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"Human being suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"To forget the dead would exist akin to killing them a second time."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"Never shall I forget that night, the first night in military camp, which has turned my life into one long night, 7 times cursed and vii times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to grit. Never shall I forget these things, fifty-fifty if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to enquire Him the right questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Then came the march past the victims. The 2 men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. But the third rope was even so moving: the child, too light, was still animate...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering betwixt life and decease, writhing earlier our eyes.
And we were forced to await at him at shut range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was still red, his eyes non yet extinguished.
Backside me, I heard the aforementioned man asking:
"For God'southward sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice answer:
"Where He is? This is where--hanging here from this gallows..."
That night, the soup tasted of corpses."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"For the survivor who chooses to prove, it is clear: his duty is to testify for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive futurity generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous just offensive; to forget the expressionless would be akin to killing them a second fourth dimension."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"For in the end, it is all nearly memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I shall always remember that grinning. From what world did it come from?"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"One more than stab to the middle, i more reason to hate. One less reason to live."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"His common cold eyes stared at me. At final, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"They are committing the greatest indignity human beings can inflict on one another: telling people who have suffered excruciating pain and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (five)"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"In that location's a long route of suffering ahead of you. Just don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. And then now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Take faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and yous will keep decease away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: allow there be comradeship amongst you lot. Nosotros are all brothers, and nosotros are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help i another. It is the just mode to survive."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"He explained to me with groovy insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the reply."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"One 24-hour interval when I was able to get upwardly, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his optics as he gazed at me has never left me."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our historic period, that humanity would never tolerate it…"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, accept a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow."
― Élie Wiesel, Nighttime
"Never shall I forget that nighttime, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that fume.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into fume under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, fifty-fifty were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"My faceless neighbor spoke up:
"Don't be deluded. Hitler has fabricated it articulate that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve."
I exploded:
"What do you care what he said? Would you desire u.s.a. to consider him a prophet?
His cold eyes stared at me. At concluding he said, wearily:
"I have more religion in Hitler than in anyone else. He lone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was equally though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished time to come. He played as he would never play once again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could come across Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a foreign overwhelming little corpse."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"In the beginning there was faith - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is unsafe."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"Did I write information technology so as non to get mad or, on the opposite, to get mad in club to sympathize the nature of madness?"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Blessed be God's proper noun? Why, but why would I anoint Him? Every fiber in me rebelled. Because He caused thousands of children to burn in His mass graves? Considering he kept half-dozen crematoria working twenty-four hours and night, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His great might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and and so many other factories of death? How could I say to Him: Blessed be K, Omnipotent, Chief of the Universe, who chose us among all nations to be tortured mean solar day and nighttime, to watch as our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, end up in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen the states to be slaughtered on Thine chantry?"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I am non so naïve equally to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or shake the censor of the globe. Books no longer have the power they one time did. Those who kept silent yesterday volition remain silent tomorrow."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Just because of his telling, many who did non believe have come up to believe, and some who did not care have come up to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the expressionless, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen over again and that information technology must never happen again. Better than one centre exist cleaved a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if information technology means that a g other hearts need non exist cleaved at all. (vi)"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject affair, specially it it is truthful, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would accept preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, besides composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the reply....
And why do you lot pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the force to ask Him the existent questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved breadbasket. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"We were masters of nature, masters of the globe. Nosotros had forgotten everything--decease, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Why exercise you lot pray?" he asked me, after a moment.
Why did I pray? A foreign question. Why did I live? Why did I breathe?
"I don't know why," I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know why."
After that day I saw him ofttimes. He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a ability that did not lie in the respond. "Human raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him," he was fond of repeating. "That is the true dialogue. Man questions God and God answers. But nosotros don't sympathize His answers. Nosotros can't understand them. Considering they come up from the depths of the soul, and they stay at that place until death. Y'all will notice the true answers, Eliezer, just inside yourself!"
"And why do you pray, Moshe?" I asked him. "I pray to the God within me that He will requite me the strength to inquire Him the right questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
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