Gerda Weissmann Klein

Survival is both an exalted privilege and a painful burden.

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“My experience has taught me that all of us have a reservoir of untapped strength that comes to the fore at moments…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

I pray you never stand at any crossroads in your own lives, but if you do, if the darkness seems so total,…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“There were no golden trumpets to proclaim our freedom. There were no liberators in sight.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“Not fair to light a spark of hope, to see a grim mouth smile?”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

Pain should not be wasted.

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“I quickly get interested in people but just as quickly avoid them when they expect to be my only friends. I ams…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“Ilse, a childhood friend of mine, once found a raspberry in the concentration camp and carried it in her pocket all day…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“Then she sighed, released his hand and , looking at him, shook her head and whispered, "Too late.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

I had created a happy world of make-believe around me during the long years of loneliness, a world of beauty and love.…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“My thoughts and emotions center on him: there has never been a "you and me," but always "we" and "us".”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“My mind was so dull, my nerves so worn from waiting, that only an emotionless vacuum remained.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“That makes it more difficult to speak of the past, because the memories are apt to turn into the living present.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

Imagine a world, in which your entire possession is one raspberry, and you give it to your friend.

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“You are going through mud but your feet are still clean.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“It was always uncertainty that i feared most.”

— Gerda Weissmann Klein

“He said I could make him happy. Then I understood the cause of my sadness. I didn't want to make anybody happy.…

— Gerda Weissmann Klein