624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.

Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.

I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.

Simply because, one hand, there are the haters, ... The hater has power. ... All we can do is oppose it, or one becomes an accomplice.

Some stories are true that never happened.

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.