“The night lifted, leaving behind it a grayish light the color of stagnant water. Soon there was only a tattered fragment of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everything is in it: the promise and the hope and the fear and the challenge and the defiance. The test is a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The deeper the nostalgia and the more complete the fear, the purer, the richer the word and the secret. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
How can one explain the attraction terror holds for some minds — and why for intellectuals? . . .In a totalitarian 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
Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we… — 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