Auschwitz Lullaby Quotes

“prefería ver a los nazis como monstruos inhumanos. Cuanto más humanos pudieran ser, más me horrorizaban, ya que eso significaba que todos podíamos convertirnos en seres tan despreciables como ellos. La”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things tht had always been invisible take on their true value.”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna de Auschwitz

“With its voracious appetite, time always devours the memories and faces of those we love. Memory fights to hold on to them through the strength of tears and the painful sigh of love.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Sometimes the things we lack or the obstacles we face become allies that help us endure.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Lo contrario del amor no es el odio, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la belleza no es la fealdad, es la indiferencia. Lo contrario de la fe no es la herejía, es la indiferencia. Y lo contrario de la vida no es la muerte, sino la indiferencia entre la vida y la muerte.”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“Human beings are momentary breaths in the midst of the hurricane of our circumstances,”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Tot timpul era prezenta o condamnare la moarte care avea numele noastre scrise pe ea. Mai devreme sau mai tarziu, toti trebuie sa murim, dar in lagarul de concentrare mi se parea ca nu muream, doar incetam sa existam.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“Cruzimea si raul erau limbile ceasului care faceau Auschwitz-ul sa ticaie.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“Eram o corabie veche in mijlocul furtunii si copiii mei ma ancorau de viata. Trebuia sa continui sa lupt pentru ei, sa ma agat de speranta, sa infrunt fiecare zi si sa ma rog pentru sfarsitul cosmarului.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Existenta noastra se sfarseste atunci cand nu mai e nimeni in lume capabil sa ne iubeasca.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Vera ne-a reamintit ca cea mai buna hrana pentru suflet era speranta.”
― Mario Escobar, Cântec de leagăn de la Auschwitz

“Contrastul dintre copacii plini de viata si strazile noroioase ale lagarului m-a facut sa ma gandesc la conditia umana mizerabila: doar noi eram capabili sa distrugem frumusetea naturala si sa transformam lumea intr-un loc inospitalier.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Cruelty and evil were the clock hands that made Auschwitz tick.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Sometimes we have to lose everything to find what is most important. When life robs us of what we thought we could not live without and leaves us standing naked before reality, the essential things that had always been invisible take on their true value.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Sometimes, when reality scrapes against your heart, it is better to avoid it with daydreams.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Johann had told me once that he had heard Himmler say on the radio that, after the war, all the Gypsies would be relocated to a reservation where they could live according to their ancestral customs without interference. It all sounded like castles in the air, but that day I could at least start dreaming. I had now been given the sacred mission of saving the Gypsy children at Birkenau, which would start by reviving their will to live in the midst of all that death”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Cuando uno llega a cierta edad, la vida no es capaz de sorprenderte o confundirte por completo. Los”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“podemos ser dueños de nuestro destino, aunque el mundo entero se nos oponga. No”
― Mario Escobar, Canción de cuna en Aushwitz

“One of the many things Auschwitz stole from its prisoners was the right to individuality and privacy. We were never alone. We could hardly think or reflect. When hunger was not tormenting you, pain, terror, and humiliation turned your mind into an automaton.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“Over a thousand people would lose their lives at the whim of one doctor. But for him—for all of them—we were nothing more than animals to be sacrificed for a higher ideal.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby

“That is what we were to the Nazis, wild animals, and that is how they treated us.”
― Mario Escobar, Auschwitz Lullaby