Elie Wiesel Quotes

God made man because he loved to listen to stories.

God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.

Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.

People just love stories.

We're all stories, in the end.

almost all novels are love stories.

The problem with most love stories in my opinion is that they're too simplistic.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

A human being is nothing but a story with skin around it.

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left the end of our story untold. That mystery is troubling to us. How could it be otherwise? Without the final part, we think, how are we to make sense of all that went before: which is to say, our lives? So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

We are the only animal that tells stories.

For reasons which I can't logically explain, in all of the films I've done, I've ended up doing love stories of one kind or another, and it seems to me that love stories are extremely dependent on the obstacles you can place between the lovers. There is no love story without it.

People love stories; they use stories to make sense of the world.

As human beings, it's good to build stories.

Storytellers all, we humans might run out of time even as we triumph over the problem of running out of space. But we will never run out of stories.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

God made us for one reason: so He could have fellowship with us. It wasn't that He was lonely or needed us but He made us in His image so He could shower His love upon us.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate language with which to tell the story: This seems to me quintessentially human, one of the great adventures of our species.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.

God has been incredible in creating us to be persons.