Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

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

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 Quote

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 Quote

I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

I write to understand as much as to be understood.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

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 Quote

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 Quote

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

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

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.
- Elie Wiesel Quote

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 Quote

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
- Elie Wiesel Quote