Elie Wiesel Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I will say, with memoir, you must be honest. You must be truthful.”

“I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.”

“I have to be self-conscious of what I'm trying to do with my life.”

“The Bible is not only laws, it's also stories.”

“We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.”

“When I was young I lost everything.”

“I love teaching.”

“Moses was the greatest legislator and the commander in chief of perhaps the first liberation army.”

“In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.”

“There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.”