“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Whatever you think in life… think higher and feel deeper, be positive.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“In retrospect I must confess that I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words.… — 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
It is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only… — 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 much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer. — 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