Night Quotations Pages 85-115

Quote 1 “Moving fast made us a little warmer. The blood flowed more readily in our veins. We had the feeling of being alive…” (85)

Quote 2 “We were masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth” (87).

Quote 3 “Death, which was settling in all around me, silently, gently. It would seize upon a sleeping person, steal into him and devour him bit by bit” (89).

Quote 4 “He [Rabbi Eliahu’s son] had felt his father growing weaker and, believing that the end was near, had thought by his separation to free himself of a burden that could diminish his own chance for survival” (91).

Quote 5 “Our minds numb with indifference, Here or elsewhere, what did it matter? Die today or tomorrow, or later? The night was growing longer, never-ending” (98).

Quote 6 “A shadow had lain down beside him. And this shadow threw itself over him…Meir, my little Meir! Don’t you recognize me…You’re killing your father…I have bread…for you too…for you too…” (101)

Quote 7 “…at the same time a thought crept into my mind: If only I didn’t find him! If only I were relieved of this responsibility, I could use all my strength to fight for my own survival, to take care only of myself…Instantly, I felt ashamed, ashamed of myself forever” (106).

Quote 8 “Listen to me, kid…In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone” (110).

Quote 9 “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me” (115).