Quotes from Elie Wiesel
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
- Elie Wiesel
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
- 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.
- Elie Wiesel
I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.
- Elie Wiesel
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
God made (human beings) because he loves stories.
- Elie Wiesel
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
- Elie Wiesel
For in my tradition, as a Jew, I believe that whatever we receive we must share.
- Elie Wiesel
Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.
- Elie Wiesel
Whether every story that's there [in the Bible] is a historic truth ... Again, I'm not concerned.
- Elie Wiesel
We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.
- Elie Wiesel
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed.
- Elie Wiesel