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

One always goes back to one's childhood in the beginning, and I come from a very religious family and surrounding. Very religious. — Elie Wiesel

The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories. — 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

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

If you ask me what I want to achieve, it's to create an awareness, which is already the beginning of teaching. — 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

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

What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke. — Elie Wiesel

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

Are you forgetting that losing a game is an error or a lesson, but losing one's time is a sin? — Elie Wiesel

Oh, no, I was afraid of that! I'd better go and hide. — Torsten 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

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

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

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 came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

It's easier to be conformist naturally; it's easier except for those who don't like conformism. — Elie Wiesel

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

I did not deny God's existence, but I doubted his absolute justice. — Elie Wiesel

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

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he's waiting for
the Revolution. — Elie Wiesel

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

The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal ... (Poor Father! Of what then did you die?) — Elie Wiesel

Man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn't others. It's ourselves. Hell is the burning fever that makes you feel cold. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

Today's wealthy are poor though they don't know it. They can't bring their possessions to where we're all going. — Elie Wiesel

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit. — Elie Wiesel

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

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics. — 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

[Adolf] Hitler needed, he didn't want to kill Jews, he wanted to expel German Jews, and therefore it's not entirely corroborating your theory. — Elie Wiesel

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger. — Elie Wiesel

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

I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer. — Elie Wiesel

Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion. — Elie Wiesel

Only fanatics - in religion as well as in politics - can find a meaning in someone else's death. — Elie Wiesel

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

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future. — Elie Wiesel

The Holocaust is a sacred subject. One should take off one's shoes when entering its domain, one should tremble each time one pronounces the word. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

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

Peace is our gift to each other. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more. — 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've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. — Elie Wiesel

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

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

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