“God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, forget not their son who calls upon them now. You well know, You, source of all… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Bible is interpreted by the Talmud. Except, in Rabbinic tradition, a Talmudic law has the weight of the Biblical law. Sometimes… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Why do you pray?" he asked me, after a moment. Why did I pray? A strange question. Why did I live? Why… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Words can be turned into spears. They can be turned into prayers. It's a strange world that you are in. But you… — 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