Elie Wiesel Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• 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

  Memories, People, Holocaust

• 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

  Inspirational, Life, Truth

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “The Fifth Son: A novel”, p.54, Schocken

• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Loneliness, Responsibility

• We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, 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 earth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Night, Men, Numbers

  Elie Wiesel (1985). “Night ; Dawn ; Day”, Jason Aronson

• Man’s strength resides in his capacity and desire to elevate himself, so as to attain the good. To travel step by step toward the heights. And that is all he can do. To reach heaven and remain there is beyond his powers: Even Moses had to return to earth. Is it the same for evil?

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Evil, Heaven

  Elie Wiesel (2007). “The Judges: A Novel”, p.183, Schocken

• We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.

  Elie Wiesel

  Loneliness, Break Through, Bridges

• The act of writing is for me often nothing more than the secret or conscious desire to carve words on a tombstone: to the memory of a town forever vanished, to the memory of a childhood in exile, to the memory of all those I loved and who, before I could tell them I loved them, went away.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Tombstone, Writing

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.10, Schocken

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