Quotes by : Vasily Grossman

Before the war Sofya Levinton had once said to Yevgenia Nikolaevna Shaposhnikova, 'If one man is fated....

There is a deep and undeniable sadness in all this: whenever we see the dawn of an eternal good that....

There are people whose souls have just withered, people who are willing to go along with anything evil....

There are one or two people - I’m not talking about family, about Zhenya or your mother - whom a pariah....

The most fundamental change in people at this time was a weakening of their sense of individual identity....

Why had he committed this terrible sin? Everything in the world was insignificant compared to what he....

Good is to be found neither in the sermons of religious teachers and prophets, nor in the teachings of....

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

Bach felt the beauty and sadness of the moment. These men who defied the power of the Russian heavy artillery,....

Man’s innate yearning for freedom can be suppressed but never destroyed. Totalitarianism cannot renounce....