Home / Quotes / Quote by Elie Wiesel

Quote by Elie Wiesel

“It was the beginning of the war. I was twelve years old, my parents were alive, and God still dwelt in our town.”

Quote by Elie Wiesel

Book:Dawn: A Novel

Work

Dawn is a narrative that delves into the concepts of self-discovery and personal growth, set against the backdrop of a transformative journey. more

Author

A renowned Jewish author and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Elie Wiesel is known for his profound literary achievements and for recording and spreading the history of the Holocaust as a survivor. His works deeply reveal the terror of the Nazi Holocaust and the universal nature of human suffering. more

You May Also Like

“And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?”

Persons Sometimes Moments Missing Terrible Solitude Findings Spite Sane Fleeting Dose Subway

Author:Jhumpa Lahiri

“Once released from life, having lost it in such violence, I couldn’t calculate my steps. I didn’t have time for contemplation. In violence it is the getting out that you concentrate on. When you begin to go over the edge, life receding from you as a boat recedes inevitably from the shore, you hold on to death tightly, like a rope that will transport you, and you swing out on it, hoping to land away from where you are.”

Lost Steps Violence Land Edges Boat Contemplation Where You Are Shore Swings Rope Transport Over The Edge

Author:Alice Sebold

“How will it ever be bearable, Priestess?” His voice was rough. He sounded completely broken. “You’ll see her again. She’s with Nyx now. She’ll either wait for you in the Goddess’s meadow, or she’ll be reborn and her soul will find you again during this lifetime. You can bear it because you know that spirit never really ends-we never really end.”

Knows Soul Ends Spirit Waiting Voice Broken Bears Lifetime Rough Goddess You Again Meadows Reborn Bearable Priestesses Nyx

Author:P. C. Cast

“Despite a lack of natural ability, I did have the one element necessary to all early creativity: naïveté, that fabulous quality that keeps you from knowing just how unsuited you are for what you are about to do.”

Art Humor Funny Natural Ability Quality Creativity Knowing Elements Experience Despite Fabulous Vets Natural Ability

Book:Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

Source: Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.”

Young Realizing Strange Young Women Old Woman

Book:Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

Source: Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France

“Words were useless. At times, they might sound wonderful, but they let you down the moment you really needed them. You could never find the right words, never, and where would you look for them? The heart is as silent as a fish, however much the tongue tries to give it a voice.”

Giving Trying Looks Heart Moments Might Sound Voice Wonderful Needed Silent Fishes Tongue Useless Right Words

Book:Inkspell

Source: Inkspell

“The frog is almost five hundred million years old. Could you really say with much certainty that America, with all its strength and prosperity, with its fighting man that is second to none, and with its standard of living that is highest in the world, will last as long as...the frog?”

Men World Years Long Lasts America Fighting Millions Five Highest Standards Hundred Prosperity Certainty Frogs Standards Of Living Yossarian

Book:Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

Source: Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition

“Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the other side, that would only be the beginning of eternity.”

Ifs Remember Sides Ocean Bird Eternity Sand Grain Grains Of Sand

Book:In Cold Blood

Source: In Cold Blood

“She worries over the way her love for me comes and goes, appears and disappears. She doubts its reality simply because it isn't as steadily pleasurable as a kitten. God knows it is sad. The human voice conspires to desecrate everything on earth.”

Knows Way Humans Reality Earth Voice Worry Doubt Disappear God Knows Comes And Goes Kitten Human Voice

Author:J. D. Salinger

“We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead”

Dark Fire Love Each Other Fairytale

Author:Mathias Malzieu