Elie Wiesel: Trending quotes (page 5)

“Questions outlive the answers.”

“Our lives no longer belong to us alone; they belong to all those who need us desperately.”

“Even in darkness it is possible to create light and encourage compassion. That it is possible to feel free inside a prison. That even in exile, friendship exists and can become an anchor. That one instant before dying, man is still immortal.”

“To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.”

“We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)”

“The more you ask certain questions, the more dangerous they become.”

“The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.”

“The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life… He played that which he would never play again.”

“I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.”

“When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.”

“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”

“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”

“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.”

“Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.”

“Humanity? Humanity is not concerned with us. Today anything is allowed. Anything is possible.”

“Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside.”

“To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice”

“Terrorism must be outlawed by all civilized nations — not explained or rationalized, but fought and eradicated. Nothing can, nothing will justify the murder of innocent people and helpless children.”

“For God's sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where hanging here from this gallows…”