28 quotes by Elie Wiesel

“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.” — Elie Wiesel

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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.” — Elie Wiesel

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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.” — Elie Wiesel

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“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.” — Elie Wiesel

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“It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.” — Elie Wiesel

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“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.” — Elie Wiesel

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“No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel

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“After all, God is God because he remembers.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.” — Elie Wiesel

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“In Jewish history there are no coincidences.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Some stories are true that never happened.” — Elie Wiesel

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“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.” — Elie Wiesel

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“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.” — Elie Wiesel

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“Peace is our gift to each other.” — Elie Wiesel

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