Book Quote by Elie Wiesel Download Open image “I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.” — Elie Wiesel ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Destiny Feels Joy People Sorrow
I think of books as like a life raft. They save us from mundanity, they draw us to a poetic, multi-faceted world. We all… — Andi Oliver Copy Share Image
People who know and love the same books as you, have the road map to your soul. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Books are only but a mirror of what knowledge we desire, in our minds and in our hearts. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
Books are our umbilical cord to life. They connect us deeply, and with more meaning, to the world. They aren't about escaping from ourselves… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them. I firmly believe… — Emma Thompson Copy Share Image
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life. — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve. — Scott Cunningham Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
. . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of someone we love more than ourselves, that make us feel as though we were on the verge of suicide, or lost in a forest remote from all human habitation-a book should serve as an axe… — Franz Kafka Copy Share
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. — Madeleine L'Engle 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 voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs. This is what I say to the young Jewish boy wondering what I… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
[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
As you know, I describe Shirat ha-Yam as part of an epic story that has qualities of history and which also has qualities of the mythological, of an epic. — Elie Wiesel Copy Share
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't mean you know anything about marketing. Or layout. Or editing. Or publicity. Or selling your books for foreign markets.Everyone can point to a few examples of people that have done very well for themselves self-publishing. But… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image