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

#another #gift #give #god #like

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#her #his #humanity #missing #person

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

#close #does #except #go #knowledge

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

#characteristic #desire #i #jewish #jewish people

Some stories are true that never happened. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#happened #never #some #stories #true

A destruction, an annihilation that only man can provoke, only man can prevent. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#destruction #man #only #prevent #provoke

In Jewish history there are no coincidences. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#history #jewish

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

#come #despair #given #hope #human

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

#beings #deeds #desires #follow #ideas

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

#answer #asked #auschwitz #even #i