Elie Wiesel Quotes About Past

Quotes about: Past

• 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.

• I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Want, My Past

• [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

• 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

• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dark, Past, Opposites

• I believe in God--in spite of God! I believe in Mankind--in spite of Mankind! I believe in the Future--in spite of the Past!

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Past, Mankind

• In my lifetime I was to write only one book, this would be the one. Just as the past Lingers in the present, all my writings after night, including those that deal with biblical, Talmudic, or Hasidic themes, profoundly bear it's stamp, and cannot be understood if one has not read this very first of my works. Why did I write it? Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of the madness, the immense, terrifying madness that had erupted in history and in the conscience of mankind?

  Elie Wiesel

  Book, Writing, Biblical

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.4, Hill and Wang

• The criminal is not alone when he returns to the scene of the crime; he is joined there by his victim, and both are driven by the same curiosity: to relive that moment which stamped past and future for each.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Curiosity, Criminals

• Oh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, My Past, Impossibility

• The Tibetan religion has a past. And furthermore it has such an appeal. There again young people today are drawn to Buddhism and to Tibet. It's not only because of the Dalai Lama. It's because of what Tibet represents. There is a vast reservoir of knowledge, of mystical knowledge, which can be found in Tibet.The Chinese shouldn't be afraid of that really. They have other means of survival.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Buddhism, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• I would not like to draw analogies, with the past.Governments, leaders, intellectuals, mainly intellectuals who should know the ethical dimensions, are so important, so essential to culture, religion, to civilization, and to our own lives. And that means what? It means not to be indifferent, not to stand idly by. That is a biblical commandment that we are committed.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mean, Biblical, Past

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• It has become increasingly clear that Hungarian authorities are encouraging the whitewashing of tragic and criminal episodes in Hungary's past, namely the wartime Hungarian governments' involvement in the deportation and murder of hundreds of thousands of its Jewish citizens. I found it outrageous that the Speaker of the Hungarian National Assembly could participate in a ceremony honoring a Hungarian fascist ideologue

  Elie Wiesel

  Past, Government, Criminals

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