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Warmed-over loves and soups are generally not recommended. — Elie Wiesel

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

What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory? — Elie Wiesel

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. — Elie Wiesel

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto - it was illusion. — Elie Wiesel

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. — Elie Wiesel

To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. — Elie Wiesel

How much longer would our lives be lived from one "last night" to the next? — Elie Wiesel

For us it meant true equality: nakedness. We trembled in the cold. A — Elie Wiesel

I don't walk around feeling like I'm successful. I feel like I did well. — Elie Tahari

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. — Elie Wiesel

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim. — Elie Wiesel

No heart is as whole as a broken heart, and no faith is as solid as a wounded faith. Elie Wiesel — John Ortberg

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that. — Elie Wiesel

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. — Elie Wiesel

I traced the path I walk today and my goals are many. I think that I'm achieving my goals. — Elie Saab

Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses. — Elie Wiesel

Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future. — Elie Wiesel

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most. — Elie Wiesel

Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny. — Elie Wiesel

A holy war is a contradiction in terms. War dehumanizes, war diminishes, war debases all those who wage it. — Elie Wiesel

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. — Elie Wiesel

Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. — Elie Wiesel

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

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. — Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. — Elie Wiesel

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

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. — Elie Wiesel

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more. — Elie Wiesel

No one is as capable of gratitude as one who has escaped the kingdom of night. — Elie Wiesel

What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory. — Elie Wiesel

What is man? Ally of God or simply his toy? His triumph or his fall? — Elie Wiesel

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

You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. — Elie Wiesel

I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me. — Elie Wiesel

Whatever energy you put out there, that's the energy you're going to get back. — Elie Tahari

You shouldn't act as a spokesperson for someone who's trying to impose his will on you. — Elie Wiesel

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. — Elie Wiesel

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

I never compared Nazis into communism, but communism was the same thing, the end justifies the means. Whatever the means. — Elie Wiesel

It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town. — Elie Wiesel

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it. — Elie Wiesel

There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny! — Elie Wiesel

I write to understand as much as to be understood. — Elie Wiesel

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. — Elie Wiesel

God made (human beings) because he loves stories. — Elie Wiesel

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness. — Elie Wiesel

No blare of trumpets announces a modern crisis. In these matter-of-fact times, a telephone call will do. — Elie Abel

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself. — Elie Wiesel

As a child I was afraid of death. I was not afraid to die, but every time I thought of death I shuddered. — Elie Wiesel

The danger lies in forgetting. — Elie Wiesel

Propaganda against war is itself a form of war propaganda. — Elie Halevy

My ambition really was, even as a child, to be a writer, a commentator, and a teacher, but a teacher of Talmud. — Elie Wiesel

Ou do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. — Elie Wiesel

And yet, this tale about despair becomes a story against despair. — Elie Wiesel

For us it's not easy to be conformist, I cannot stand to be conformist, I don't accept what it is, I like to say no. If I see an injustice I scream. — Elie Wiesel

I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel

Those who know don't talk and those who talk don't know. — Elie Wiesel

His last word had been my name. A summons. And I had not responded. — Elie Wiesel

I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from? — Elie Wiesel

Elegance is a statement, an attitude. Elegant women are women of character with confidence. — Elie Saab

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. — Elie Wiesel

I tried to put on a smile but, being too cold, I could only manage a grin. That's one reason why I don't like winter: smiles become abstract. — Elie Wiesel

The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects. — Elie Wiesel

Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics — Elie Saab

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed. — Elie Wiesel

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. — Elie Wiesel

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens. — Elie Wiesel

Creativity to me is the life force that is in us. It's an animalistic instinct for survival. — Elie Tahari

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. — Elie Wiesel

If you like something, go for it. — Elie Tahari

Then the train resumed its journey, leaving in its wake, in a snowy field in Poland, hundreds of naked orphans without a tomb. — Elie Wiesel

Don't bring me problems. Bring me solutions. — Elie Tahari

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. — Elie Wiesel

In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. — Elie Wiesel

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. — Elie Wiesel

If I love you more, will you suffer less? — Elie Wiesel

Every moment is a new beginning. — Elie Wiesel

When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling. — Elie Wiesel

I knew that I was no longer arguing with him but with Death itself, with Death that he had already chosen. — Elie Wiesel

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim. — Elie Wiesel

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves. — Elie Wiesel

I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. — Elie Wiesel

Sometimes I think I prefer the storyteller in [Roman Vishniac] to the photographer. But aren't they one and the same? — Elie Wiesel

We know that every moment is a moment of grace, every hour an offering; not to share them would mean to betray them. — Elie Wiesel

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer. — Elie Wiesel

I have tried to keep memory alive ... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices. — Elie Wiesel

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it ... — Elie Wiesel

In the ancient world and, above all, among the Greeks, human nature was held in high esteem. — Elie Metchnikoff

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

The Red Army is advancing with giant strides ... Hitler will not be able to harm us, even if he wants to ... — Elie Wiesel

There is not anti-semitism as an ideology. The civilized world must think that anti-semitism is stupid. — Elie Wiesel

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies. — Elie Wiesel

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence. — Elie Wiesel

You can only be connected to others if you are connected to yourself and the truth inside. — Elie Tahari

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible. — Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel

Will you join me in hearing the case for keeping weapons from those who preach death to Israel and America? — Elie Wiesel

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference — Elie Wiesel

An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman — Elie Wiesel