Quote by Imre Kertész

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read.

— Imre Kertész

“Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate.”

— Imre Kertész

“On one occasion she had spoken heatedly about the French Revolution, saying it had been little better than the Nazis. Her great-aunt responded by…

— Imre Kertész

“As we pass one step, and as we recognize it as being behind us, the next one already rises up before us. By the…

— Imre Kertész

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

— Imre Kertész

“I can see the young man on dizzily autumn mornings, the fog of which he inhaled just like the rapidly evaporating freedom.”

— Imre Kertész

Nonexistence. The society of the nonexistent. In the street yesterday a nonexistent person trod on my foot with his nonexistent foot.

— Imre Kertész

“The West in general should stand up more for its own values. It is not always worthwhile to compromise.”

— imre kertesz

One cannot start a new life, you can only continue the old one.

— Imre Kertész

Of course, living is another way of killing oneself: its drawback is that it takes so horribly long.

— Imre Kertész

Man, when reduced to nothing, or in other words, a survivor, is not tragic but comic, because he has no fate. On the other…

— Imre Kertesz

“I read somewhere; while God still existed one sustained a dialogue with God, and now that He no longer exists one has to sustain…

— Imre Kertész