Elie Wiesel Quotes

I will never forget the hunger I used to feel.

There is no humiliation more abusive than hunger.

If a man has nothing to eat, fasting is the most intelligent thing he can do.

They that die by famine die by inches.

When I was eight years old, I was always starving. My brother and sister died from starvation.

You didn't eat some days for two days you didn't eat properly.

Hunger is the best pickle.

I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.

Death by starvation is slow.

No one has starved.

Hunger is the teacher of many.

Hold your kids from eating for 3 or 4 days, and see what they tell you on the 5th day. Hunger is a bad thing.

Hunger is a bad adviser.

The whole district seemed swept of food and a third of the population would be without food at Christmas, two thirds starving before February and by May 1848, there would be a total starvation.

We lived in the mountains for 14 months without much food. People were dying from starvation.

Everyone I have ever known very well has been concerned that I would eventually starve. Probably I shall. It isn't important enough to me to be an obsession.

Where there is hunger there is no hope. There is only desolation and pain. Hunger nurtures violence and fanaticism. A world where people starve will never be safe

Hunger hurts, but starving works, when it costs too much to love.

At the end of day, people are starving and, if people are starving and thirsty and they need to keep their families alive, people become desperate quickly. There are real world examples of this.

It's a dangerous thing when someone gets up in the morning and has nothing to eat.

There are people who go to bed hungry, and that is unconscionable.

Why do babies starve /When there's enough food to feed the world /Why when there's so many of us /Are there people still alone

What freedom does a starving man have?" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

Hunger steals the memory

The greatest violence is seeing a child go to bed hungry.