Quote

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

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
Dream
Dreaming
Human
Except
Humans
Certainly
Like
Beginning
Walking
Probably
Literature
Talmudic
Talking
Serpent

More quotes by 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
I do not believe in collective guilt.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
Elie Wiesel
Image
Life is not a fist. Life is an open hand waiting for some other hand to enter it.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I have absolutely no problem with the young Germans. I even feel sorry for the young Germans because to be maybe sons or daughters of killers is different than them to be sons and daughters of the victims. And I felt sorry for them. I still do.
Elie Wiesel
Image
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
Elie Wiesel
Image
In the beginning there was faith - which is childish trust - which is vain and illusion - which is dangerous.
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
I am looking for the word which is there and shouldn't be there. I wonder, why is it there? Or I look for problems: the Akedah [the Binding of Isaac - Genesis 22]. It still baffles me. Each time I read it - and I read it at least twice a year - each time I discover new layers in it. Always. So this is of more concern to me than the minimalists.
Elie Wiesel
Image
It's not only America. Terrorism now is a threat to the whole world.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I don't think [governments] use [religious repression ] as a weapon, they use it as a as a means of - of oppression. To stifle opposition. To mute resistance.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
Elie Wiesel
Image
For the good of all, I say: Be careful, the brutality of the world must not be more powerful or attractive than love and friendship.
Elie Wiesel
Image
It is by his freedom that a man knows himself, by his sovereignty over his own life that a man measures himself.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Perhaps fate isn't blind after all. Perhaps it's capable of fantasy, even compassion.
Elie Wiesel
Image
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself
Elie Wiesel
Image
Even if people tell me they have historical proof [that it is not historical], that doesn't really bother me.
Elie Wiesel
Image
..you do not leave a library if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you.
Elie Wiesel
Image
I developed an anger at [Moses] Mendelssohn. Later, I read the book. I realized there was nothing subversive in it.
Elie Wiesel