Elie Wiesel

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. ”

I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table. ”

Religion is not man's relationship to God, it is man's relationship to man. ”

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. ”

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

My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience, became messengers. We have given the message, and nothing changed. ”

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. ”

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal. ”

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. ”

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