Famous Elie Wiesel Quotes

  • I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake. – Elie Wiesel

    I needed to know that there was such a thing as love and that it brought smiles and joy in its wake.– Elie Wiesel

  • War is like night, she said. It covers everything. – Elie Wiesel

    War is like night, she said. It covers everything.– Elie Wiesel

  • Man asks and God replies but we don’t understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die. – Elie Wiesel

    Man asks and God replies but we don’t understand his replies because they dwell in the depths of our souls and remain there until we die.– Elie Wiesel

  • This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. – Elie Wiesel

    This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused.– Elie Wiesel

  • We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. – Elie Wiesel

    We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.– Elie Wiesel

  • We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else. – Elie Wiesel

    We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.– Elie Wiesel

  • Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. – Elie Wiesel

    Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.– Elie Wiesel

  • True enemies aren’t always the ones who hate each other. – Elie Wiesel

    True enemies aren’t always the ones who hate each other.– Elie Wiesel

  • Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil. – Elie Wiesel

    Indifference to me, is the epitome of all evil.– Elie Wiesel

  • The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria… – Elie Wiesel

    The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria…– Elie Wiesel