Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel
Eliezer "Elie" Wiesel KBEwas a Romanian-born American Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of 57 books, written mostly in French and English, including Night, a work based on his experiences as a prisoner in the Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth30 September 1928
CountryUnited States of America
detachment examined longer past true
He had so examined his past that he could no longer look at it with enough detachment to tell what was true and what wasn't,
believe past spite
I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!
dark past opposites
It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as 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 future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.
past curiosity return
The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.
past government criminals
It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue
memories past keywords
Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.
memories past collective-memory
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 future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
past my-past impossibility
Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
past want my-past
I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.
dream heart past
Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.
canvas eliminate order pages painting reader remove sculpture somehow work writers-and-writing
Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.
corpse depths eyes left
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
teacher
I had a teacher that always told me, 'Don't promise, because if you promise, you must keep it.' I promised, so here I am.
believed listen witness
I always believed that to listen to a witness is to become a witness.