We have to go into the despair and go be... by Elie Wiesel | We Heart Quotes

Author Night Despair Oppression Remembrance

We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.

- Elie Wiesel

Other quotes by Elie Wiesel

Anger God

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

- Elie Wiesel

Memory Want

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

- Elie Wiesel

Life

Our obligation is to give meaning to life and in doing so to overcome the passive, indifferent life.

- Elie Wiesel

Love

The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference.

- Elie Wiesel

Beginning

There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

- Elie Wiesel

One person of integrity can make a difference.

- Elie Wiesel

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