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"Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"To forget the dead would exist akin to killing them a second time."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"Never shall I forget that nighttime, the offset night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"I pray to the God within me that He volition give me the forcefulness to ask Him the correct questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"Then came the march by the victims. The two men were no longer alive. Their tongues were hanging out, swollen and bluish. Simply the 3rd rope was yet moving: the child, as well light, was however animate...
And so he remained for more than half an hour, lingering between life and expiry, writhing before our eyes.
And we were forced to await at him at close range. He was still alive when I passed him. His tongue was withal cherry-red, his eyes non withal extinguished.
Backside me, I heard the same man asking:
"For God'southward sake, where is God?"
And from within me, I heard a voice respond:
"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 testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness 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 simply offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"For in the end, it is all nigh retentivity, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I shall always recollect that smile. From what world did it come from?"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"I more stab to the heart, 1 more reason to hate. One less reason to live."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more than organized religion 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 i another: telling people who accept suffered excruciating hurting and loss that their pain and loss were illusions. (v)"
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"At that place'due south a long road of suffering ahead of you. Merely don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So at present, muster your force, and don't lose heart. We shall all encounter the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Higher up all else, take religion. Bulldoze out despair, and you will keep expiry away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And at present, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let in that location be comradeship among you. We are all brothers, and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Assist one another. It is the but mode to survive."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"He explained to me with cracking insistence that every question posessed a ability that did not prevarication in the reply."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the contrary wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The await in his optics equally he gazed at me has never left me."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"I told him that I did not believe that they could burn people in our age, that humanity would never tolerate it…"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Never shall I forget that dark, the beginning night in camp, that turned my life into one long nighttime 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 smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my religion 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
"...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I experience that books, merely similar people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Those who kept silent yesterday volition remain silent tomorrow."
― Élie Wiesel, Dark
"My faceless neighbour spoke up:
"Don't be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he volition annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve."
I exploded:
"What practice you lot care what he said? Would you desire us to consider him a prophet?
His cold eyes stared at me. At terminal he said, wearily:
"I have more than faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and information technology was as though Juliek'due south 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 future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could meet Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, expressionless. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming picayune corpse."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"In the kickoff there was religion - which is childish; trust - which is vain; and illusion - which is unsafe."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Did I write it so as not to become mad or, on the reverse, to go mad in lodge to understand the nature of madness?"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Blessed be God's proper noun? Why, but why would I anoint Him? Every cobweb in me rebelled. Because He acquired thousands of children to burn down in His mass graves? Because he kept half-dozen crematoria working day and dark, including Sabbath and the Holy Days? Because in His slap-up might, He had created Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna, and and then many other factories of decease? How could I say to Him: Blest be M, Omnipotent, Master of the Universe, who chose us amid all nations to be tortured day and night, to watch equally our fathers, our mothers, our brothers, terminate upward in the furnaces? Praised be Thy Holy Name, for having chosen us to be slaughtered on Thine chantry?"
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"I am not then naïve as to believe that this slim volume will change the course of history or milkshake the conscience of the earth. Books no longer have the ability they once did. Those who kept silent yesterday volition remain silent tomorrow."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"But considering of his telling, many who did not believe take come to believe, and some who did not intendance accept come 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 again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not exist broken at all. (vi)"
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing bailiwick matter, peculiarly 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 residual of the world, likewise composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)"
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"[Moishe] explained to me, with great accent, that every question possessed a ability that was lost in the respond....
And why practice y'all pray, Moishe?' I asked him.
I pray to the God within me for the strength to inquire Him the real questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Dark
"Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a trunk. Perhaps less than that fifty-fifty: a starved stomach. The breadbasket lonely was aware of the passage of time."
― Elie Wiesel, Nighttime
"We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--expiry, 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 globe."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
"Why practise you 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, fifty-fifty more than disturbed and ill at ease. "I don't know why."
After that twenty-four hours I saw him often. He explained to me with bang-up insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. "Human being raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him," he was fond of repeating. "That is the truthful dialogue. Human questions God and God answers. But we don't understand His answers. Nosotros tin can't understand them. Considering they come up from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!"
"And why do you pray, Moshe?" I asked him. "I pray to the God within me that He volition give me the strength to ask Him the right questions."
― Elie Wiesel, Night
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