Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was an American writer.

He had written 57 books, including novels, plays and children's books. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1992, the Medal of Liberty and the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986. The Nobel Committee called him a "Messenger to mankind". He had been also named "Commander of the Order of the British Empire".

He was born in Romania in 1928. He was of Romanian, Hungarian and German descent. His parents and one of his 3 siblings did not survive the Holocaust. He was married to Marion Erster Rose.

After all, God is God because he remembers.Elie Wiesel

Because of indifference, one dies before one actually dies.Elie Wiesel

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.Elie Wiesel

Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.Elie Wiesel

Human beings should be held accountable. Leave God alone. He has enough problems.Elie Wiesel

I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.Elie Wiesel

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

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.Elie Wiesel

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.Elie Wiesel

I was very, very religious. And of course I wrote about it in 'Night.' I questioned God's silence. So I questioned. I don't have an answer for that. Does it mean that I stopped having faith? No. I have faith, but I question it.Elie Wiesel

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.Elie Wiesel

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.Elie Wiesel

Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.Elie Wiesel

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.Elie Wiesel

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

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures peace is our gift to each other.Elie Wiesel

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.Elie Wiesel

No human race is superior no religious faith is inferior. All collective judgments are wrong. Only racists make them.Elie Wiesel

No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.Elie Wiesel

Not to transmit an experience is to betray it.Elie Wiesel

Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.Elie Wiesel

Peace is our gift to each other.Elie Wiesel

Some stories are true that never happened.Elie Wiesel

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

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.Elie Wiesel

What does mysticism really mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.Elie Wiesel

Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must - at that moment - become the center of the universe.Elie Wiesel

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.Elie Wiesel

Elie Wiesel was a famous American writer, who was born on September 9, 1928. As a person born on this date, Elie Wiesel is listed in our database as the 10th most popular celebrity for the day (September 9) and the 10th most popular for the year (1928).

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