# Elie Wiesel

- Quotes: 38
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel

## Books

- [Night](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night.md) — 27 quotes
- [The Trial of God](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god.md) — 11 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> MARIA: Hell? Is he talking about hell? Good. For a moment I was afraid he was making sense.

p. 93 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/maria-hell-is-he-talking.md)

> BERISH: Prosecutor. That’s what I am going to be. Prosecutor.
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> MARIA: What’s that?
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> AVREMEL: That’s someone nice who has the right to be nasty.

p. 65 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/berish-prosecutor-thats.md)

> SAM: Isn’t this a circus...of sorts?
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> MENDEL: No. It’s theater. There is a difference.
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> SAM: Really? What is it?
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> MENDEL: A circus employs only clowns.
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> SAM: So does the theater.

p. 120 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/sam-isnt-this.md)

> MENDEL: Once you’re on your knees, you can’t stand up straight again.

p. 48 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/mendel-once-youre.md)

> AVREMEL: You came to us from Zhironov?
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> YANKEL: Were you there when—
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> MENDEL: Yes, I was there.
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> AVREMEL: How did you manage to escape?
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> SAM: There is always one singled out to escape.
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> YANKEL: A miracle!
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> SAM: There is always someone to call it a miracle.

p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/avremel-you-came.md)

> BERISH: Men and women are being beaten, tortured and killed—how can one not be afraid of Him? True, they are victims of men. But the killers kill in His name. Not all? True, but numbers are unimportant. Let one killer kill for His glory, and He is guilty. Every man who suffers or causes suffering, every woman who is raped, every child who is tormented implicates Him. What, you need more? A hundred or a thousand? Listen: either He is responsible or He is not. If He is let’s judge Him; if He is not, let Him stop judging us.

p. 54 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/berish-men-and.md)

> BERISH: I distrust miracles. They exist only in books, and books say anything.

p. 40 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/berish-i-distrust.md)

> MARIA: The people can say anything they please—
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> MENDEL: Right. Under one condition: that they do not say it.

p. 77 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/maria-the-people.md)

> "Yisgadal, veyiskadash, shmey raba...May His name be celebrated and sanctified..." whispered my father.
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> For the first time, I felt anger rising within me. Why should I sanctify His name? The Almighty, the eternal and terrible Master of the Universe, chose to be silent. What was there to thank Him for?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/yisgadal-veyiskadash-shmey.md)

> BERISH: I resigned from membership in God—I resigned from God. Let Him look for another innkeeper, let Him find another people, let Him push around another Jew—I’m through with Him!
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> MARIA: Don’t you worry, Master. You say things, but God isn’t angry How could He be? He isn’t even listening.

p. 15 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/the-trial-of-god/berish-i-resigned.md)

> Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
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> Never shall I forget that smoke.
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> Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
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> Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith forever.
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> Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
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> Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
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> Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
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> Never.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/never-shall-i-forget.md)

> One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto.
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> From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.
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> The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/elie-wiesel/night/one-day-when.md)