Elie Wiesel Quotes

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

When all of a sudden you're successful and sought after overnight, you are instantly opened to a lot of sides of humanity that the average person is never going to see. And those can often be pretty disheartening, and it can make somebody pretty lonely.

Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?

No one can endure his own solitude.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that is capable of reason and poetry but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, a mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding. The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it will always be misunderstood.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and - in spite of True Romance magazines - we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.

There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely.

Ye have cast out yer brothers for devils and now complain ye, lamenting, that ye've been left to fight alone.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you