Elie Wiesel Quotes

Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

Life belongs to man, but the meaning of life is beyond him.

What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion.

Every kid goes to school full of questions about meaning. You know, 'What's my place in the universe? What does it mean to be a human being? What are human beings?' Existing courses cannot help you answer those questions. They can't even help you ask them.

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

On a cosmic scale, our life is insignificant, yet this brief period when we appear in the world is the time in which all meaningful questions arise.

The question any novel is really trying to answer is, Is life worth living?

If the existence of human beings leads to nothing, what is all this comedy about?

If there is no other life, then this one has been enough to make it worth being born myself...a human being.

Does life have any meaningful purpose?

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

The purpose of life is to live it.

I finally did not understand if we are living to survive or we are living to die!

If life is so meaningless, then why are we always bringing it up?

The whole of science, and one is tempted to think the whole of the life of any thinking man, is trying to come to terms with the relationship between yourself and the natural world. Why are you here, and how do you fit in, and what's it all about.

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it.

One life is worth the universe. Poe was able to go right into the very depth of life and to demonstrate this.

I was looking for what the meaning of life was.

If you're alive, there's a purpose for your life.

At the heart of life lies a mystery that everybody has to wrestle with. What the heck are we doing here? How does this world work, and how do I fit?

Men's lives have meaning, not their deaths.

The purpose of life is life.

That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff.

If I want to read something that's really giving me something serious and fundamental to think about, about the human condition, if you like, or what we're all doing here, or what's going on, then I'd rather read something by a scientist in the life sciences, like Richard Dawkins, for instance.

The greatest sin is to miss the point of human existence.