Author of quotes: Anna Seghers

For him, this man left. He watered him, he wounded his soul with his departure. He could return at least a thousand times - they parted forever.

I heard her bargaining, buying a candle, which she wanted to light for the salvation of her soul.

I was free, paid for the room a month in advance, and most importantly - I did not die, which means I was lucky three times - so lucky as few people are lucky now.

There we came face to face with a cruel, terrible enemy, and it seemed to us that it was impossible to bear. But then we realized that this obvious enemy was still better than an invisible mysterious evil - all these rumors, all this bribery, all this deception.

When it’s scary, it’s better to do something, to be exhausted than to wait for death, shivering like a chicken to a kite. The ability to act in the face of death has nothing to do with courage.

Only death can part forever, but not goodbye, not departure.
Very much also depends on us.

For a woman like her, is to save the whole nation.

When you bleed out on the ground, which was your mother, you can't just disappear without a trace, you give rise to a new life, just as the roots of the felled tree, give the new shoots.

Disinterested witnesses is always a pity, if in the event there are not sufficient drama.

No matter how insignificant any sense, friend refused to look into it, not separated from it higher feelings, because it was important enough and serious; on the contrary, he tried to find the thread binding it is small, inconspicuous, undercurrent the most important, anyway, whether it was about love or passion about the gramophone record. Because life is so precious and so sparingly meted out, not to miss the smallest of its particles.

But he knew she was waiting on the highway to see it from afar. She waited as waiting for women.