624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

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.

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.

Mankind needs peace more than ever, for our entire planet, threatened by nuclear war, is in danger of total destruction. A destruction only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

You know how many reasons we have to be desperate and despairing, the world is not learning anything. We have seen that.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Peace is our gift to each other.

Writers write because they cannot allow the characters that inhabit them to suffocate them. These characters want to get out, to breathe fresh air and partake of the wine of friendship; were they to remain locked in, they would forcibly break down the walls. It is they who force the writer to tell their stories.

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.

I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.