Author: Elie Wiesel

Cites

• A. W. Streane (1)
  • IN: A Mad Desire to Dance (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Arbaa nikhnessu lepardes: Four Wise Men entered the orchard of secret knowledge. The son of Azzai looked at the orchard and lost his life. The son of Zoma looked at the orchard and lost his faith. Only Rabbi Akiba entered in peace and left in peace.
    FROM: The Talmud, Khagiga treatise, (1891), Book, NULL
• One-eyed Paritus (2)
  • IN: A Mad Desire to Dance (2009) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Why, young friend, do you say that happiness doesn't exist? That love is only an illusion? If true, why say it? And why say it, since it is true? Long ago, you loved a gracious and beautiful woman who lived on the other side of the oceans and mountains. And you suffered from it. Well, in that distant Orient where she hoped to share memorable moments with you, she remains gracious and beautiful. Head lowered and smiling, she is waiting for you. And every time my eyes meet hers, I know that love causes madness and happiness.
    FROM: Message to a Student Who Is Frightened of Becoming Old, (2009), Fictional, NULL
  • IN: Hostage (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Can man be free in prison? Can the eternal wanderer lose his sense of eternity as he gropes his way forward through the forest whose huge trees touch the sky? Will the child who is searching for the old man in order to gather his tears of joy and memories of sadness, find them before his years disappear in the mists of the grieving dawn? Oh, if only I knew the art of questioning.
    FROM: Time, a series of Errors?, (2010), Fictional, NULL
• NULL (1)
  • IN: The Judges (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And in those days the judges themselves were judged.
    FROM: The Midrash, (None), Religious Text, NULL
• Fyodor Dostoevsky (1)
  • IN: The Judges (1999) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: If the judge were just, perhaps the criminal would not be guilty.
    FROM: The Brothers Karamazov, (1880), Novel, Russia
• Maimonides (1)
  • IN: Twilight (1991) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The world couldn't exist without madmen
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Spain
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: Twilight (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which turned my life into long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never can I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.
    FROM: NULL, (1991), Author, Romania/US
• The Talmud (1)
  • IN: The Forgotten (1992) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Respect the old man who has forgotten what he learned. For broken Tablets have a place in the Ark beside the Tablets of the Law.
    FROM: The Talmud, (500), The Talmud, NULL
• Nikos Kazantzakis (1)
  • IN: Day (1962) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I was once more struck by the truth of the ancient saying: Man's heart is a ditch full of blood. The loved ones who have died throw themselves down on the bank of this ditch to drink the blood and so come to life again; the dearer they are to you, the more of your blood they drink.
    FROM: Zorba the Greek, (1946), Novel, Greece

Cited by

• Michael P. Spradlin (1)
  • IN: The Enemy Above (2016) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. And anyone who does not remember betrays them again.
    FROM: NULL, (None), Interview, US/Romania
• M.J Rose (1)
  • IN: The Memorist (2008) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Memory is then the key word which combines past and present, past and future.
    FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Romania/US
• J. L. Witterick (1)
  • IN: My Mother's Secret (2013) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all.
    FROM: Night, (1960), Book, US/Romania
• Daniel Silva (1)
  • IN: Portrait of a Spy (2011) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: One person of integrity can make a difference, a difference of life and death.
    FROM: Elie Wiesel’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, December 10, 1986, (1986), Speech, US/Romania
• Elie Wiesel (1)
  • IN: Twilight (1991) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which turned my life into long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed. Never can I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live.
    FROM: NULL, (1991), Author, Romania/US
• Jilliane Hoffman (1)
  • IN: All the Little Pieces (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.
    FROM: U.S. News and World Report, (1986), Article, US