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Elie Wiesel Quotes

Total quotes: 31
“Why do I write. Perhaps in order not to go mad. Or, on the contrary, to touch the bottom of madness.”
— Elie Wiesel, Why I Write: Making No Become Yes
Tagged: motivation, Elie Wiesel
“Time does not heal all wounds; there are those that remain painfully open.”
— Elie Wiesel, A Jew Today
Tagged: Time, Healing, Wound, Pain, Suffering, Sad
“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.”
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Tagged: Violence, Suffering, Human Being, Hope, Faith, God
“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night(Night)
Tagged: Silence, Speak Up, humanity, Night
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is 'Thank You,' then that will be enough.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity
Tagged: prayer, God, Relationship, Religion Quotes
“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hope, Despair and Memory
Tagged: Power, Injustice, protest
“The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.”
— Elie Wiesel, Day
Tagged: Sky, Reflection, Sea
“I don’t think I should accept other people’s suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don’t want others to suffer.”
— Elie Wiesel, Ennglish Holocaust Paper
Tagged: Sufferings, Pain of other people, Comfort Someone
“Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hope, Despair and Memory
Tagged: Death, Life, alive, Despair, Search for Meaning
“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hope, Despair and Memory
Tagged: Dreams, Hope, Past, Future, Life
“You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hostage
Tagged: Suffering, enduring, Survival
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges: A Novel
Tagged: Indifference, human, humanity
“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”
— Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Tagged: World War 2, Holocaust
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
— Elie Wiesel, ARCHITECTS OF PEACE
Tagged: Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel, Love And Hate, Love, Hate
“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Hate And Love, Hate, Life, Healing, heart
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity
Tagged: Power, human, Faith, Goodness
“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech
Tagged: humanity, Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel
“They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.”
— Elie Wiesel,
Tagged: first lines of books
“If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hope, Despair and Memory
Tagged: Memory, humanity, Saving Humanity
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges
Tagged: Truth, humanity, lying, Lies
“Books, just like people, a destiny.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Books, Reading, Destiny
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, dead, Killing
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges: A Novel
Tagged: Meaning Of Life, Life Quotes, Elie Wiesel Quotes
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Tagged: Darkness, Light, Happiness, Friendship, Peace
“There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel Noble Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Tagged: Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel, human, humanity
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night
Tagged: haunting, Memories, Past, Holocaust
“But the forces of evil have not abdicated. The malevolent ghosts of hatred are resurgent with a fury and a boldness that are as astounding as they are nauseating: ethnic conflicts, religious riots, anti-Semitic incidents here, there, and everywhere. What is wrong with these morally degenerate people that they abuse their freedom, so recently won?”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges
Tagged: Freedom, Abuse, Evil, Hate
“Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.”
— Elie Wiesel, Dawn
Tagged: Night, Dreams, Dreaming, Words, Meaning
“Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence. It's a prayer.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hostage
Tagged: Holocaust, Violence, prayer, Innocence
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
Tagged: Freedom, Peace, humanity, Religion Quotes, Victim
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Despair, Foregiveness, survive, Faith, God, Trust, Good
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