Elie Wiesel Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• I write to understand as much as to be understood.

  Elie Wiesel

  Writing, Understanding, Literature

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.12, Schocken

• Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

  Elie Wiesel

  Giving, Meaning Of Life, Overcoming

• 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

• There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Eight

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.72, Univ. Press of Mississippi

• I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

  Elie Wiesel

  Death, Holocaust, Doe

• We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

  Elie Wiesel

  Hope, Holocaust, Despair

• That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Literature, Want

• 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

• [Shirat ha-Yam ] is one of the earliest, if not the earliest, pieces of Biblical literature that we possess. It is much closer to history than later traditions of the Exodus.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Yams, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• When I say it doesn't make much difference, I mean in terms of the importance of the piece of literature.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Differences, Pieces

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• Pain is essential. Often I cannot avoid it.Therefore all one can do is redeem it; and the only way to redeem it is through literature, art, poetry, music.

  Elie Wiesel

  Art, Pain, Way

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• No one has written the way Isaiah does. The royal style, the majesty of the language. He is called the prince of the prophets. No one has written like that. I've studied ancient literature, Homer, for example, but it's not the same thing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Ancient Literature, Style, Example

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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