Elie Wiesel: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…”

“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”

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

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

“No human being is illegal.”

“Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?”

“Love makes everything complicated.”

“In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous.”

“Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.”

“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.”

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”

“I write to understand as much as to be understood.”

“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”

“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.”

“[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer….
And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.”

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

“Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.”

“I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.”