Aushwitz Quotes & Sayings

Believe nothing till it's officially denied. — David Mitchell

The Romans feared their dead. In fact, Roman funeral customs derived from a need to propitiate the sensibilities of the departed. The very word funus may be translated as dead body, funeral ceremony, or murder. There was a genuine concern that, if not treated appropriately, the spirits of the dead, or manes, would return to wreak revenge — Catharine Arnold

My Aunt Marsha ruled the family with a rod of iron. She was one wicked, mean woman. — Karolyn Grimes

For an instant he was able to cross the line and understand this strange loyalty of Jew to Jew. Those Jews who lived free in England were only there due to some quirk of fate instead of Aushwitz and every Jew knew that genocide could have happened to his own family except for that quirk of fate.
Yet, as time stood suspended, Gilray was all gentiles who never quite understood Jews. He could befriend them, work with them, but never totally understand them. He was all white men who could never quite understand black men and all black men who could never quite understand whites. He was all normal men who could tolerate or even defend homosexuals ... but never fully understand them.
There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different. — Leon Uris

I was always amazed about how much I could finally squeeze into a thirty second commercial. — Ridley Scott

In the daytime, I know that they're (Russians) close. But at night, my optimism abandons me, I buckle. The night is German, and who am I against the night? — Ana Novac

Mostly, I'd just like to look over the country around the gorge again, just to bring some of it clear in my mind again. I been away a long time. — Ken Kesey

Humor is a reminder that no matter how high the throne one sits on, one sits on one's bottom. — Taki Theodoracopulos

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. — Lev Grossman

My stomach sank. "I don't want you to be miserable."
"Then don't go," he said. His expression was so desperate that the guilt formed a lump in my throat.
"I can't move in here, Travis. That's crazy."
"Says who? I just had the best two weeks of my life."
"Me, too."
"Then why do I feel like I'm never gonna see you again? — Jamie McGuire

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra. — Roland Joffe

Not any more. Not according to Glory Goblin or Brontes the Cyclops. Imbri merely confirms that Hugo has perfected his talent, and is now a good deal smarter and handsomer than before. A woman has to be responsible. — Piers Anthony

The untold want, by life and land ne'er granted,
Now, Voyager, sail thou forth, to seek and find. — Walt Whitman

And here's why it worked: man or woman, gay, straight, bisexual, you name it, we all just want to be teased. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Those who think of metaphysics as the most unconstrained or speculative of disciplines are misinformed; compared with cosmology, metaphysics is pedestrian and unimaginative. - Stephen Toulmin — Sean Carroll

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor. — Jack Nicholson

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

For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first it is quite impossible. You make yourself better than anybody, then worse than anybody, and when you finally come to see you are "like" everybody - that is the bitterest blow of all to the ego. But in the end it is only the truth, no matter how ugly or shameful, that is right, that fits together, that makes real people, and strangely enough - beauty ... — Louise Brooks