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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 18

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Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.

Life Is, Contact, Fascinated

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.122, Macmillan

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

Dream, Talking, Literature

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

All those who love thrillers will find in Michael Alexiades's first novel a source of great pleasure and satisfaction. It combines suspense and knowledge, experience and imagination. His grateful readers will now wait for the next.

Grateful, Imagination, Waiting

Knowledge does not corrupt, unless it is arrogant; but then it is not true knowledge.

Doe, Arrogant, True Knowledge

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Thought Provoking, May, Matter

Every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them.

Mean, Offering, Grace

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.172, Schocken

Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .

Discovery, Cities, Paris

Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Testament: A novel”, p.168, Schocken

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

Regret, Sin, I Regret

Acutely aware of the poverty of my means, language became obstacle. At every page I thought, 'That's not it.' So I began again with other verbs and other images. No, that wasn't it either. But what exactly was that it I was searching for? It must have been all that eludes us, hidden behind a veil so as not to be stolen, usurped and trivialized. Words seemed weak and pale.

Writing, Mean, Elude Us

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same?

Thinking, Photographer, Sometimes

If the victims are my problem, the killers are yours.

Thought Provoking, Killers, Problem

There is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.

Indifferent, Grants

Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.

Humanity, Today, Concerned

Elie Wiesel (1982). “Night”, New York, Bantam

If life is not a celebration, why remember it ? If life --- mine or that of my fellow man --- is not an offering to the other, what are we doing on this earth?

Men, Offering, Fellow Man

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Open Heart”, p.75, Schocken

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].

Father, Son, People

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

Believe, Philosophical, Mean

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Drawn to childhood, the old man will seek it in a thousand different ways.

Men, Childhood, Age

Elie Wiesel (1990). “From the kingdom of memory: reminiscences”, Pocket Books

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Self, Solitude, Despair

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

Danger, Liberation, Starving

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.85, Knopf

It is true that not all the victims were Jews, but all the Jews were victims

Holocaust, Victim, Jew

Elie Wiesel (2013). “The Trial of God: (as it was held on February 25, 1649, in Shamgorod)”, p.166, Schocken

I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

My loyalty to my people, to our people, and to Israel comes first and prevents me from saying anything critical of Israel outside Israel… As a Jew I see my role as a melitz yosher, a defender of Israel: I defend even her mistakes… I must identify with whatever Israel does – even with her errors.

Loyalty, Mistake, Errors

I'm a privileged person, I feel privileged because of who I am. I write books, I write novels, I write essays and I teach and I go from university to university. I'm one of the old, but I still go around, but I only see those who are not like that, I don't see the junk youth. I only meet students, and even those who are not formally at the university, if they come to listen to me, they come to read me, it means they are not junk students.

Book, Mean, Writing

Interview with Professor Georg Klein, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2004.

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true.

Holocaust, May, Incidents

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.33, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.

Writing, Opposites, Routine

Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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