Childhood Quote by Milan Kundera

“Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and…

— Viktor Frankl

“If the war had taught her anything, it was to take nothing for granted: that it wasn’t safe to put off what mattered. Life…

— M.L. Stedman

“Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for…

— Nicolas Bouvier

“At times she's so basic, at others so wise it frightens me that I got so far in this world without the benefit of…

— Diane Keaton

“She found a deep sense of fitness in the fact that here, among people, they should be strangers; strangers and enemies. She thought, these…

— Ayn Rand

“She could not explain in so many words, but she felt that those who prepare for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip…

— E. M. Forster

“It had always fascinated her - what happens when things break down, what are the basic units of life?”

— Tatjana Soli

“She was an object lesson on the essential luck, whatever hardships may come their way, of those born able to make things.”

— Diana Athill

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“She had discovered early that what we want out of life can change; that the important thing is to learn to recognize or even…

— Candice Proctor

“The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even…

— Han Kang

“when what she needed was something concrete, some small final memory to slip its hand in hers and accompany her—sightless now, stumbling—through this sudden…

— Donna Tartt