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You're shaking ... so am I. It's because of Jerusalem, isn't it? One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries.
— Elie Wiesel
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.
— Elie Wiesel
No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel
— John Ortberg
Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that.
— Elie Wiesel
I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals.
— Elie Saab
Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses.
— Elie Wiesel
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
— Elie Wiesel
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
— Elie Wiesel
A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it.
— Elie Wiesel
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
— Elie Wiesel
We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
— Elie Wiesel
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.
— Elie Wiesel
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
— Elie Wiesel
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.
— Elie Wiesel
You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you.
— Elie Wiesel
No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
— Elie Wiesel
I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means.
— Elie Wiesel
It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.
— Elie Wiesel
That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
— Elie Wiesel
There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!
— Elie Wiesel
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
— Elie Wiesel
God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
— Elie Wiesel
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
— Elie Wiesel
No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do.
— Elie Abel
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
— Elie Wiesel
As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered.
— Elie Wiesel
The danger lies in forgetting.
— Elie Wiesel
My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud.
— Elie Wiesel
Ou do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
— Elie Wiesel
For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream.
— Elie Wiesel
Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know.
— Elie Wiesel
Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence.
— Elie Saab
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
— Elie Wiesel
I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract.
— Elie Wiesel
The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.
— Elie Wiesel
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
— Elie Wiesel
Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival.
— Elie Tahari
If you like something, go for it.
— Elie Tahari
Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb.
— Elie Wiesel
Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions.
— Elie Tahari
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
In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone.
— Elie Wiesel
If I love you more, will you suffer less?
— Elie Wiesel
Every moment is a new beginning.
— Elie Wiesel
I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen.
— Elie Wiesel
Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.
— Elie Wiesel
You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves.
— Elie Wiesel
Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?
— Elie Wiesel
We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.
— Elie Wiesel
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
— Elie Wiesel
I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
— Elie Wiesel
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ...
— Elie Wiesel
In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem.
— Elie Metchnikoff
No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them
— Elie Wiesel
The Red Army is advancing with giant strides ... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to ...
— Elie Wiesel
There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid.
— Elie Wiesel
When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.
— Elie Wiesel
When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.
— Elie Wiesel
You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside.
— Elie Tahari
Peace is our gift to each other.
— Elie Wiesel
Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America?
— Elie Wiesel
It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference
— Elie Wiesel
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
— Elie Wiesel