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Elie Wiesel Quotes

Total quotes: 30
“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.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity
Tagged: Gratitude, humanity, Heart and Love, Elie Wiesel Quotes
“A man hates his enemy because he hates his own hate.”
— Elie Wiesel, Dawn
Tagged: Hate, humanity, Enemy, Elie Wiesel
“We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children, between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves. Or not.”
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Tagged: Violence, Suffering, Human Being, Hope, Faith, God
“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night(Night)
Tagged: Silence, Speak Up, humanity, Night
“If the only prayer you say throughout your life is 'Thank You,' then that will be enough.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity
Tagged: prayer, God, Relationship, Religion Quotes
“We have the same enemy and it has only one name: Death. Before it we are all equal. In its eyes no life has more weight than another.”
— Elie Wiesel, Day: A Novel
Tagged: Death, Dying
“No human race is superior; no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel quotes on survival, spirituality and humanity
Tagged: human race, Judgement, racist, inferior, Elie Wiesel
“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.”
— Elie Wiesel, ARCHITECTS OF PEACE
Tagged: Silence, Peace, Human Being, Love
“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”
— Elie Wiesel, Day: A Novel
Tagged: Death Quotes, Life Quotes, Life And Death
“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”
— Elie Wiesel, 1986 Nobel Peace Prize Speech
Tagged: World War 2, Holocaust
“Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges: A Novel
Tagged: Indifference, human, humanity
“They called him Moshe the Beadle, as though he had never had a surname in his life.”
— Elie Wiesel,
Tagged: first lines of books
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
— Elie Wiesel, ARCHITECTS OF PEACE
Tagged: Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel, Love And Hate, Love, Hate
“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Hate And Love, Hate, Life, Healing, heart
“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Elie Wiesel Foundation For Humanity
Tagged: Power, human, Faith, Goodness
“When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel - Acceptance Speech
Tagged: humanity, Holocaust, Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel
“Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: help, survive, humanity, Life, Brotherhood
“Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Human Suffering, Peace, Compassion, Suffering, Compromise
“If I survived, it must be for some reason. I must do something with my life. It is too serious to play games with anymore, because in my place, someone else could have been saved. And so I speak for that person. On the other hand, I know I cannot.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel quotes on survival, spirituality and humanity
Tagged: Survival, humanity, Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel
“Books, just like people, a destiny.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Books, Reading, Destiny
“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges
Tagged: Truth, humanity, lying, Lies
“To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Death Quotes, Mourning, dead, Killing
“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Judges: A Novel
Tagged: Meaning Of Life, Life Quotes, Elie Wiesel Quotes
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Tagged: Darkness, Light, Happiness, Friendship, Peace
“There is so much to be done, there is so much that can be done.”
— Elie Wiesel, Elie Wiesel Noble Peace Prize Acceptance Speech
Tagged: Elie Wiesel Quotes, Elie Wiesel, human, humanity
“I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.”
— Elie Wiesel, Open Heart
Tagged: Good and Bad, Evil, Good And Evil, humanity, wounds
“Never again" becomes more than a slogan: It's a prayer, a promise, a vow. There will never again be hatred, people say. Never again jail and torture. Never again the suffering of innocent people, or the shooting of starving, frightened, terrified children. And never again the glorification of base, ugly, dark violence. It's a prayer.”
— Elie Wiesel, Hostage
Tagged: Holocaust, Violence, prayer, Innocence
“And what is a friend? More than a father, more than a brother: a traveling companion, with him, you can conquer the impossible, even if you must lose it later. Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. It is a friend that you communicate the awakening of a desire, the birth of a vision or a terror, the anguish of seeing the sun disappear or of finding that order and justice are no more. That's what you can talk about with a friend. Is the soul immortal, and if so why are we afraid to die? If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? What is death, when you come down to it? The closing of a parenthesis, and nothing more? And what about life? In the mouth of a philosopher, these questions may have a false ring, but asked during adolescence or friendship, they have the power to change being: a look burns and ordinary gestures tend to transcend themselves. What is a friend? Someone who for the first time makes you aware of your loneliness and his, and helps you to escape so you in turn can help him. Thanks to him who you can hold your tongue without shame and talk freely without risk. That's it.”
— Elie Wiesel, The Gates of the Forest: A Novel
Tagged: Friendship, Friends, humanity, forgiveness, Change
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. 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, The Night Trilogy: Night, Dawn, Day
Tagged: Freedom, Peace, humanity, Religion Quotes, Victim
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive.”
— Elie Wiesel, Night (Night)
Tagged: Suffering, Courage, Despair, Foregiveness, survive, Faith, God, Trust, Good
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