Concentration camp Quote by Bryce Courtenay

“I spoke the language the sentences that had lied their grandfathers and sent their grandmothers to the worlds first concentration camps.”

— Bryce Courtenay

“Tell me about your first breath of foreign air, about the history that filled your lungs. Tell me about the memories you made in…

— Tyler Kent White

“The rule is, don't speak of the dead, not don't speak ill of the dead's terrible relatives.”

— Erin McKean

“What the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire…

— T.S. Eliot

“Today most of us speak, think and dream in imperial languages that were forced upon our ancestors by the sword.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When words fail, then real language arrives, that rare guest.”

— Carolyn Chun

“I picked up a new language a few months ago. It was just laying on the ground, dirty, so I scooped it up and…

— Jarod Kintz

“My brain scrambled to make room for the existene of these people. Grandparents I'd never known. They went from hypothetical, empty memories to blurry,…

— Megan Miranda

“i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too…

— Colette

“He spoke in english. Not flawlessly by any means. Not like a Nazi POW camp commandant who appreciates english poetry and says things like…

— Alex Garland

“... for I had reached a point in my life when I came to view words differently. A closer look at language could reveal…

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“They had lived their older lives like strangers from different shipwrecks, washed up on the same island, without the benefit of a common language.”

— Tracy Guzeman