Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.
Elie WieselMy faceless neighbor spoke up: โDonโt be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.โ I exploded: โWhat do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet? His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily: โI have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people.
Elie WieselOne can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.
Elie WieselIn 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