Elie Wiesel Quotes (80 Quotes)

Peace is our gift to each other.

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

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens You become part of t.

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is oppressed, we must help those people free themselves.

I write to understand as much as to be understood.

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

Some stories are true that never happened.

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

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.

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

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.

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

Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.

On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pursue peace even at present political cost, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon deserves praise. But starting now, Israelis and Palestinians must face the question What next

Only one enemy is worse than despair indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference is the enemy indifference of evil is worse than evil, because it is also sterile.

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

It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than words.

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

We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

Terrorism knows no borders. Therefore, opposition to terrorism must know no borders.

I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William Shakespeare, a bereaved father, said, Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o'er fraught heart, and bids it break. ... Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.