Quotes About Survival

I could spend hours telling you about the suffering the war has brought, but I'd only make myself more miserable.

No one is spared. The sick, the elderly, children, babies, and pregnant women - all marched to their death.

Be brave! Let's remember our duty and perform it without complaint. There will be a way out. God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger. The weak shall fall and the strong shall survive and not be defeated!

I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven't yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for … everything

I'm afraid my common sense, which was in short supply to begin with, wil be used up too quickly and I won't have any left by the time the war is over.

Extraordinary things can happen to people who go into hiding. Just imagine, as there is no bath, we use a washtub and because

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I'm terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we'll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.

Now that the war has long been over, I know why my fear vanished beneath that spacious sky. You see, once I was alone with nature I realized, without actually being aware of it, that fear doesn't help, that it doesn't get you anywhere. Anyone who's as frightened as I was should look to nature and realize that God is much closer than most people think. From that moment on, though countless bombs fell close by, I was never truly afraid again.

I've asked myself again and again whether it wouldn't have been better if we hadn't gone into hiding, if we were dead now and didn't have to go through this misery, especially so that the others could be spared the burden. But we all shrink from this thought. We still love life, we haven't yet forgotten the voice of nature, and we keep hoping, hoping for... everything.

Femeile sunt niÈ™te soldaÈ›i care lupt? È™i sufer? pentru supravieÈ›uirea omenirii, mult mai viteji, mult mai curajoÈ™i decât numeroÈ™ii eroi ai libert??ii cu gura lor mare.

The real names of the other people hiding in the Secret Annexe are: THE VAN PELS FAMILY (from Osnabrück, Germany): Auguste van Pels (born 9 September 1900) Hermann van Pels (born 31 March 1898) Peter van Pels (born 8 November 1926) Called

Everyone here is dreading the great terror known as winter.

Nos veo a los ocho y a la Casa de atrás, como si fuéramos un trozo de cielo azul, rodeado de nubes de lluvia negras, muy negras. La isla redonda en la que nos encontramos aún es segura, pero las nubes se van acercando, y el anillo que nos separa del peligro inminente se cierra cada vez más. Ya estamos tan rodeados de peligros y de oscuridad, que la desesperación por buscar una escapatoria nos hace tropezar unos con otros. Miramos

Nosotros cuatro todavía estamos bien, y así hemos llegado al día de hoy, 20 de junio de 1942, fecha en que estreno mi diario con toda solemnidad.

beauty remains, even in misfortune.

Además, nos quedan tres peroles para hacer conservas y una pileta para usar como depósito de agua. —También tenemos unas diez arrobas de patatas de invierno en el cuarto de las especias. Estos son los comentarios que oigo todos los días, que si habrá invasión, que si no habrá invasión. Discusiones sobre pasar hambre, morir, bombas, mangueras de incendio, sacos de dormir, carnets de judíos, gases tóxicos, etcétera

Seriously, though, ten years after the war people would find it very amusing to read how we lived, what we ate and what we talked about as Jews in hiding. Although I tell you a great deal about our lives, you still know very little about us. How frightened the women are during air raids; last Sunday, for instance, when 350 British planes dropped 550 tons of bombs on IJmuiden, so that the houses trembled like blades of grass in the wind. Or how many epidemics are raging here.

They were pale, and didn't say a word when Cady entered the room. Had they been sitting like this every night for months? Seeing all those pale and frightened faces was awful. With each bang of an outside door, a shock went through everyone in the room, as if the door to life itself were symbolically being slammed shut.

You couldn't do this and you couldn't do that, but life went on.

Y estoy convencida de que la naturaleza es capaz de paliar muchas cosas terribles, pese a todo el horror.

Dearest Kitty, So there we were, Father, Mother and I, walking in the pouring rain, each of us with a schoolbag and a shopping bag filled to the brim with the most varied assortment of items. The people on their way to work at that early hour gave us sympathetic looks; you could tell by their faces that they were sorry they couldn't offer us some kind of transportation; the conspicuous yellow star spoke for itself. Only

not, they proceed to the next house.

Es que la gente corriente no sabe lo que significa un libro para un escondido.

The Knock at the Door by Ina Boudier-Bakker.