Elie Wiesel Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• 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

• For the dead and the living, we must bear witness. Not only are we responsible for the memories of the dead, we are responsible for what we do with those memories

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Bears, Responsible

• Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Inspiring, Memories, Civilization

  "Amb. Nancy Brinker: We must never forget Elie Wiesel and his message" By Amb. Nancy Brinker, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2016.

• With every cell of my being and with every fiber of my memory I oppose the death penalty in all forms. I do not believe any civilized society should be at the service of death. I don't think it's human to become an agent of the angel of death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Believe, Angel

• 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

• [Memory] is a passion no less powerful or pervasive than love. It is [the ability] to live in more than one world, to prevent the past from fading, and to call upon the future to illuminate it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Powerful, Passion

• For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Ends, Source

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

• Remembering is a noble and necessary act. The call of memory, the call to memory, reaches us from the very dawn of history. No commandment figures so frequently, so insistently, in the Bible. It is incumbent upon us to remember the good we have received, and the evil we have suffered.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Evil, Dawn

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

• I've given my life to the principle and the ideal of memory, and remembrance.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Remembrance, Principles

• Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Real, Imagination

• Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Keywords

• For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Past, Collective Memory

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.14, Macmillan

• I have tried to keep memory alive... I have tried to fight those who would forget. Because if we forget, we are guilty, we are accomplices.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Fighting, Alive

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.170, Schocken

• It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Memories, War

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.5, Macmillan

• 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

• What would the future of man be if it were devoid of memory?

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Men, Ifs

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.9, Schocken

• For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Years, People

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

• If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Writing, Hatred

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.8, Schocken

• I believe in books. And when our people [coughing] - our people of Jerusalem, let's say after the Romans destroyed the temple and the city, all we took is a little book, that's all. Not treasures, we had no treasures. They were ransacked, taken away. But the book - the little book - and this book produced more books, thousands, hundreds of thousands of books, and in the book we found our memory, and our attachment to that memory is what kept us alive.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Taken

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• 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

• What do all my books have in common? A commitment to memory.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Book, Commitment

  "Building a Moral Society". Chamberlin Lecture at Lewis and Clark College, 1995.

• Memory feeds a culture, nourishes hope and makes a human, human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Culture, Humans

• I'd rather speak as a student of philosophy. Philosophically it makes no sense, absolutely makes no sense. Why should people inherit evil things when their memories could contain and should invoke good things?

  Elie Wiesel

  Memories, Philosophy, Evil

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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