Elie Wiesel Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Heart, Past

  "Hope, Despair and Memory". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1986.

• Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming. At night everything is more intense, more true. The echo of words that have been spoken during the day takes on a new and deeper meaning. The tragedy of man is that he doesn't know how to distinguish between day and night. He says things at night that should only be said by day.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Men

  Elie Wiesel (1961). “Dawn”

• Some stories are true that never happened.

  Elie Wiesel

  Love, Dream, Writing

• Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Dust

  Night ch. 3 (1960)

• Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Holocaust

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.55, Macmillan

• Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Moon, Men

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Souls on Fire”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

• Night is purer than day; it is better for thinking and loving and dreaming.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Night, Thinking

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Dawn: A Novel”, p.5, Macmillan

• I was inspired by the marvelous example of Giacometti, the great sculptor. He always said that his dream was to do a bust so small that it could enter a matchbook, but so heavy that no one could lift it. That's what a good book should be.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Book, Example

• No one may speak for the dead, no one may interpret their mutilated dreams and visions.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Vision, May

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.140, Macmillan

• In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dream, Talking, Literature

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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