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Elie Wiesel Quotes

Elie Wiesel quotes

American Novelist, Journalist September 30, 1928

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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse. Elie Wiesel
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time. Elie Wiesel
Some of life's moments mark a break in consciousness; others give rise to streams of scintillating, philosophical ideas or astonishing works of art; still others, to important meeting or profound personal upheavals. Elie Wiesel
I have learned two lessons in my life: first, there are no sufficient literary, psychological, or historical answers to human tragedy, only moral ones. Second, just as despair can come to one another only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings. Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We..."
Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world. Elie Wiesel
I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be. Elie Wiesel
I've been fightingn 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
Elie Wiesel quote: "Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to..."
Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to life as long as God himself Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when..."
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death. Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory,..."
I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance. Elie Wiesel
The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again. Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him."
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him. Elie Wiesel
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 Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to..."
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life. Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel quote: "I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my..."
I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life. Elie Wiesel

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