Harry Mulisch Quotes

All cows were like other cows, all tigers like all other tigers - What on earth happened to human beings?

Harry Mulisch

In a world full of war, famine, oppression, deceit, monotony, what—apart from the eternal innocence of animals—offers an image of hope? A mother with a newborn child in her arms? The child may end up as a murderer or a murder victim, so that the hopeful image is a prefiguration of a pietà: a mother with her newly dead child on her lap.

Harry Mulisch