Elie Wiesel Quotes

» Some stories are true that never happened.

» Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

» Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

» I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

» In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

» We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

» I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

» Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.

» 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.

» Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

» A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

» Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

» Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

» I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

» There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

» There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.

» The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

» Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

» I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

» There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

» Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.

» I write to understand as much as to be understood.

» Peace is our gift to each other.

» Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

» Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.

» Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

» Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

» No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.

» Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.

» That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

» What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

» I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

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