He could hardly read or write but his heart spoke the language of the good.

To accuse another of having weak kidneys, lungs, or heart, is not a crime; on the contrary, saying he has a weak brain is a crime. To be considered s….

The bond between a man and his profession is similar to that which ties him to his country; it is just as complex, often ambivalent, and in general i….

To destroy a man is difficult, almost as difficult as to create one: it has not been easy, nor quick, but you Germans have succeeded. Here we are, do….

He was a physicist, more precisely an astrophysicist, diligent and eager but without illusions: the Truth lay beyond, inaccessible to our telescopes,….

But many, many stories were told; from what could be gathered, all fifty of the mine's inhabitants had reacted on each other, two by two, as in combi….

In history and in life one sometimes seems to glimpse a ferocious law which states: to he that has, will be given; from he that has not, will be take….

Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become eras….

Is anything sadder than a trainThat leaves when it's supposed to,That has only one voice,Only one route?There's nothing sadder.Except perhaps a cart ….

Today I think that if for no other reason than that an Auschwitz existed, no one in our age should speak of Providence..

We collected in a group in front of their door, and we experienced within ourselves a grief that was new for us, the ancient grief of the people that….

This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in….

For he who loses all often easily loses himself..

The sea's only gifts are harsh blows and, occasionally, the chance to feel strong..

If a writer is convinced that he is honest, then it is very difficult for him to be a bad writer..

The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if th….

My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die..

They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would prove ….

The aims of life are the best defense against death..

I too entered the Lager as a nonbeliever, and as a nonbeliever I was liberated and have lived to this day..

The work of bestial degradation, begun by the victorious Germans, had been carried to its conclusion by the Germans in defeat..