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
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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.
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You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.
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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)
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Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.
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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.
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An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman
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In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.
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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.
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We are here to let the Jewish state and its brave, beleaguered citizens and its valiant soldiers know that they are not alone.
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The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish.
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I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.
morning writing up-early
Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.