I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake. — 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
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else. — 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
The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here? — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love… — 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
[Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world,… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference. Indifference creates evil. Hatred is evil itself. Indifference is what allows evil to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Beggars inspired me with mingled feelings of love and fear. I knew that I ought to be kind to them, for they… — 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
“Watchman, what of the night? So many victims in so many places need help. We need, above all, to be shaken out… — 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
“man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should… — 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
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