624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

Love is this and love is that; man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love.

I don’t know whether or not we’ll meet again, Gregor. I could, with an effort, look into the future, but the time’s too short. I’d like you to know only this: separation contains as much of a mystery as meeting. In both cases a door opens: in meeting it opens on the future, in separation on the past. It’s the same door.

Humanity would never tolerate it.

Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents.

Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from? Heavy snow continued to fall over the corpses.

Do you know what that means? ‘Man of God.’ An odd name, isn’t it? It teaches us that what we call angels are only men. There are no real angels. And men? Oh, there are men, all right, unfortunately for the angels and for ourselves. And what is worse is that they are real.

If the only prayer you say throughout your life is “Thank You,” then that will be enough.

I was twelve. I believed profoundly. During the day I studied the Talmud, and at night I ran to the synagogue to weep over the destruction of the Temple.