“Love is like the moon: if it's not waxing, it's waning, but it's the same as the last time, always the same.”

“Everything has its price: sorrow for happiness; birth for love; death for birth.”

“The war is going on, and I'm singing. But I can't bandage up the wounded like Tala. I can, of course. But so can hundreds of other young women. Let the daring and decisive ones do it, not those like me. No, I'm daring and decisive, too. And I want to sing. It's not my fault that my youth came in time of war! I won't get another youth! And I'm convinced that singing when all around is hatred and death is no less important. Maybe even more important.This is what I believe: If somewhere on earth the wounded are finished off with rifle butts, that means somewhere else people have to be singing and rejoicing in life! The more death there is around, the more important to counter it with life, love, and beauty!”

“If beauty and love do not suit the times, then you have to be beautiful and to love to spite the times!”

“Since everyone can't be happy anyway, whoever can be happy right now, should. You have to be happy today, right now, no matter what. Someone said there can't be a heaven if there's a hell. Supposedly it's impossible to be in heaven if you know suffering exists somewhere. Nonsense. True enjoyment of life can only be felt if you've known suffering.”

“All the rest, besides my loving and being loved, has no importance whatsoever.”

“People rarely die from love, but they are frequently born from it.”