Download This Image
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  • Etty Hillesum Quote - Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
  1. black
  2. grey
  3. blue
  4. red
  5. brown
  6. white

Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.

Etty Hillesum

More Etty Hillesum Quotes

  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed. Download This Image

    I do believe it is possible to create, even without ever writing a word or painting a picture, by simply molding one’s inner life. And that too is a deed.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise. Download This Image

    I don’t want to be anything special. I only want to try to be true to that in me which seeks to fulfill its promise.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses. Download This Image

    How rash to assert that man shapes his own destiny. All he can do is determine his inner responses.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream…and life continues. Download This Image

    I know and share the many sorrows a human being can experience, but I do not cling to them; they pass through me, like life itself, as a broad eternal stream…and life continues.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else. Download This Image

    Every word born of an inner necessity – writing must never be anything else.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Download This Image

    Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up. Download This Image

    Never give up, never escape, take everything in, and perhaps suffer, that’s not too awful either, but never, never give up.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes. Download This Image

    I don’t think I have nerves of steel, far from it, but I can certainly stand up to things. I am not afraid to look suffering straight in the eyes.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together. Download This Image

    Sometimes my day is crammed full of people and talk and yet I have the feeling of living in utter peace and quiet. And the tree outside my window, in the evenings, is a greater experience than all those people put together.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass. Download This Image

    One must also accept that one has ‘uncreative’ moments. The more honestly one can accept that, the quicker these moments will pass.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day. Download This Image

    Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, when it comes, will only be a small outward confirmation of what has been accomplished within me from day to day.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble. Download This Image

    After each creative act one has to be sustained by one’s strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don’t know what, lest one tumble.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes. Download This Image

    Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment. Download This Image

    Our desire must be like a slow and stately ship, sailing across endless oceans, never in search of safe anchorage. Then suddenly, unexpectedly, it will find mooring for a moment.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task. Download This Image

    To live fully, outwardly and inwardly, not to ignore the external reality for the sake of the inner life, or the reverse, that’s quite a task.

    ETTY HILLESUM
  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Etty Hillesum Quote - There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze. Download This Image

    There are moments when I feel like giving up or giving in, but I soon rally again and do my duty as I see it: to keep the spark of life inside me ablaze.

    ETTY HILLESUM