Elie Wiesel: Trending quotes (page 4)

“Peace is our gift to each other.”

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”

“Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.”

“I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!”

“Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.”

“Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”

“Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself”

“The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.”

“Some stories are true that never happened.”

“Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.”

“The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…”

“Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.”

“Not all games are innocent. Some come dangerously close to cruelty.”

“And action is the only remedy to indifference, the most insidious danger of all.”

“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…”

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

“every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer…”

“Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth?”

“What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.”