black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Elie Wiesel

In the beginning there was faith – which is childish; trust – which is vain; and illusion – which is dangerous.
ELIE WIESEL

Beginning Children Dangerous Faith Illusion Trust
When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.
ELIE WIESEL

Gratitude Herself Humanity Missing Person
We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.
ELIE WIESEL

Adult Choice Deserve Hope Ourselves Suffering Ugly Violence
Only the guilty are guilty: the children of killers are not killers, but children.
ELIE WIESEL

Children Family Guilty Kill
In the word question, there is a beautiful word – quest. I love that word.
ELIE WIESEL

Beautiful Love Myself Question 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
There is much to be done, there is much that can be done… one person of integrity can make a difference.
ELIE WIESEL

Difference Integrity Myself Person
We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.
ELIE WIESEL

Betrayal Experience Person Teacher
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
ELIE WIESEL

Ash Dreams Forget God Moments Murder
Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
ELIE WIESEL

Better Break Decision Heart Broken Oneself Time
Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
ELIE WIESEL

Build Cry Human Separate Suffering Wall
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
ELIE WIESEL

Change Life Protection World
We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.
ELIE WIESEL

Different Measurement Person Philosophy Source Success Universe
The most important question a human being has to face. What is it? The question, Why are we here?
ELIE WIESEL

Face Human Important Philosophy Question
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
Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
ELIE WIESEL

Despair Myself Rejection Remember Responsibility

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Elie Wiesel Quotes