In the Catholic world, one can leave one's home and wander in various fields, but the tents of the Church are large, its compassio...n great, forgiveness easy. The loss of home in Protestant living is more difficult, yet not shattering, for each man is still a part of the entire community who are bound by an impersonal ethic of love. But in Jewish life, each home is an island unto itself, and the severing of the ties of family and tradition causes a tremor which can never be settled. The position of the Jews through the centuries, a stranger in every land, no voice, no ban their own, deepens this traumatic condition. For not only have they no home as their own as a people, but within each alien culture the strange gods tear away the sons and there is no home in the family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Africa I had indeed found a sufficiently frightful kind of loneliness but the isolation of this American ant heap was even more... shattering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
a star called Wormwood rose and flickered, shattering... bent light over the dead boiling up in the ground, the biting yellow their corrupted lives streaming to war, denying all our words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A witty inspiration is a dissolution of spiritual substances which consequently, before the sudden separation, must have been most... intimately intermingled. Imagination must first be filled to the point of saturation with life of every kind before the moment arrives when the friction of free sociability electrifies it to such an extent that the most gentle stimulus of friendly or hostile contact elicits from it lightning sparks, luminous flashes, or shattering blows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the first time in history that a war has involved the whole world, and also it may last many years more; this thought is s...oul-shattering for all of us as human beings. It is horrible to think that the crimes committed by this one man Hitler have these many years been destroying the lives of hundreds of thousands and millions, and one would despair entirely were it not certain that the majority, the innumerable majority which opposes him openly or secretly, will succeed in wiping out once and for all him and his.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »