Elie Wiesel Quotes About Eyes

Quotes about: Eyes

• His cold eyes stared at me. At last, he said wearily: "I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.104, Macmillan

• 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.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Ghetto, Eye

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.139, Macmillan

• My faceless neighbor spoke up: “Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.” I exploded: “What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: “I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, People, Promise

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.116, Penguin UK

• I shall never forget Juliek. How could I forget this concert given before an audience of the dead and dying? Even today, when I hear that particular piece by Beethoven, my eyes close and out of the darkness emerges the pale and melancholy face of my Polish comrade bidding farewell to an audience of dying men.

  Elie Wiesel

  Farewell, Eye, Men

  Elie Wiesel, Marion Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.134, Penguin UK

• From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Night, Mirrors

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

• In the beginning was belief, foolish belief, and faith, empty faith, and illusion, the terrible illusion. ... We believed in God, had faith in man, and lived with the illusion that in each one of us is a sacred spark from the fire of the shekinah, that each one carried in his eyes and in his soul the sign of God. This was the source—if not the cause—of all our misfortune.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Men, Fire

• The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes.

  Elie Wiesel

  Stars, Eye, Fire

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

• I was the accuser, God the accused. My eyes were open and I was alone - terribly alone in a world without God and without (hu)man(ity).

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Men, Thought Provoking

  Elie Wiesel, Harry J. Cargas (1993). “Telling the tale: a tribute to Elie Wiesel on the occasion of his 65th birthday : essays, reflections, and poems”, Time Being Press

• I think those governments who resent religion, they're afraid of religion because religion may be in their eyes, in their views be seen as a counter government or a parallel government.

  Elie Wiesel

  Eye, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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