Elie Wiesel quotes - page 4

You're shaking ... so am I. It's because of Jerusalem, isn't it? One doesn't go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That's one of its mysteries. (Elie Wiesel)
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us. View quote
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I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory. View quote
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Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. View quote
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Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies. View quote
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Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside. View quote
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For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. View quote
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Which is worse? Killing with hate or killing without hate? View quote
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No human being is illegal. View quote
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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes. View quote
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Questions outlive the answers. (Elie Wiesel)
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. View quote
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Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins. View quote
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Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty. View quote
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I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. View quote
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They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v) View quote
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Love makes everything complicated. View quote
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The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become. View quote
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I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past! View quote
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I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction. View quote
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Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky. (Elie Wiesel)
I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions. View quote
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Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words. View quote
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The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other. View quote
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His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. View quote
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