624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

It's not perfect. Nothing is perfect. Sometimes it takes time for the words to become more than words.

No commandment surpasses the one concerning the liberation of hostages, for they are among the starving, the thirsting, the stripped, always in danger of death.

People become the stories they hear and the stories they tell.

The sky is so close to the sea that it is difficult to tell which is reflected in the other, which one needs the other, which one is dominating the other.

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.

It's something that happens once in a lifetime, ... It would be silly on anyone's part to say it doesn't mean anything. It means something. It meant a lot of things. It was an important moment in my life.

I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference