Elie Wiesel Quotes About Suffering

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  • 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.

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

  • A man can laugh while he suffers.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Elie Wiesel (2012). “Hostage”, p.155, Knopf
  • I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation.

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

    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • An indifference to suffering makes humans inhuman

  • Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere.

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org
  • 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)

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