Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Aharon Appelfeld

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld.
Last updated on December 6, 2024.
Aharon Appelfeld

Aharon Appelfeld was an Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor.

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
People who lose their parents when young are permanently in love with them.
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. — © Aharon Appelfeld
The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.
I had a feeling that my generation-and me, also-we were naked. We did not belong to anything.
Can art be completely invented? It's a matter of shaping reality with the help of imagination.
I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
My nights are a nightmare, quite often, but the nightmares are rich. I nourish myself by those nights.
A person has to be by himself a little bit. We weren’t born in a flock. Togetherness drives me out of my mind.
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