624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

After trampling over many bodies and corpses, we succeeded in getting inside. We let ourselves fall to the ground.

The destiny of people cannot be reduced to a sociological or scientific formula; it contains mysterious, if not mystical factors.

I did not deny God’s existence, but I doubted his absolute justice.

All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.

We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.

I looked up at my father’s face, trying to glimpse a smile or something like it on his stricken face. But there was nothing. Not the shadow of an expression. Defeat.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

How do I find God?′ you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages, which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred pages are there. Only you don’t see them.