Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

Music was our way of remembering our inner selves, our values.

Complaining doesn't change people... All that complain, this is terrible... It's not so terrible.

Everything is a present. Everything. This I learned to be thankful for everything.

I felt that this is the only thing which helps me to have hope... a sort of religion, actually. Music is God.

I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.

Life is beautiful. You have to be thankful that we are living. Wherever you look is beauty. I know about the bad things, but I look for the good things.

When you are optimistic, when you are not complaining, when you look at the good side of your life, everybody loves you.

Hatred eats the soul of the hater, not the hated.

Every day in life is beautiful...every day!

I know about the bad, but I look at the good thing.

In any case, life is beautiful, extremely beautiful. And when you are old you appreciate it more. When you are older you think, you remember, you care and you appreciate. You are thankful for everything. For everything.

Music saved my life and music saves me still...

I think I am in my last days, but it doesn't really matter because I have had such a beautiful life. I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times - including my husband, my mother and my beloved son. Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate. Life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

I've always been an optimist and I believe laughter is a wonderful thing

Music was our food... When we can play, it can't be so terrible. The music, the music!

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.

I have lived through many wars and have lost everything many times Yet, life is beautiful, and I have so much to learn and enjoy. I have no space nor time for pessimism and hate.

Only when we are so old, only, are we aware of the beauty of life.

And life is beautiful, love is beautiful, nature and music are beautiful. Everything we experience is a gift, a present we should cherish and pass on to those we love.