Quotes from Elie Wiesel
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
One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious.
- Elie Wiesel
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer.
- Elie Wiesel
I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.
- Elie Wiesel
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You, " then that will be enough.
- Elie Wiesel
He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.
- Elie Wiesel
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
- Elie Wiesel
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
- Elie Wiesel
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
- Elie Wiesel
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
- Elie Wiesel
No human being is illegal.
- Elie Wiesel
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
- Elie Wiesel