The story [of the Sacrifice of Isaac ] is much more a part of theology than of history. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. — 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
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you make a determination that [story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac] is not historical, do you throw it away?… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What of the Exodus? That too, is a wonderful story, but from the viewpoint of an historian, it is - to use… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Take the story of Cain and Abel. Why were we given that story? Scientifically, you may have an explanation for it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — 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
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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![“I may be a descendant of Seth. I say to myself, What does [the story of Cain and Abel] teach me? So I go back to all the interpretations in the Talmud, which to me are a source of pleasure and joy. Then I say, maybe this story is not for then; maybe it's for now! It's possible for brothers to kill…” quote by Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6f8/elie-wiesel-341_abel_i-may-be-a-descendant-of-seth-i-say-to-m_1573158.jpg)
