Quotes from Elie Wiesel

If there is a single theme that dominates all my writings, all my obsessions, it is that of memory-because I fear forgetfulness as much as hatred and death.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.

It all happened so fast. The ghetto. The deportation. The sealed cattle car. The fiery altar upon which the history of our people and the future of mankind were meant to be sacrificed.

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.

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.