Elie Wiesel Quotes

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

We're all immortal until we die.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?

The disembodied spirit is immortal; there is nothing of it that can grow old or die. But the embodied spirit sees death on the horizon as soon as its day dawns.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

For me, life and death are very important themes. There is no life without death. That's why it's very important to me.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

You have a bout with death, things that touch your mortality, when that happens, all that bling-bling gets thrown away because all you've got is you and God.

Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of mortality - although 'True Blood' doesn't fall into that. Even though there's such a ridiculously high body count!

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.

Why do people embrace God? In my opinion, belief in God and an afterlife is a necessary extension of man's need to feel that this life does not end with what we call death.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

That's what religion teaches: that life is a temporary thing which is going to dissolve one day.