black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.

Elie Wiesel

Emphasis must be put on learning: there is no substitute to education. It can be briefly formulated in a few words: always, whatever you do in life, think higher and feel deeper.
ELIE WIESEL

Education Learning Substitute Word
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

Divorce Faith God Life Myself Question Wound
Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
ELIE WIESEL

Encouragement Silence Torment
I was there when God was put on trial. At the end of the trial, they used the word chayav, rather than ‘guilty’. It means ‘He owes us something’. Then we went to pray.
ELIE WIESEL

Death End God Guilty Himself Prayer Trial
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESEL

Children Family Guilty Kill
To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
ELIE WIESEL

Different Greatness Silence Sin
This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.
ELIE WIESEL

Pain Prayer Role Tears Writing
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
ELIE WIESEL

Hands Life Open
Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
ELIE WIESEL

Himself Story Survive
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor, but the silence of the bystander.
ELIE WIESEL

Cruelty Discrimination Hurt Silence Stand Victim
Mankind must remember that peace is not God’s gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.
ELIE WIESEL

Gift God Kind Man Ourselves Peace Remember
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don’t turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
ELIE WIESEL

Group Person Suffering Yourself
To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESEL

Death Forget Kill
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL

Beautiful Love Myself Question Word
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
ELIE WIESEL

Change Destiny Human Ourselves Power
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I’ve been closer to him for that reason.
ELIE WIESEL

Angry Faith God Lost Moments Myself Reason

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story – and perhaps into a prayer.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Elie Wiesel Quotes