Elie Wiesel Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

  Elie Wiesel

  Bystanders, Remembrance, Silence

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Night”, p.141, Macmillan

• I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

  Elie Wiesel

  Peace, Bystanders, History

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

• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see. In the face of injustice, one may not look the other way. When someone suffers, and it is not you, that person comes first. One's very suffering gives one priority. . . . To watch over one who grieves is a more urgent duty than to think of God.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Grieving, Giving

• A Jew must be sensitive to the pain of all human beings. A Jew cannot remain indifferent to human suffering... The mission of the Jewish people has never been to make the world more Jewish, but to make it more human.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Compassion, People

• Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Suffering, Concern

  Elie Wiesel (2011). “From the Kingdom of Memory: Reminiscences”, p.171, Schocken

• In the face of suffering, one has no right to turn away, not to see.

  Elie Wiesel

  Compassion, Suffering, Faces

  Elie Wiesel (2013). “Messengers of God: A True Story of Angelic Presence and the Return to”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

• An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Indifference, Humans

• I don't think I should accept other people's suffering because I suffered. Just the opposite, because I suffered I don't want others to suffer.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Opposites, People

• We must choose between the violence of adults and the smiles of children. Between the ugliness of hate and the will to oppose it. Between inflicting suffering and humiliation on our fellow man and offering him the solidarity and hope he deserves.

  Elie Wiesel

  Children, Hate, Men

  "Making Sense of a Senseless World" by Emily Bennington, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 26, 2012.

• Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Suffering, Cry

  Elie Wiesel (2006). “Day: A Novel”, p.96, Macmillan

• A man can laugh while he suffers.

  Elie Wiesel

  Men, Laughing, Suffering

• We are all brothers and we are all suffering the same fate. The same smoke floats over all our heads. Help one another. It is the only way to survive. (pg. 39)

  Elie Wiesel

  Brother, Fate, Suffering

• You're at the bottom of the mountain. May you climb up without suffering.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Mountain, May

  Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.155, Knopf

• you can do something. You can, even for one person Don't turn away; help. Because those who suffer, often suffer not because of the person or the group that inflicts the suffering; they seem to suffer because nobody cares.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Groups, Care

• I came to the conclusion that I am free to choose my own suffering. But I am not free to consent to someone else's suffering.

  Elie Wiesel

  Suffering, Conclusion, Consent

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• I don't speak about my pain. My pain is something that doesn't need to be purged. I want to prevent people from suffering. I don't speak about my suffering. Suffering is something personal and discreet. Also, I know it will never leave me. I don't want it to leave me. It would be a betrayal.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Betrayal, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

• I would hesitate to give advice to the Dalai Lama and his people because they are suffering. The Dalai Lama suffered from exile and the people in Tibet suffer from oppression.

  Elie Wiesel

  People, Giving, Advice

  Source: www.savetibet.org

• In spite of despair, hope must exist. In spite of suffering, humanity must prevail. And in spite of all the differences in the world, the worst enemy, the worst peril, is indifference.

  Elie Wiesel

  Worst Enemy, Differences, Humanity

• If there is one person on the planet who still is suffering from loneliness and from pain or despair, and we don't know about it, or we don't want to know about it, then something is wrong with the world.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Loneliness, Suffering

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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