Elie Wiesel Quotes — Page 24

Writer, Holocaust Survivor

Spiritual

“I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.”

God Quality Silence

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Elie Wiesel

Writer, Holocaust Survivor

Inspired

“There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.”

Heart Today Islam

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Angry

“I am much more afraid of my good deeds that please me than of my bad deeds that repel me.”

Deeds Please Me

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Hopeful

“In those dark times, one rose to the very heights of humanity by simply remaining human.”

Dark Humanity

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Philosophical

“Whenever an angel says "Be not afraid!" you'd better start worrying. A big assignment is on the way.”

Way Worry Angel

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Philosophical

“But where was I to start? The world is so vast, I shall start with the country I knew best, my own. But my country is so very large. I had better start with my town. But my town, too, is large. I had best start with my street. No, my home. No, my family. Never mind, I shall start with myself.”

Country Mind Home

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Philosophical

“Eternity is the place where questions and answers become one.”

Answers Eternity

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Spiritual

“My God was never happiness, but to understand and be understood.”

Understood

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Nostalgic

“For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.”

People Years Memories

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Lonely

“Listen to me, kid. Don't forget that you are in a concentration camp. In this place, it is every many for himself, and you cannot think of others. Not even you father. In this place, there is no such thing as father, brother, friend. Each of us lives and dies alone. Let me give you good advice: stop giving your ration of bread and soup to your old father. You cannot help him anymore. And you are hurting yourself. In fact, you should be getting his rations.”

Father Hurt Brother

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Compassionate

“What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedome depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.”

Needs Voice Quality

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Spiritual

“Often I say to myself "Really, what are we doing on this planet?" We are passing the message as well as we can, communicating our fears, our hopes ... Day in day out, week after week and year after year, people kill each other.”

People Years Messages

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