--- title: "10 Capable Quotes By Elie Wiesel" description: "10 Capable quotes by Elie Wiesel. Plus more from Elie Wiesel and more Capable sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/elie-wiesel-341_capable_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2269178.png" --- > [No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one-who-has-escaped-the-kingdom/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/elie-wiesel-341_capable_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2269178.png) > [I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of-the-worst-things-possible-2/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/elie-wiesel-341_capable_i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of_1694116.png) > [Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/perhaps-fate-isn-t-blind-after-all-perhaps-it-s-capable-of-fantasy/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a09/elie-wiesel-341_blind_perhaps-fate-isn-t-blind-after-all-perha_1343237.png) > [I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible and they show that there were times, and there probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of-the-worst-things-possible/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4d9/elie-wiesel-341_capable_i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of_1005725.png) > [We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/we-re-alone-but-we-are-capable-of-communicating-to-one-another-both/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ac/elie-wiesel-341_abyss_we-re-alone-but-we-are-capable-of-commun_3161523.jpg) > [Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/man-prefers-to-blame-himself-for-all-possible-sins-and-crimes-rather-2/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/418/elie-wiesel-341_blame_man-prefers-to-blame-himself-for-all-pos_2137921.png) > [This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/this-day-i-ceased-to-plead-i-was-no-longer-capable-of-lamentation-on/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2b4/elie-wiesel-341_accused_this-day-i-ceased-to-plead-i-was-no-long_1271566.png) > [He wants to see whether we are capable of overcoming out base instincts, of killing the Satan within ourselves. We have no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/he-wants-to-see-whether-we-are-capable-of-overcoming-out-base/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/235/elie-wiesel-341_capable_he-wants-to-see-whether-we-are-capable-o_2251214.png) > [No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night. We know that every moment…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one-who-has-emerged-from-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5be/elie-wiesel-341_betray_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2393705.jpg) > [Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/still-i-believe-that-hanna-arendt-she-was-wrong-when-she-tried-to-say/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b0/elie-wiesel-341_accepting_still-i-believe-that-hanna-arendt-she-wa_1177315.jpg) ## Other authors on Capable ## More by Elie Wiesel > [A religious person answers to God, not to the elected or non-elected official.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/a-religious-person-answers-to-god-not-to-the-elected-or-non-elected/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/one-more-stab-to-the-heart-one-more-reason-to-hate-one-less-reason-to/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/what-all-these-victims-need-above-all-is-to-know-that-they-are-not/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-feel-that-books-just-like-people-have-a-destiny-some-invite-sorrow/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [ \[Chinese\] are a huge empire now, you'll soon be - in a few years two billion people in the world. So, you should be… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/chinese-are-a-huge-empire-now-you-ll-soon-be-in-a-few-years-two/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-i-write-it-so-as-not-to-go-mad-or-on-the-contrary-to-go-mad-in/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/take-the-story-of-cain-and-abel-why-were-we-given-that-story/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/mankind-must-remember-that-peace-is-not-god-s-gift-to-his-creatures/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/the-world-the-world-is-not-interested-in-us-today-everything-is/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-question-possessed-a-power-that-was-lost-in-the-answer/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-this-century-more-than-any-other-really-has-seen-the/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/his-cold-eyes-stared-at-me-at-last-he-said-wearily-i-have-more-faith/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/as-you-know-i-describe-shirat-ha-yam-as-part-of-an-epic-story-that/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [Every Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate -healthy virile hate- for what the German personifies and for what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/every-jew-somewhere-in-his-being-should-set-apart-a-zone-of-hate/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) > [“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.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/did-hope-help-us-to-survive-or-not-too-many-families-clung-to-it-all/) [Elie Wiesel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elie-wiesel/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/capable/elie-wiesel/#itemlist", "name": "10 Capable Quotes By Elie Wiesel", "numberOfItems": 10, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elie Wiesel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one-who-has-escaped-the-kingdom/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/elie-wiesel-341_capable_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2269178.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/elie-wiesel-341_capable_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2269178.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dac/elie-wiesel-341_capable_no-one-is-as-capable-of-gratitude-as-one_2269178.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.” — Elie Wiesel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Elie Wiesel" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elie-wiesel/i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of-the-worst-things-possible-2/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/elie-wiesel-341_capable_i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of_1694116.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/elie-wiesel-341_capable_i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of_1694116.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d84/elie-wiesel-341_capable_i-think-that-human-beings-are-capable-of_1694116.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.” — Elie Wiesel", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. 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