Elie Wiesel quote: "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."

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they...
ELIE WIESEL

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

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.
ELIE WIESEL

Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
ELIE WIESEL

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

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader see...
ELIE WIESEL

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God'...
ELIE WIESEL

It used to be said that when the Baal Shem Tov came into a town, his impact was so strong, he didn&#...
ELIE WIESEL

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.
ELIE WIESEL

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The kill...
ELIE WIESEL

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...
ELIE WIESEL

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

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself...
ELIE WIESEL

Some stories are true that never happened.
ELIE WIESEL

When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- ...
ELIE WIESEL

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

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
ELIE WIESEL

There is divine beauty in learning, just as there is human beauty in tolerance. To learn means to ac...
ELIE WIESEL

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to rememb...
ELIE WIESEL

I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discours...
ELIE WIESEL

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indif...
ELIE WIESEL

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the ...
ELIE WIESEL

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendsh...
ELIE WIESEL

That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that ki...
ELIE WIESEL

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one min...
ELIE WIESEL

Only one enemy is worse than despair: indifference. In every area of human creativity, indifference ...
ELIE WIESEL

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

I believe that all the survivors are mad. One time or another their madness will explode. You cannot...
ELIE WIESEL

Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such...
ELIE WIESEL

I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of N...
ELIE WIESEL

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, exc...
ELIE WIESEL

This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century -- solidarity with the weak,...
ELIE WIESEL

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
ELIE WIESEL

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

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
ELIE WIESEL

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon wh...
ELIE WIESEL

I would like to see real peace and a state of Israel living peacefully alongside a state of Palestin...
ELIE WIESEL

I write to understand as much as to be understood.
ELIE WIESEL

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

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

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

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can ...
ELIE WIESEL

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESEL

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look ...
ELIE WIESEL

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story ...
ELIE WIESEL

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no ...
ELIE WIESEL

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only ...
ELIE WIESEL

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know ...
ELIE WIESEL

I never felt any attraction towards violence. I never tried to express myself through violence. Viol...
ELIE WIESEL

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something...
ELIE WIESEL

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
ELIE WIESEL

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast ...
ELIE WIESEL

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to ...
ELIE WIESEL

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when w...
ELIE WIESEL

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

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

Peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESEL

No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only ...
ELIE WIESEL

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts m...
ELIE WIESEL

I don't like docudramas. Documentaries should not go together with fiction, or half-fiction or q...
ELIE WIESEL

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indi...
ELIE WIESEL

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, e...
ELIE WIESEL

God made man because He loves stories.
ELIE WIESEL

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
ELIE WIESEL

In any society, fanatics who hate don't hate only me - they hate you, too. They hate everybody.
ELIE WIESEL

once a refugee, always a refugee.
ELIE WIESEL

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.
ELIE WIESEL

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?
ELIE WIESEL

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESEL

When my father was born, it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire. When I was born, it was Lithuan...
ELIE WIESEL

If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
ELIE WIESEL

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
ELIE WIESEL

Think higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.
ELIE WIESEL

Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not.
ELIE WIESEL

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.
ELIE WIESEL

There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin...
ELIE WIESEL

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al...
ELIE WIESEL

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
ELIE WIESEL

One person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL

Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...
ELIE WIESEL

His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone el...
ELIE WIESEL

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
ELIE WIESEL

We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with i...
ELIE WIESEL

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is m...
ELIE WIESEL

If I were in the government, I would persuade the prime minister to see the beauty in the fact that ...
ELIE WIESEL

I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, defor...
ELIE WIESEL

Look at these towers, passerby, and try to imagine what they really mean – what they symbolize –...
ELIE WIESEL

The letter was a very special letter, and it touched me, ... I said, 'How can I say no?'
ELIE WIESEL

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him...
ELIE WIESEL

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
ELIE WIESEL

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to h...
ELIE WIESEL

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy,...
ELIE WIESEL

At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
ELIE WIESEL

I am so in favor of being involved in other people's causes, other people's fights. If a people is o...
ELIE WIESEL

I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I pr...
ELIE WIESEL

We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers kno...
ELIE WIESEL

[I would suggest that this focus is not political but a normal part of the grieving journey. William...
ELIE WIESEL

That is my major preoccupation /memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kin...
ELIE WIESEL

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
ELIE WIESEL

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

I have to wonder about people who compare Israelis to Nazis.
ELIE WIESEL

The Time of the Uprooted
ELIE WIESEL

In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line...
ELIE WIESEL

It's not there just to enjoy.
ELIE WIESEL

On a strictly military level, the operation is a success. For that, and for his brave decision to pu...
ELIE WIESEL

It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doe...
ELIE WIESEL

Never have the relations between Jews and Catholics been as good.
ELIE WIESEL

My faceless neighbor spoke up:

