624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

It's not hatred that kills people, it's indifference

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love.

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

A man can laugh while he suffers.

There is Israel, for us at least. What no other generation had, we have. We have Israel in spite of all the dangers, the threats and the wars, we have Israel. We can go to Jerusalem. Generations and generations could not and we can.

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn't,

I remember those faces of people who were good I saw that. I saw a father who gave his bread to his son and his son gave back the bread to his father. That, to me, was such a defeat of the enemies, will of the enemies, theories of the enemies, aspirations, here [in Auschwitz].