I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is… — 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 is up to us to determine whether the years ahead will be for humankind a curse or a blessing. We always… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the… — 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