Elie Wiesel Loss Of Faith Quotes

Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself ~ Elie Wiesel

Have faith in life, a thousand times faith. By driving out despair, you will move away from death. ~ Elie Wiesel

But you get used to anything. ~ Elie Wiesel

Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

If the Almighty is the Almighty, the last word for each of us belongs to Him. ~ Elie Wiesel

I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. THAT ~ Elie Wiesel

Dead souls have more to say than living ones. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. ~ Elie Wiesel

Had the situation not been so tragic, we might have laughed. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

How much longer would our lives be lived from one "last night" to the next? ~ Elie Wiesel

Humanity would never tolerate it ~ Elie Wiesel

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty. ~ Elie Wiesel

The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. ~ Elie Wiesel

Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky. ~ Elie Wiesel

My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith. ~ Elie Wiesel

In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. ~ Elie Wiesel

My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood. ~ Elie Wiesel

The only wealth I'm interested in is a wealth of words. ~ Elie Wiesel

Whatever you think in life… think higher and feel deeper, be positive. ~ Elie Wiesel

He was a past master of making himself seem insignificant, of seeming invisible. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

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

How was one to rehabilitate and transform words betrayed and perverted by the enemy? ~ Elie Wiesel

It always hurts when you lose a secret. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

Nobody asked anyone for help. One died because one had to. No point in making trouble. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. ~ Elie Wiesel

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it. ~ Elie Wiesel

I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

If I love you more, will you suffer less? ~ Elie Wiesel

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow. ~ Elie Wiesel

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. ~ 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

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You," then that will be enough. ~ Elie Wiesel

After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground. ~ 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

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future. ~ Elie Wiesel

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you. ~ 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

I was the accuser, God the accused. ~ Elie Wiesel

This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. ~ Elie Wiesel

the torturer scores a victory over his victim when the latter, in the grip of doubt, begins to torture himself. ~ Elie Wiesel

I learned to trust the threats of enemies before the promises of friends. ~ Elie Wiesel

True enemies aren't always the ones who hate each other. ~ Elie Wiesel

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most. ~ Elie Wiesel

Suffering confers no privileges; it is what one does with suffering that matters. ~ Elie Wiesel, Night

She is gazing out into the night, and the night has a thousand eyes, which are mine. ~ Elie Wiesel

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. ~ Elie Wiesel

How was it possible that men, women, and children were being burned and that the world kept silent? ~ 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

In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. ~ Elie Wiesel

Look, whatever you do in life, remember, think higher and feel deeper. It cannot be bad if you do that. ~ Elie Wiesel

Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words ~ Elie Wiesel

War is like night, she said. It covers everything. ~ Elie Wiesel

I write to understand as much as to be understood. ~ Elie Wiesel

God is God because he remembers. ~ Elie Wiesel

If God exists, how can we lay claim to freedom, since He is its beginning and its end? ~ Elie Wiesel

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

How can a human being be illegal? ~ Elie Wiesel

The gates of the camp opened. It seemed as though an even darker night was waiting for us on the other side. The ~ 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

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

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

Holy War is a contradiction of terms ... ~ Elie Wiesel

When our center is strong, everything else is secondary. ~ Elie Wiesel

We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything
death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth. ~ Elie Wiesel

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. ~ Elie Wiesel

No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. ~ Elie Wiesel

Faster! Faster! Move, you lazy good-for-nothings! the Hungarian police were screaming.
That was when I began to hate them, and my hatred remains our only link today. They were our first oppressors. They were the first faces of hell and death. ~ Elie Wiesel

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish. ~ Elie Wiesel

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse. ~ Elie Wiesel

One person of integrity can make a difference. ~ Elie Wiesel

Questions outlive the answers. ~ Elie Wiesel

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. ~ Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

God means movement, and not explanation. ~ Elie Wiesel

Only the guilty are guilty. Their children are not. ~ Elie Wiesel

I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth. ~ Elie Wiesel

The philosophers are wrong: it is not words that kill, it is silence. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. ~ Elie Wiesel

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others. ~ Elie Wiesel

Today, as yesterday, a nation is judged by its attitude towards refugees, ~ Elie Wiesel

Jews, listen to me,' she cried. I see a fire! I see flames, huge flames. ~ Elie Wiesel

There is nothing sacred, nothing uplifting, in hatred or in death. In ~ Elie Wiesel

As for me, I had ceased to pray. I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice. Akiba ~ Elie Wiesel

Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human. ~ Elie Wiesel

After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more. ~ Elie Wiesel

To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. ~ Elie Wiesel

I looked up at my father's face, trying to glimpse a smile or something like it on his stricken face. But there was nothing. Not the shadow of an expression. Defeat. ~ Elie Wiesel

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ~ Elie Wiesel

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

So many crazed men, so many cries, so much bestial brutality. ~ Elie Wiesel