624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

You would be amazed at the number of doors a Nobel Prize opens.

I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .

Bite your lips, little brother...Don't cry. Keep your anger, your hate, for another day, for later. The day will come but not now...Wait. Clench your teeth and wait...

I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I promised, so here I am.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.

They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)

I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it.