Tibet's a tragedy. It's an insult to human decency. 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 rolestearsprayer 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 logicprocessphilosophy Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing. Elie Wiesel relationshipfriendshiplife Every moment contains a spark of eternity. Elie Wiesel sparksmomentseternity How can a human being be illegal? Elie Wiesel illegalhuman-beingshumans 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 gratitudebrainmen 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 sculpturewritingorder 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 truthinspirationallife In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is dangerous. Elie Wiesel illusionvaindangerous Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds. Elie Wiesel deeds-and-wordssilencegrace Indifference is the sign of sickness, a sickness of the soul more contagious than any other. Elie Wiesel sicknessindifferencesoul Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil. Elie Wiesel powerevillife 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 girlwritingbeautiful 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-throughlonelinessbridges 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 readingmindheart Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Elie Wiesel bystandersholocaustremembrance Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. Elie Wiesel betraybetrayalbetrayed 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-friendsinremember
