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.
ELIE WIESELI 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.
ELIE WIESELWhat is man? Hope turned to dust. No. What is man? Dust turned to hope.
ELIE WIESELIn the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESELFor nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people’s memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.
ELIE WIESELWhoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.
ELIE WIESELTo forget a Holocaust is to kill twice.
ELIE WIESELEvery Jew, somewhere in his being, should set apart a zone of hate – healthy virile hate – for what the German personifies and for what persists in the German.
ELIE WIESELIn the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
ELIE WIESELThink higher, feel deeper.
ELIE WIESELBut where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.
ELIE WIESELAn indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
ELIE WIESELFor the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories
ELIE WIESELHuman 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 WIESELOnce upon a time refugee meant somebody who has a refuge, found a place, a haven where he could find refuge.
ELIE WIESELTo forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
ELIE WIESELEvery moment is a new beginning.
ELIE WIESEL