Holocaust Literature Quotes

#1. I grew up reading Holocaust literature at the beach, Gulag literature on winter holidays, Vietnam memoirs on spring break.

Michael Hastings

#2. Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky.

Elie Wiesel

#3. Nothing about these times makes any sense. Nothing. Putting it to words only makes it sound too simple.

Ralph Webster

#4. Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.

Patrick DeWitt

#5. This is hell. Today, in our times, hell must be like this. A huge, empty room: we are tired, standing on our feet, with a tap which drips while we cannot drink the water, and we wait for something which will certainly be terrible, and nothing happens and nothing continues to happen.

Primo Levi

#6. There's literary creation and literary business. When I first got something accepted, it gave my life a validation it didn't otherwise have.

Raymond Carver

#7. Destruction doesn't create a vacuum, it simply transforms presence into absence.

Anne Michaels

#8. Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people

Heinrich Heine

#9. Writing a new play shouldn't be seen as a mystery belonging to a priesthood, but as a challenge, a technical challenge, just to get into it.

Tom Stoppard

#10. I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

Sean Bean

#11. We never actually listen to anything because our mind is not free; our ears are stuffed up with those things that we already know, so listening becomes extraordinarily difficult.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#12. Made this card especially for you
because today's a special day,
I wanted it to be wonderful
I wanted it to say,
hope everything you wish for,
comes true on this your birthday.

Susan Smith

#13. I can tell you that events were incremental, that the unbelievable became the believable and, ultimately, the normal.

Ralph Webster

#14. I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

AraabMuzik

#15. The kindest thing you can offer an author is a review and a star rating. So appreciated.
THE GOLDEN PEACOCK has had a successful 5-star run on Goodreads and on Amazon. Thank you!" Lauren B. Grossman

Lauren B. Grossman

#16. I'm always thinking about what I'm missing. Even when I'm happy with what I have.

Alyson Noel

#17. I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

Jerry Spinelli

#18. Sexually progressive cultures gave us literature, philosophy, civilization and the rest, while sexually restrictive cultures gave us the Dark Ages and the Holocaust.

Alan Moore

#19. He told me that what he owned and accumulated didn't matter. He still had his family. We still had our future. Go forward, You can't look back. It will destroy you if you do... Ever since that day, I have seen the world through a different prism.

Ralph Webster

#20. Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.

Richie Norton

#21. This is the second Old Master I have encountered that has the signatures of another artist forged over it. A painting that has been created by another artist entirely. It's like they played mix and match.

Dayna S. Rubin

#22. The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom.

Francis Bacon

#23. I thought those were others. Soon, I was to learn that they were us.

Ralph Webster

#24. Sometimes there doesn't seem to be any right or wrong, just circumstances. You make the best decision you can at the time and move on.

George W. Parker

#25. The tombstones smashed in Hebrew cemeteries and plundered for Polish sidewalks; today bored citizens, staring at their feet while waiting for a bus, can still read the inscriptions.

Anne Michaels

#26. I've attempted to flood the path with light where I could, and where I could not I've wanted at least to hold up a candle so that others coming this way might not stumble too painfully.

Jim Beaver

#27. you. It kept her so busy while she was here. The

Tracy Rees

#28. What motivates me more than money are God and my family.

Albert Pujols

#29. When a man dies, his secrets bond like crystals, like frost on a window. His last breath obscures the glass.

Anne Michaels