Elie Wiesel Quotes

I'm dying always.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

Even trees do not die without a groan.

Death is the greatest evil, because it cuts off hope.

Cause I swear that I'm dying, slowly but its happening.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

History says, 'Don't hope on this side of the grave.'

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

People die because they find living too painful.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

I can feel myself dying inside.

I'm happy to stick with my persona. There are themes of love lost and love regained, but the main themes of all poems are basically love and death, and that seems to be the message of poetry.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

’While there is life, there’s hope,’ he cried; ‘Then why such haste?’ so groaned and died.

Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before I have in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed. Looking Glass is dead. Toohoolhoolzote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes and no. He who led the young men is dead. It is cold and we have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets. The little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets; no food; no one knows where they are, perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children and see how many I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs. I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.

My music comes from heartbreak - from feeling what it's like to lose everything and not being able to express it through words because it doesn't make sense.

The darkness enveloped us. All I could hear was the violin and it was as if Juliek's soul had become the bow. He was playing his life...He played that which he would never play again.

We are dying, we are dying, piecemeal our bodies are dying and our strength leaves us, and our soul cowers naked in the dark rain over the flood, cowering in the last branches of the tree of our life.

It hath been often said, that it is not death, but dying, which is terrible.

Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world.

You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!