Elie Wiesel quotes

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. (Elie Wiesel)
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
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There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
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Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.
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Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
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In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
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Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
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I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
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Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
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Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. (Elie Wiesel)
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
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Peace is our gift to each other.
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For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.
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Some stories are true that never happened.
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The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.
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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.
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No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.
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Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must at that moment become the center of the universe.
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No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has emerged from the kingdom of night.
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What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. (Elie Wiesel)
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...
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I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
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I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
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Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
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