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Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 6

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I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but

I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They even have a word for it: The refugees. It's a new word, a 20th Century word, but refugee is actually a misnomer.

Thinking, Numbers, People

Source: www.savetibet.org

The most important question a human being has to face... What is it? The question, Why are we here?

Important, Faces, Humans

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Wall, Suffering, Cry

Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait.

Brother, Hate, Waiting

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.75, Macmillan

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

Memories, People, Holocaust

Some stories are true that never happened.

Love, Dream, Writing

John XXI was a very great pope and he's the one who actually corrected the liturgy. He did so because of his friend Jules Isaac, a French Jewish historian who was a friend of John Paul, of John 23rd, and he convinced him and he changed the liturgy, no more Jew, the perfidious Jew and so forth and now, and don't speak any more of the Jews killing Christ. Things have changed.

Speak, Christ, Killing

Source: www.nobelprize.org

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

Hope, Mean, Imagination

But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.

Country, Home, Mind

Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.

Men, Sacred, Sparks

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.8, Macmillan

There is no word in Hebrew for religion, by the way.

Way, Hebrew

Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

All those - or most of those - who went through the experience during the Second World War - they want to remember more - more and more. It's never enough because we feel that we have to tell the story. And no one can tell the story fully.

War, Stories, World

Source: www.npr.org

I was there when God was put on trial....At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than 'guilty'. It means 'He owes us something'. Then we went to pray.

Mean, Holocaust, Trials

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.

Inspirational, Life, Truth

Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

Dream, Night, Holocaust

Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

Life Is, Wounded

Source: www.nobelprize.org

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

Inspirational, Positive, Encouraging

Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

Philosophy, Logic, Process

Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

Friendship, True Friend, Funny Friend

Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.57, Schocken

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

"Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.

Death, Attitude, Indifference

US News & World Report, October 27, 1986.

I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

Memories, Book, Taken

Source: www.savetibet.org

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

Memories, Real, Imagination

Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

Past, My Past, Impossibility

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.

Education, Mean, Divine Beauty

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