List of Vasily Grossman Quotes

There Is A Deep And Undeniable Sadness In All This: Whenever We See The Dawn Of An Eternal Good That Will Never Be Overcome By Evil – An Evil That Is Itself Eternal But Will Never Succeed In Overcoming Good – Whenever We See This Dawn, The Blood Of Old People And Children Is Always Shed.

He Was Endowed With The Extraordinary Powers Of Endurance Characteristic Of Madmen And Simpletons.

Humanity Will Live As Long As There Are Humans.

Why Do People Have Memories? It Would Be Easier To Die - Anything To Stop Remembering.

At War A Russian Man Puts On A White Shirt. He May Live In Sin, But He Dies Like A Saint.

The Sea Was Not Freedom; It Was A Likeness Of Freedom, A Symbol Of Freedom...how Splendid Freedom Must Be If A Mere Likeness Of It, A Mere Reminder Of It, Is Enough To Fill A Man With Happiness.

Thousands Of People Are Being Buried And No One Attends The Funerals,' Said One Of The Soldiers. 'in Peacetime It's The Other Way Round: One Coffin And A Hundred People Carrying Flowers.

There's Nothing More Difficult Than Saying Goodbye To A House Where You've Suffered.

I Have Written Only What I Have Thought Through, Felt Through And Suffered Through.

Ivan Tells Anna: "i Used To Imagine That Being Embraced By A Woman . . . As Something So Wonderful That It Would Make Me Forget Everthing . . . [but] Happiness, It Turns Out, Will Be To Share With You The Burden I Can't Share With Anyone Else.

I Don't Believe In Your "good". I Believe In Human Kindness.

The Divine Impeccability Of The Immortal [soviet] State Turned Out Not Only To Have Suppressed Individual Human Beings But Also To Have Defended Them, To Have Comforted Them In Their Weakness, To Have Justified Their Insignificance. The State Had Taken On Its Own Shoulders The Entire Weight Of Responsibility; It Had Liberated People From The Chimera Of Conscience.