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
god relationship religion
Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man.
bible created god written
The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories. It begins, 'In the beginning God created Heaven.' If I had written these words, I wouldn't have written anything else; it's just enough.
god lonely loneliness
I think he is condemned by himself to loneliness. God is One: he was, he is, he will be always One. One is so lonely. Maybe that is why he created human beings--to feel less lonely. But as human beings betray his creation, he may become even lonelier.
god talking people
I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.
god remember
After all, God is God because he remembers.
god silence quality
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree.
along anyone anywhere bad build cannot failure fallen fault god good himself less light line resulted springs tried undo whose
In any case, he had bungled his life. Bad husband, bad father, bad lover: failure all along the line . . . All the springs were broken. No more light anywhere . . . Everything he had tried to build had fallen apart. The little good he had done had resulted in fiasco. Whose fault could it be other than his own? . . . And anyone will tell you that if God Himself cannot undo what happened, still less can man.
broken heart hearts means thousand
Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.
politics
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
good moments personal poor religion
Religion is a very personal thing for me. Religion has its good moments and its poor moments.
commentary eternal great happiness love
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness.
constant
If I were immersed in constant melancholy, I would not be who I am.
becomes
When language fails, violence becomes a language; I never had that feeling.
history jewish learning upbringing
Historically, I come from Jewish history. I had the classic upbringing in the Yeshiva, learning, learning, and more learning.