When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The Pope going to Jerusalem, the Pope recognising the State of Islam, the Pope going to the wall organising a concert for… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you read Exodus 15 carefully, it describes a storm at sea. This is the old Yahwistic source. In the retelling of… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe… — 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