Elie Wiesel Quotes

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

Hope, Human, Despair

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

Religion, Women, Men

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

Words, Sometimes, Grace

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.
Elie Wiesel

History, Heart, Together

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
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Sometimes, Tragedy, Answer

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

Peace, God, Remember

After all, God is God because he remembers.
Elie Wiesel

God, After, Remembers

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

Life, Give, Meaning

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

Home, Book, Jewish

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.
Elie Wiesel

Human, May, Remember

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

Serious, Tell, Endeavor

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Elie Wiesel

Die, Place, Everyone

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

Memory, Serve, Protect

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.
Elie Wiesel

Book, Two, Between

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

Whatever, Share, Tradition

For me, every hour is grace.
Elie Wiesel

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

I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.
Elie Wiesel

Honest, Truthful, Memoir

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

Life, Memory, Ideal

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
Elie Wiesel

Learned, Wait, Coffee

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.
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History, Future, Car

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Elie Wiesel

Alone, Solitude, Despair

Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.
Elie Wiesel

Greatest, Army, Perhaps

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.
Elie Wiesel

Dreams, May, Speak

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
Elie Wiesel

Experience, Betray, Transmit

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Nationality: American

Born: September 30, 1928

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