Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel

"After all, God is God because he remembers."
72 Quotes
"After all, God is God because he remembers."
Elie Wiesel
"I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it."
Elie Wiesel
"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
"Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems."
Elie Wiesel
"Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other."
Elie Wiesel
"When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity."
Elie Wiesel
"In Jewish history there are no coincidences."
Elie Wiesel
"Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history."
Elie Wiesel
"It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed."
Elie Wiesel
"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."
Elie Wiesel
"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."
Elie Wiesel
"Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments."
Elie Wiesel
"Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man."
Elie Wiesel
"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."
Elie Wiesel
"Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning."
Elie Wiesel
"I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again."
Elie Wiesel
"Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies."
Elie Wiesel
"Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair."
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"I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it."
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"No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions."
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