“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”

“We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.”

“I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”

“Torture is the act of making someone die a slow death, making the prisoner die several times.”

“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”