Alice Herz-Sommer Quotes

“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.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

Every day is a miracle. No matter how bad my
circumstances, I have the freedom to choose my
attitude to life, even to find joy. Evil is not new.
It is up to us how we deal with both good and bad.
No one can take this power away from us.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“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.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“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.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“Music saved my life and Music saves me still.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“It depends on me whether life is good or not. Not on life, on me.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

“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.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer

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

— Alice Herz-Sommer