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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 14

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One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

Hate, Heart, Reason

You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

Suffering, Mountain, May

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.155, Knopf

Worse still is that mankind - the non-Jewish world - learned nothing from the Holocaust: The event which had no precedent in history, which should be equal to the Revelation at Sinai in significance.

Holocaust, Events, World

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night.

Gratitude, Night, Thankfulness

"Am I my brother's keeper?" There you have the whole Biblical understanding that you are your brother's keeper. You also have a whole other understanding in which you are not your brother's keeper. And I've heard some extremely bright people take this position.

Brother, Biblical, People

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

For the purpose of my life, I don't ask the question. First of all, I believe. I think the Five Books of Moses are inspired. Call it divine. I don't know. But I would certainly call it inspired.

Believe, Book, Thinking

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, The hater has power. All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

Hands, Accomplices, Can Do

You cross a border and the policeman or the frontier policeman look at you, What are you doing here? Why are you coming? How long will you stay? Well, if I had nearly enough years, I would write a novel about being a refugee.

Writing, Years, Long

Source: www.savetibet.org

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

Greatness, Israel, Middle East

Source: www.algemeiner.com

Nevertheless, we are led to believe that true words can communicate more than truth, they communicate what life is all about, that it's threatened, when it's threatened, when it's in danger, then it becomes a curse or a blessing.

Believe, Blessing, Life Is

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Man prefers to blame himself for all possible sins and crimes rather than come to the conclusion that God is capable of the most flagrant injustice. I still blush every time I think of the way God makes fun of human beings, his favorite toys.

Fun, Thinking, Men

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.34, Macmillan

The night was gone. The morning star was shining in the sky. I too had become a completely different person. The student of the Talmud, the child that I was, had been consumed in the flames. There remained only a shape that looked like me. A dark flame had entered into my soul and devoured it.

Morning, Stars, Children

Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.

War, Years, Parent

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.

Believe, Serious, Endeavor

Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

Dream, Night, Thinking

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word.

Shoes, Holocaust, Entering

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.53, Univ. Press of Mississippi

I remember, May 1944: I was 15-and-a-half, and I was thrown into a haunted universe where the story of the human adventure seemed to swing irrevocably between horror and malediction.

Adventure, Swings, Stories

God made (human beings) because he loves stories.

Thought Provoking, Stories, Love Story

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.

Strong, Accused, Contrary

Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

In my little town, Sighet, which is in Romania, Hungary-Romania, but a real shtetl, a little [Jewish] village - and we began with the Chumash [Pentateuch], probably at age four.

Real, Age, Four

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

Past, Curiosity, Criminals

[The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.

Kings, Book, Mean

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

The Holocaust is not a cheap soap opera. The Holocaust is not a romantic novel. It is something else.

Holocaust, Opera, Soap

Source: www.npr.org

I'm not a political person. I usually beware of political persons. I know many, but I'm not one of them. I have no political ambitions.

Ambition, Political, Persons

Source: dailynorthwestern.com

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.

Night, Body, Soup

Elie Wiesel (2000). “Night: with related readings”

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