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Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) QUOTES

1 " For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. To forget would be not only dangerous but offensive; to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

2 " Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

3 " My faceless neighbor spoke up:

“Don’t be deluded. Hitler has made it clear that he will annihilate all Jews before the clock strikes twelve.”

I exploded:

“What do you care what he said? Would you want us to consider him a prophet?
His cold eyes stared at me. At last he said, wearily:

“I have more faith in Hitler than in anyone else. He alone has kept his promises, all his promises, to the Jewish people. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

4 " There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will keep death away from yourselves. Hell is not for eternity. And now, a prayer - or rather, a piece of advice: let there be comradeship among you. 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. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

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

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

6 " All this under a magnificent blue sky. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

7 " 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) "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

8 " I had many things to say, I did not have the words to say them. Painfully aware of my limitations, I watched helplessly and language became an obstacle. It became clear that it would be necessary to invent a new language... I would pause at every sentence, and start over and over again. I would conjure up other verbs, other images, other silent cries. It still was not right. But what exactly was “it”? “It” was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of being usurped, profaned. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

9 " We believed in God, trusted in man, and lived with the illusion that every one of us has been entrusted with a sacred spark. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

10 " The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria... "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

11 " Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

12 " The stars were only sparks of the fire which devoured us. Should that fire die out one day, there would be nothing left in the sky but dead stars, dead eyes. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

13 " Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

14 " We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

15 " Our backyard looked like a marketplace. Valuable objects, precious rugs, silver candlesticks, Bibles and other ritual objects were strewn over the dusty grounds- pitiful relics that seemed never to have had a home. All this under a magnificent blue sky. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

16 " This day I ceased to plead. I was no longer capable of lamentation. On the contrary, I felt very strong. I was the accuser, God the accused. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

17 " He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

18 " Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

19 " To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)

20 " Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night, seven times cursed and seven times sealed....Never shall I forget those moments which murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to dust. Never shall I forget these things, even if I am condemned to live as long as God Himself. Never. "

― Elie Wiesel , Night (The Night Trilogy, #1)