Elie Wiesel Quotes And Sayings

My Greatest Disappointment Is That I Believe That Those Of Us Who Went Through The War And Tried To Write About It, About Their Experience, Became Messengers. We Have Given The Message, And Nothing Changed.

I Believe In Superstitions. You Don't Talk About A Child Who Hasn't Been Born.

I Have Not Lost Faith In God. I Have Moments Of Anger And Protest. Sometimes I've Been Closer To Him For That Reason.

Peace Is Our Gift To Each Other.

After All, God Is God Because He Remembers.

Moses Was The Greatest Legislator And The Commander In Chief Of Perhaps The First Liberation Army.

I Decided To Devote My Life To Telling The Story Because I Felt That Having Survived I Owe Something To The Dead. And Anyone Who Does Not Remember Betrays Them Again.

It All Happened So Fast. The Ghetto. The Deportation. The Sealed Cattle Car. The Fiery Altar Upon Which The History Of Our People And The Future Of Mankind Were Meant To Be Sacrificed.

When Did I Learn The Bible? When I Was Four Or Five Years Old. It's Still The Pull Of My Childhood, A Fascination With The Vanished World, And I Can Find Everything Except That World.

When Language Fails, Violence Becomes A Language; I Never Had That Feeling.

I Never Felt Any Attraction Towards Violence. I Never Tried To Express Myself Through Violence. Violence Is A Language.

One Always Goes Back To One's Childhood In The Beginning, And I Come From A Very Religious Family And Surrounding. Very Religious.

I Do Not Belong To This World. I Continue To Write Everything In Longhand. If I Have To See Something On The Internet, I Ask My Secretary Or Students. I Am Lucky, Because I Have People Who Do It For Me.

Religion Is A Very Personal Thing For Me. Religion Has Its Good Moments And Its Poor Moments.

There Is A Difference Between A Book Of Two Hundred Pages From The Very Beginning, And A Book Of Two Hundred Pages Which Is The Result Of An Original Eight Hundred Pages. The Six Hundred Are There. Only You Don't See Them.

I Marvel At The Resilience Of The Jewish People. Their Best Characteristic Is Their Desire To Remember. No Other People Has Such An Obsession With Memory.

The Bible Is Not Only Laws, It's Also Stories.

Man, As Long As He Lives, Is Immortal. One Minute Before His Death He Shall Be Immortal. But One Minute Later, God Wins.

For In My Tradition, As A Jew, I Believe That Whatever We Receive We Must Share.

Historically, I Come From Jewish History. I Had The Classic Upbringing In The Yeshiva, Learning, Learning, And More Learning.

Religion Is Not Man's Relationship To God, It Is Man's Relationship To Man.

It Used To Be Said That When The Baal Shem Tov Came Into A Town, His Impact Was So Strong, He Didn't Have To Speak. His Disciples Had To Dance Or To Sing Or To Preach To Have The Same Effect. I Think A Real Messenger, Myself Or Anyone, By The Very Fact That He Is There As A Person, As A Symbol, Could Have The Same Impact.

It's Clear To Me That One Can't Be Jewish Without Israel. Religious Or Non-religious, Zionist Or Non-zionist, Ashkenazi Or Sephardic - All These Will Not Exist Without Israel.

I Do Not Recall A Jewish Home Without A Book On The Table.

In Jewish History There Are No Coincidences.

No One May Speak For The Dead, No One May Interpret Their Mutilated Dreams And Visions.

I Don't Know Much About Politics, And I Don't Want To Know. That's Why I Rarely Involve Myself In Politics.

Mankind Must Remember That Peace Is Not God's Gift To His Creatures; Peace Is Our Gift To Each Other.

I Love Teaching.

If I Were Immersed In Constant Melancholy, I Would Not Be Who I Am.

If I Were In The Government, I Would Persuade The Prime Minister To See The Beauty In The Fact That People See Israel As A Haven - From Their Sadness To Their Hope.

Hope Is Like Peace. It Is Not A Gift From God. It Is A Gift Only We Can Give One Another.

I Never Teach The Same Course Twice.

I Don't Like Docudramas. Documentaries Should Not Go Together With Fiction, Or Half-fiction Or Quarter-fiction. The Two Should Not Go Together. They Cannot Mix.