“One day when I was able to get up, 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 eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.”
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
“If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
“When it comes to death, we know that laughter and tears are pretty much the same thing.”
“Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.”
“You have to love somebody that much to also hate them that much, too. (191)”