Quotes by Elie Wiesel

About Elie Wiesel:

Eliezer is a Romanian-born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, and Nobel Laureate. He is the author of 57 books, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald concentration camps. Wiesel is also the Advisory Board chairman of the newspaper Algemeiner Journal.
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More water will flow before we join StarClan. This is not an end. This is a beginning. You will need the courage of a lion to face this journey.

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I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.

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A mn ages hs enemy because he hates his own hate. He says to himself: I hate him not because he's my enemy, not because he hates me, but because he arouses me to hate.

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I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water from a hole in a frozen stream. The rest of the time I wandered around, obsessed over my life dramas, stared into space, rea...

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Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking, loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning.

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War is like night, she said. It covers everything.

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There are moments when I think it will never end, that it will last indefinitely. It's like the rain. Here the rain, like everything else, suggests permanence and eternity. I say to myself: it's raining today and it's going to rain tomorrow and the n...

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When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.

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Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.

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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.

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I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

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True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other.

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For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous bu...

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My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold ey...

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The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

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In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.

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Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed. Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke unde...

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There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all els...

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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. (pg. 39)

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

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Author Bio

  • NameElie Wiesel
  • Descriptionwriter, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
  • AliasesEliezer Wiesel
  • BornSeptember 30, 1928
  • CountryRomania; United States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Political Activist; Judaic Scholar; Novelist; Autobiographer
  • AwardsNobel Peace Prize; Knight Commander Of The Order Of The British Empire; Norman Mailer Prize; Presidential Medal Of Freedom; National Humanities Medal; Four Freedoms Award - Freedom Of Worship; Freedom Award; Light Of Truth Award