Elie Wiesel Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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.

• Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Mean, Broken

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

• Now, when I hear that Christians are getting together in order to defend the people of Israel, of course it brings joy to my heart. And it simply says, look, people have learned from history.

  Elie Wiesel

  Christian, Heart, Israel

• One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hate, Heart, Reason

• At Auschwitz, not only man died, but also the idea of man. To live in a world where there is nothing anymore, where the executioner acts as god, as judge-many wanted no part of it. It was its own heart the world incinerated at Auschwitz.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Men, Ideas

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “Legends of Our Time”, p.190, Schocken

• For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thank You, Gratitude, Grateful

  O, The Oprah Magazine Interview, November 2000.

• You take a text, you explore it, you enter it with all your heart and all your mind.

  Elie Wiesel

  Reading, Heart, Mind

  "Elie Wiesel on Passion". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org.

• But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He tells the story, out of infinite pain, partly to honor the dead, but also to warn the living - to warn the living that it could happen again and that it must never happen again. Better than one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all. (vi)

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Believe, Heart

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

• There is a coalition of anti-Semitism today, the extreme left, the extreme right and in the middle the huge corpus of Islam. I'm worried, I go around with a very heavy heart.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Islam, Today

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

• The term is piqua nevish [?] it means to save a soul, to save a life. And that commandment supersedes all others. It means literally you may violate almost everything except, I think, three commandments of the heart, 613, - you may do anything, violate any commandment and the injunction simply to save a human life. And there are enough lives to be saved in - in Tibet.

  Elie Wiesel

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.savetibet.org

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