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
pain loneliness suffering
If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.
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Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.
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A man can laugh while he suffers.
suffering mountain may
You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
brother fate suffering
We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)
men suffering concern
Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
suffering conclusion consent
I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.
suffering indifference humans
An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
compassion suffering faces
In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
suffering care groups
you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.
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.
fights israel
At this moment, Israel fights for her existence,
continue learn matter people shall
We are still here. And no matter what, we shall continue to be here to tell people so they can learn from our history.
corpse depths eyes left
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.