Selected quotes · 16
№ 01
“No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.”
Elie WieselLeadership
№ 02
“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
Elie WieselCreativity
№ 03
“Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.”
Elie WieselFaith
№ 04
“Peace is our gift to each other.”
Elie WieselWisdom
№ 05
“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”
Elie WieselHappiness
№ 06
“Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.”
Elie WieselFriendship
№ 07
“Once you bring life into the world, you must protect it. We must protect it by changing the world.”
Elie WieselLife
№ 08
“I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.”
Elie WieselWisdom
№ 09
“Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.”
Elie WieselFaith
№ 10
“Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.”
Elie WieselFriendship
№ 11
“I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.”
Elie WieselFaith
№ 12
“What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.”
Elie WieselPhilosophy
№ 13
“When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude.”
Elie WieselMindset
№ 14
“I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.”
Elie WieselFaith
№ 15
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.”
Elie WieselLife
№ 16
“Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.”
Elie WieselFaith