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Wladyslaw Szpilman Quotes

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

Humanity seems doomed to do more evil than good. The greatest ideal on earth is human love.

Wladyslaw Szpilman
Evil, Holocaust, Humanity
Wladyslaw Szpilman (2000). “The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945”, p.177, Picador

And now I was lonelier, I supposed, than anyone else in the world. Even Defoe's creation, Robinson Crusoe, the prototype of the ideal solitary, could hope to meet another human being. Crusoe cheered himself by thinking that such a thing could happen any day, and it kept him going. But if any of the people now around me came near I would need to run for it and hide in mortal terror. I had to be alone, entirely alone, if I wanted to live.

Wladyslaw Szpilman
Running, Thinking, People
Wladyslaw Szpilman (2011). “The Pianist”, p.145, Hachette UK

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