“إن رد الفعل غير السوي إزاء موقف غير سوي هو استجابة سوية”

“Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.”

“No-one will be able to make us believe that man is a sublimated animal once we can show that within him there is a repressed angel.”

“One evening, when we were already resting on the floor of our hut, dead tired, soup bowls in hand, a fellow prisoner rushed in and asked us to run out to the assembly grounds and see the wonderful sunset. Standing outside we saw sinister clouds glowing in the west and the whole sky alive with clouds of ever-changing shapes and colors, from steel blue to blood red. The desolate grey mud huts provided a sharp contrast, while the puddles on the muddy ground reflected the glowing sky. Then, after minutes of moving silence, one prisoner said to another, "How beautiful the world could be...”

“There are things which must cause you to lose your reason or you have none to lose”

“Having been is also a kind of being, and perhaps the surest kind.”

“We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.”