We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark.
Elie WieselEverybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.
Elie WieselFrom the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me.
Elie WieselOh, it is not death that frightens me, but the impossibility of imparting some meaning to my past.
Elie Wiesel