Quotes from Alice Herz-Sommer

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

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

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

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.

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

I am Jewish, but Beethoven is my religion.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.