Quotes from Elie Wiesel
I have a tremendous respect for Professor [Frank Moore] Cross.
- Elie Wiesel
The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.
- Elie Wiesel
The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.
- Elie Wiesel
What is Scripture? The Hebrew word is torah. Torah means teaching, learning.
- 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
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
- Elie Wiesel
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.
- Elie Wiesel
There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps.
- Elie Wiesel
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
- Elie Wiesel
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
- Elie Wiesel
A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.
- Elie Wiesel