.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#3. Possibly from the outside this looks determinedly individual. Nobody realises what a mess of loneliness and inadequacy I am inside.

Lindsay Anderson

#4. We would play songs live on stage, and then we'd watch their reaction we were receiving immediately, if people were dancing and singing along. If they weren't, then we'd go into the dressing rooms of the different NBA teams that we were playing in their arenas, and we'd change the songs right there.

Michael Franti

#5. I've done a lot of death cartoons - tombstones, Grim Reaper, illness, obituaries ... I'm not great at analyzing things, but my guess is that maybe the only relief from the terror of being alive is jokes.

Roz Chast

#6. The Israeli mentality was totally different to mine. They just didn't understand people like me. They couldn't understand why I had been in a ghetto. We were totally different.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#7. There are two words you won't find in Europe: "mercy" and "free".

Srinath Perur

#8. I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#9. Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

Dan Harris

#10. Almost all sadness comes from feeling sorry for oneself.

Marty Rubin

#11. I don't know what hurts more...those moments I ache for you to be here or those moments when you are here and I wonder if it is the last time I will feel you.

Kat Daughtry

#12. The Armenian genocide was also a Holocaust, but it wasn't my Holocaust.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#13. The real problem is that there's a tendency to associate ageing with loss and decline and things that aren't desirable. But experiencing all that there is to experience in life - whether that's at the age of ten or thirty or fifty or eighty - is what life is all about.

S. Jay Olshansky

#14. Fame and me just don't go together. It's not always a fair process.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#15. After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards.

Dean Koontz

#16. The Jews in the ghetto were every bit as imperfect as human beings anywhere else.

Edgar Hilsenrath

#17. My men can eat their belts, but my tanks have gotta have gas.

George S. Patton

#18. Do you know what forever love is? Pearl taught me. It's when you love somebody so much that no matter what happens that'll never change. Like even if you're gone. It's still the same. Even if you die. You die, but not the love. Not forever love. Know what I mean?

Catherine Ryan Hyde