Elie Wiesel Quotes - Page 5

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• When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Grateful, Missing

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

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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

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

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• You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.

  Elie Wiesel

  Destiny, Strange, Grows

  "Fresh Air Remembers Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor And Nobel Peace Laureate". "Fresh Air" With David Bianculli, www.npr.org. July 8, 2016.

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• My good friends, we are all waiting. We are waiting, if not for the Messiah, as such, we are waiting for the messianic moment. And the messianic moment is what each and every one of us tries to build, meaning a certain area of humanity that links us to all those who are human and, therefore, desperately trying to fight despair as humanly as possible and - I hope - with some measure of success.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspirational, Graduation, Fighting

  "Learning and Respect". Elie Wiesel's commencement speech at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, June 15, 1997.

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• We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.

  Elie Wiesel

  Secret, Triumph, Treasure

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• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Gratitude is a word that I cherish. Gratitude is what defines the happiness and humanity of the human being.

  Elie Wiesel

  Gratitude, Humanity, Cherish

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• Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.

  Elie Wiesel

  Soul, Sickness, Indifference

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.89, Schocken

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• None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

  Elie Wiesel

  War, Victim, Obligation

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.182, Schocken

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• What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

  Elie Wiesel

  Voice, Quality, Needs

  Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1986.

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• You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its mysteries.

  Elie Wiesel

  Jerusalem, Return, Mystery

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• Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Helping Others, Survival, Helping

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

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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 refugee is actually a misnomer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Numbers, People

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Important, Faces, Humans

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Suffering, Cry

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

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• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Hate, Waiting

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

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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

  Memories, People, Holocaust

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Country, Home, Mind

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

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Sacred, Sparks

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

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Speak, Christ, Killing

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Way, Hebrew

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hope, Mean, Imagination

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• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Holocaust, Trials

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

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Holocaust

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

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