Elie Wiesel Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

Elie Wiesel quotes and sayings page 3 (96 year old novelist). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 84 we have for him.

“I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.”

“For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.”

“A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent.”

“I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.”

“Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.”

“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.”

“Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.”

“Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.”

“Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.”

“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.”