Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past. Elie Wiesel More Quotes by Elie Wiesel More Quotes From Elie Wiesel This is the role of writers: to turn their tears into a story - and perhaps into a prayer. Elie Wiesel roles tears prayer Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth. Elie Wiesel logic process philosophy Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel relationship friendship life Every moment contains a spark of eternity. Elie Wiesel sparks moments eternity How can a human being be illegal? Elie Wiesel illegal human-beings humans The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude. Elie Wiesel gratitude brain men Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain Elie Wiesel sculpture writing order Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories. Elie Wiesel truth inspirational life In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. Elie Wiesel illusion vain dangerous Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. Elie Wiesel deeds-and-words silence grace Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. Elie Wiesel sickness indifference soul Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. Elie Wiesel power evil life That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. Elie Wiesel girl writing beautiful We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses. Elie Wiesel break-through loneliness bridges Which is better, truth that is a lie or the lie that is truth? Elie Wiesel lying Love makes everything complicated. Elie Wiesel complicated You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind. Elie Wiesel reading mind heart Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel bystanders holocaust remembrance Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. Elie Wiesel betray betrayal betrayed Always remember, my good friends, that there is one sin we must never commit and it is to humiliate another person or to allow another person to be humiliated in our presence without us screaming and shouting and protesting. Elie Wiesel good-friend sin remember
