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
denigrate easy hurts life teacher word
I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.
beneath blue bodies faces forget life night saw shall silent smoke turned whose
Never shall I forget that first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, ... Never shall I forget that smoke. Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of faith is not heresy but indifference
life-is contact fascinated
Life is really fascinated only by death. It vibrates only when it comes in contact with death.
men meaning-of-life life-is
Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.
life helping-others stories
The only way for us to help ourselves is to help others and to listen to each other's stories.
life friendship relationship
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
life power evil
Indifference, to me, is the epitome of evil.
opposites i-hate-my-life apathy
The opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
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.
inspirational life success
There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
life-is wounded
My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.
divorce arguing life-is
My faith is a wounded faith, but my life is not without faith. I didn't divorce God, but I'm quarrelling and arguing and questioning, it's a wounded faith.
giving literature meaning-of-life
Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.