Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My interpretation is different. God asks Cain, "Where is your brother Abel?" [Genesis 4:9] And Cain answers "Lo yadati, "I don't know"… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
In the word question, there is a beautiful word - quest. I love that word. We are all partners in a quest.… — 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 may well be that our means are fairly limited and our possibilities restricted when it comes to applying pressure on our… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“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 Image
I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image