624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

Each man was his own executioner and his own victim.

I imagine, like all his predecessors, Barak Obama would like to achieve greatness in bringing peace in the Middle East. I hope it will not be at the expense of Israel.

I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.

When has religion ever been unifying? Religion has introduced many wars in this world, enough bloodshed and violence.

One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. 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.

Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.

To forget a Holocaust is to kill twice