Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
thinking higher deeper
Think higher, feel deeper.
lonely loneliness our-generation
This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.
beautiful girl writing
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.
father touch-me
After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more.
religious praying quarrels
I come from a very religious background.And actually I remained in it. All my anger I describe in my quarrels with God in Auschwitz, but you know I used to pray every day.
inspirational positive encouraging
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
witness
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness.
love dream writing
Some stories are true that never happened.
destiny turns humans
Human beings all change. Not what they are but who they are. We have the power to change what we do with our life and turn it into our destiny.
religious war crisis
I had my religious crisis after the war, not during the war.
inspirational life truth
Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.
book writing eight
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 are there. Only you don't see them.
believe people humanity
I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it . . .
philosophical believe mean
Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.