Quote

I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.

Elie Wiesel

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Elie Wiesel
Age: 87 †
Born: 1928
Born: September 30
Died: 2016
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
Humanist
Journalist
Judaic Scholar
Novelist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Professor
Translator
University Teacher
Writer
Sighetu Marmaţiei
Eliezer Wiesel
A-7713
Élie Wiesel
War
Crisis
Religious

More quotes by Elie Wiesel

Image
The story of Abraham and the sacrifice of Isaac are nowhere in any other tradition.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Every moment contains a spark of eternity.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Paris: city of encounters, of furtive and painful discoveries. All isms converge there, including the anti-isms, all the revolutionaries too, including the counterrevolutionaries .
Elie Wiesel
Image
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
Elie Wiesel
Image
I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.
Elie Wiesel
Image
My anger rises up within faith and not outside it.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I've been fighting my entire adult life for men and women everywhere to be equal and to be different. But there is one right I would not grant anyone. And that is the right to be indifferent.
Elie Wiesel
Image
A word is worth a thousand pictures.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I have one request: may I never use my reason against truth.
Elie Wiesel
Image
The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Young people want to learn, they are thirsty for knowledge, they want to understand and remember. The main thing is to teach them where not to go. Oppression, not to go dictatorship, not to go racism and prejudice, absolutely not to go. This is a moral plan [for society].
Elie Wiesel
Image
My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.
Elie Wiesel
Image
[Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.
Elie Wiesel