624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

Every murder is a suicide.

I didn’t know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.

Once we begin to regard the well-being of others as integral to our own, we overcome the paralysis of competing rights, which rationalizes innocent suffering.

I concurred with Job! I was not denying His existence, but I doubted His absolute justice.

You see, Doctor, what people say is true: man carries his fiercest enemy within himself. Hell isn’t others. It’s ourselves.

And why do you pray, Moishe?” I asked him. “I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

A man who is fighting for the future of mankind is not waiting for torture, he’s waiting for – the Revolution.

But now, I no longer pleaded for anything. I was no longer able to lament. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes had opened and I was alone, terribly alone in a world without God, without man. Without love or mercy. I was nothing but ashes now, but I felt myself to be stronger than this Almighty to whom my life had been bound for so long. In the midst of these men assembled for prayer, I felt like an observer, a stranger.