Quotes from Night — Elie Wiesel
1928–2016 Romania
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"The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria..."
Night (1960)
To forget would not only be dangerous but offensive. to forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.
Night (1960)
They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.
Night (1960)
Most people thought we would remain in the ghetto until the end of the war, until the arrival of the Red Army. Afterward everything would be as before. The ghetto was ruled by neither German nor Jew; it was ruled by delusion.
Night (1960)
The beloved objects that we had carried with us from place to place were now left behind in the wagon and, with them, finally, our illusions.
Night (1960)
No one was praying for the night to pass quickly. The stars were but sparks of the immense conflagration that was consuming us. Were this conflagration to be extinguished one day, nothing would be left in the sky but extinct stars and unseeing eyes.
Night (1960)
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.
From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me.
The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me.
Night (1960)
The barbed wire that encircled us like a wall did not fill us with real fear. In fact, we felt this was not a bad thing: we were entirely among ourselves. A small Jewish republic...
Night (1960)