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Life Quotes by Elie Wiesel

57 Life quotes by Elie Wiesel

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I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words, and the denigration of language hurts deeply. Learning is described as a divine beauty that shows life began long before our birth. Remembering a night in a camp is called a long night that never fades, shaping purpose.

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Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.

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The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.

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Whatever you think in life... think higher and feel deeper.

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I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

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Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

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My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

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“Whatever you think in life… think higher and feel deeper, be positive.”

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“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.”

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Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with…

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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we…

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I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's…

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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and…

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Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach…

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My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing…

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Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

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I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is…

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“In retrospect I must confess that I do not know, or no longer know, what I wanted to achieve with my words.…

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“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others…

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“Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of…

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Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that…

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The darkest days in my life after the war, after the war, was when I discovered that the ... most of the…

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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times…

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I have no doubt that faith is only pure when it does not negate the faith of another. I have no doubt…

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The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others.…

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There is much to be done, there is much that can be done... one person of integrity can make a difference, a…

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“It was a destructive novel of acquired ideas. To finally wake up in a state of creative anguish, to lose oneself in…

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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come…

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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.…

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“He was playing his life. His whole being was gliding over the strings. His unfulfilled hopes. His charred past, his extinguished future.…

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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was…

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For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference…

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“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the…

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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

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I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

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Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself

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“I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.”

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For me democracy is the only way of life. The opposite is dictatorship or anarchy.

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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

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did everything I could in my life to be immune to hatred, because hatred is a cancer.

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