I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book, I published it in 1955, it was in Yiddish and it was called And The World Was Silent. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It was like a page torn from a history book, from some historical novel about the captivity of babylon or Spanish Inquisition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have an open mind - - I read, I study, I study your work and the work of other people with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One day - I remember it was a Sabbath afternoon - I came to the synagogue with a book in my hand.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
[Chinese] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but I'm not… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
“Did hope help us to survive, or not? Too many families clung to it all through the war, thus falling into the enemy's trap.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
![“I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/133/elie-wiesel-341_anger_i-developed-an-anger-at-moses-mendelssoh_640846.jpg)
![“We know, for instance, of "The Book of the Wars of the Lord." It is mentioned in the text [Numbers 21:14]. There was a book: Where is it? One day you will dig and you will maybe find it. [Laughter]” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/87d/elie-wiesel-341_book_we-know-for-instance-of-the-book-of-the_2514575.png)
![“Josiah has a tremendous reputation in the text. He rediscovered the Book of the Law; you remember how Hilkiah the High Priest somehow found it [2 Kings 22:8].” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d5d/elie-wiesel-341_book_josiah-has-a-tremendous-reputation-in-th_2081503.png)
![“[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1d4/elie-wiesel-341_book_the-book-of-the-law-was-lost-for-so-many_1777453.png)
![“I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b2/elie-wiesel-341_alive_i-believe-in-books-and-when-our-people-c_2150158.png)
![“[My approach to the Bible, history does really matter.] Everything matters. But I have priorities. For instance, for me to know whether there were two Isaiahs or one is less important than the text itself. Of course I read the arguments for and against. But it's not my task in life to say there…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2f0/elie-wiesel-341_approach_my-approach-to-the-bible-history-does-re_2368125.png)
