“Time is so long when there is suffering and so short when there is happiness.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Someday you will grow up and find that there will be times in your life that you will feel hatred and vengeance and then some days you will be forgiving and understanding.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“prisoners talk, trying to figure out the”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“To live, that was all that mattered.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“of WHY? and HOW CAN THE WORLD LET THIS HAPPEN? I thought of our beloved Rabbi, who had been tortured and killed.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“It was with heart-felt gratitude to this country that had saved my life that I served in the U. S. Army to fight for freedom. Above all, I will forever remember those men that fought for the liberation of the European Jews and helped to ensure the freedom and democracy for the United States of America. God Bless. -”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“The depression was the great leveler of mankind. From this I learned a lot about human nature. With survival foremost in each person's mind, jealousy, envy and cowardice became apparent in our small community. Soup”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“burdens shared are always easier to bear.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Yesterday is in the past and we will never retrieve it, we can only move forward.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Time is long when you suffer and short when you are happy. We”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Upon entering the town there was a Gestapo man with a noose around his neck, hanging for everyone to see. I went over and stared at this man dangling in the air, lifeless. I had no feelings one way or another for this man. I was numb in my heart. I tried to hate him and tell myself he was no good and deserved to die, but I felt empty inside. The only thing I noticed was his shoes that he wouldn't need any longer, so I untied them and put them on my feet.”
― quote from Outcry - Holocaust memoirs
“Humor is the most faithful supporting actor in a tragedy. So”
― Herbjørg Wassmo, quote from Dina's Book
“Air travel reminds us who we are. It’s the means by which we recognize ourselves as modern. The process removes us from the world and sets us apart from each other. We wander in the ambient noise, checking one more time for the flight coupon, the boarding pass, the visa. The process convinces us that at any moment we may have to submit to the force that is implied in all this, the unknown authority behind it, behind the categories, the languages we don’t understand. This vast terminal has been erected to examine souls.”
― Don DeLillo, quote from The Names
“You are too late," he cried proudly, "I have shot the Wendy. Peter will be so pleased with me."
Overhead Tinker Bell shouted "Silly ass!" and darted into hiding.”
― J.M. Barrie, quote from Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens / Peter and Wendy
“For when all is equilibrated, when all is beheld from without all, there is joy, joy, joy that is but one facet of a diamond, every other facet whereof is more joyful than joy itself.”
― Aleister Crowley, quote from The Book of Lies
“In heaven, Lucas would be beautiful. He’d speak a language everyone understood.”
― Michael Cunningham, quote from Specimen Days
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