Elie Wiesel Quotes

I think you make the best with what you've got, you know? Sometimes you have very little. And you just always try to rise to higher ground, because you're going to suffer one way or the other, so you just hope that you have strength and perseverance and good friends and faith, some kind of faith, to endure and move on to greener pastures.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

There's so much life to live, and if you just keep on breathing and keep on walking, you will get through everything.

Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

I think it's about not just the crisis you're in, but how do you get to the other side? How do we heal? How do we survive this experience while remaining hopeful instead of filled with despair? That's what interests me.

Life is tough, and things don't always work out well, but we should be brave and go on with our lives.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I have this thing I say to myself that 'tomorrow can be better.' And I remember that period in my life where I never felt like tomorrow could be better. It was always dread for the next day.

I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.

There is a tomorrow after a disaster, and it's sometimes hard to remember that in the midst of it.

There are so many difficult things we're living through in the world today, so many horrible events, but we cannot let them stop us. No matter what happens, I feel you must move forward with optimism and not get totally sideswiped.

If you're actually talking to someone who's been through a disastrous number of years, that only means one thing: They survived it.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

You can lay down and die, or you can get up and fight, but that's it - there's no turning back.

I'm a survivor - a living example of what people can go through and survive.

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.

The heart will break, but broken live on.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

As long as we can tell stories about our ability to survive, the more we will hope, not self-destruct.

At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life's all about.

You rarely hear women crying in Grozney. They have cried their eyes out long ago.

Ultimately, we're incredibly resilient creatures. People really do get on with the business of living.