Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 11

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• That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Beautiful, Girl, Writing

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November, 2000.

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

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Night, Said

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

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Life Is, Contact, Fascinated

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

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• I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Betrayal, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.

  Elie Wiesel

  Encouragement, Two, Historical

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• The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Sea, Sky, Needs

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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• The Jewish tradition of learning-is learning. Adam chose knowledge instead of immortality.

  Elie Wiesel

  Learning, Jewish Tradition, Immortality

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.31, Schocken

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Serious, Endeavor

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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

  Philosophy, Knowledge, Mean

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

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• His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.104, Macmillan

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• If enough people are sensitive to the tragedy of Tibet, I think it will produce a change politically as well. But furthermore, it's important for the people in Tibet. Now communication is such [that] people know what is happening. Even Tibetan people would know that the Interfaith or the international group of religious people - that everybody who is religious is taking up their cause. It would help them a lot if we give them courage, and that in itself is enough.

  Elie Wiesel

  Religious, Communication, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.

  Elie Wiesel

  Daughter, Sorry, Son

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Self, Trying, Self Conscious

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• I am not so naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the conscience of the world. Books no longer have the power they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Book, Yesterday

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.11, Macmillan

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• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

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• If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Writing, Hatred

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

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• Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words

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  Music, Giving, Doe

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• The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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• We still are looking for someone who knows the secret of immortality. Only God is immortal; we are not.

  Elie Wiesel

  Secret, Immortality, Stills

  "Heart to Heart with Elie Wiesel". Interview with Nadine Epstein, www.momentmag.com. June 20, 2013.

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• I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

  Elie Wiesel

  God, Talking, People

  "Messenger to Mankind". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I want to go back to the child I used to be, and to read with the same naiveté [the Pentateuch]. I want to leave science aside and go back to the pure perception offered to me in the text that is waiting there for me year after year.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Years, Waiting

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Goal, Humanity

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.166, Schocken

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• I don't believe in collective guilt. The children of killers are not killers, but children.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Believe, Guilt

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. November 2000.

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• Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Character, Writing

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• I make a difference between genocide and Holocaust. Holocaust was mainly Jewish, that was the only people, to the last Jew, sentenced to die for one reason, for being Jewish, that's all. Genocide is something else. Genocide has been actually codified by the United Nations. It's the intent of killing, the intent of killing people, a community in this culture so forth, but no other people has been really interested.

  Elie Wiesel

  Differences, People, Holocaust

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

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