Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. "

Related Quotes:

" I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. "

" Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. "

" Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. "

" Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. "

" For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share. "

" For me, every hour is grace. "

" I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Violence is a language. "

" It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed. "

" There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. "

" I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again. "

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough. "

" Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. "

" Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning. "

" In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die. "

" Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. "

" When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. "

" It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionist or non-Zionist, Ashkenazi or Sephardic - all these will not exist without Israel. "

" Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. "

" After all, God is God because he remembers. "

" The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. "

" When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. "

" That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. "

" What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically. "

" I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. "

" I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born. "

" Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another. "

" Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. "

" In Jewish history there are no coincidences. "

" I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it. "

" I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. "