Elie Wiesel Quotes

A human being can stand any amount of pain.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

Love is the burning point of life, and since all life is sorrowful, so is love. The stronger the love, the more the pain. Love itself is pain, you might say -the pain of being truly alive.

It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without knowing that they are common to all the rest of the species; and, therefore, though he will not be less sensible of pain by being told that others are equally tormented, he will at least be freed from the temptation of seeking, by perpetual changes, that ease which is no where to be found, and though his diseases still continue, he escapes the hazard of exasperating it by remedies.

Art is always to a large extent about need, despair and hopelessness.

Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation.

And must I then, indeed, Pain, live with you all through my life?-sharing my fire, my bed, Sharing-oh, worst of all things!-the same head?- And, when I feed myself, feeding you too?

Everyone is in pain.No matter where they come from or what you think of them. Sorrow spares no one

After his blood, that which a man can next give out of himself is a tear.

True fighters dare face the sorrows of humanity, and look unflinchingly at bloodshed. What sorrow and joy are theirs! But the Creator's common device for ordinary people is to let the passage of time wash away old traces leaving only pale-red bloodstains and a vague pain; and he lets men live on ignobly and amid these, to keep this quasi-human world going.

But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.

Trying to figure things out was my gig. Without the human condition, there's no struggle, no pain and that means no laughter.

Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Art comes from joy and pain...But mostly from pain.

Great love, you believe, carries the seeds of great sorrow.

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

I love the majesty of human suffering.

To know the pain of too much tenderness

Nothing but the infinite Pity is sufficient for the infinite pathos of human life.