Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Some events do take place but are not true; others are, although they never occurred. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Write only if you cannot live without writing. Write only what you alone can write. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment -… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“But where shall I start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I know best, my own. But… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children — 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