“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he wi...
ELIE WIESEL

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in th...
ELIE WIESEL

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that plac...
ELIE WIESEL

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.
ELIE WIESEL

One day when we came to a stop, a worker took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into a wa...
ELIE WIESEL

It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish ...
ELIE WIESEL

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
ELIE WIESEL

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

Night. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
ELIE WIESEL

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me...
ELIE WIESEL

We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn...
ELIE WIESEL

Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Nev...
ELIE WIESEL

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

If there is a crisis in the world, the U.N. should send a task force immediately, within 24 hours,
ELIE WIESEL

Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other...
ELIE WIESEL

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

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

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

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

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

I write to understand as much as to be understood
ELIE WIESEL

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m...
ELIE WIESEL

But you get used to anything.
ELIE WIESEL

After all, God is God because he remembers.
ELIE WIESEL

The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference
ELIE WIESEL

Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need, above all, to be ...
ELIE WIESEL

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people w...
ELIE WIESEL

Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate?
ELIE WIESEL

For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and f...
ELIE WIESEL

For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequen...
ELIE WIESEL

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m...
ELIE WIESEL

Then came the march past the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging o...
ELIE WIESEL

Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write.
ELIE WIESEL

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the torment...
ELIE WIESEL

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
ELIE WIESEL

It's clear to me that one can't be Jewish without Israel. Religious or non-religious, Zionis...
ELIE WIESEL

When did I learn the Bible? When I was four or five years old. It's still the pull of my childho...
ELIE WIESEL

If I had spoken to him out loud, he would have understood the tragic fate of those who came back, le...
ELIE WIESEL

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the...
ELIE WIESEL

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion.
ELIE WIESEL

Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings!" the Hungarian police were screaming.

T...
ELIE WIESEL

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.
ELIE WIESEL

There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gr...
ELIE WIESEL

We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subse...
ELIE WIESEL

It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He...
ELIE WIESEL

From Jeff Greenfield: "I once asked Elie Wiesel "Are you an optimist or a pessimist?" "An optimist,"...
ELIE WIESEL

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
ELIE WIESEL

For me, every hour is grace.
ELIE WIESEL

I never teach the same course twice.
ELIE WIESEL

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
ELIE WIESEL

Language failed me very often, but then, the substitute for me was silence, but not violence.
ELIE WIESEL

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulf...
ELIE WIESEL

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two...
ELIE WIESEL

I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see somethin...
ELIE WIESEL

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heav...
ELIE WIESEL

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.
ELIE WIESEL

For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
ELIE WIESEL

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve ...
ELIE WIESEL

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can al...
ELIE WIESEL

I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I...
ELIE WIESEL

In 1983, I became the Vincent and Brook Astor Professor at The Rockefeller University, where I estab...
TORSTEN WIESEL

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University....
TORSTEN WIESEL

It takes a long time for a country to build a strong base in science, but only a short time to destr...
TORSTEN WIESEL

Innate mechanisms endow the visual system with highly specific connections, but visual experience ea...
TORSTEN WIESEL

Aside from my work, my interests lie in the arts and in world affairs.
TORSTEN WIESEL

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

The opposite of love, I have found, is not hate, but indifference.
ELIE WEISEL

It is, of course, quite natural that a biologist whose attention had been aroused by noticing in his...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

Science, it is said, no doubt has ameliorated the material conditions of human life, but is powerles...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that ...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

My personality resembles my designs to a large extent. I'm in sync with myself and I'm trans...
ELIE SAAB

I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served ...
ELIE DUCOMMUN

The appearance of aged persons is too well known to make detailed description necessary. The skin of...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

There is a resurgence of the nation-state in Europe. These nationalist and protectionist instincts a...
ELIE COHEN

Disease is not the prerogative of man and the domestic animals, so it was quite natural to see if th...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

The old age of lower mammals presents characters similar to those found in man.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

It is often seen that in households where all members are exposed to the same danger, or again in sc...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intell...
ELIE DUCOMMUN

Both have understood what is at stake ... The Nasdaq move has completely changed the landscape in Eu...
ELIE DARWISH

Whatever concerns health is of real public interest.
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

The Greek conception of a life in harmony with nature found its most complete development in the rat...
ELIE METCHNIKOFF

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chanc...
ELIE SAAB

Double Fusion's unique approach will allow Midway to incorporate dynamic advertising into their lead...
ELIE WURTMAN

There is an abundance of creative talent in Jerusalem that has yet to be explored. By focusing on me...
ELIE WURTMAN

I've never had negative feedback.
ELIE WADE

We gave them the information, and they wrote the script. They did everything.
ELIE WADE

We make mortgage loans, so one of the things we put on the message is a list of things you need to b...
ELIE WADE

I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI

I did it because I felt I was doing some good for the patients.
ELIE NAKOUZI

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