624 Quotes by Elie Wiesel

I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position.

It was neither German nor Jew who ruled the ghetto – it was illusion.

If your suffering splashes others, those around you, those for whom you represent a reason to live, then you must kill it, choke it.

Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone – and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.

Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don’t know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

The main theme remains constant: man owes it to himself to reject despair; better to rely on miracles than opt for resignation. By changing himself, man can change the world.

I believe in God – in spite of God! I believe in Mankind – in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future – in spite of the Past!

What is abnormal is that I am normal. That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life – that is what is abnormal.