Elie Wiesel Quotes

As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.

The only secret people keep is immortality.

I believe in God and immortality.

Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it.

A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

I'm a big fan of talking about God. Whether people believe in God or not, that's so fascinating. Or where you go when you die is fascinating.

I've never really understood the desire to be immortal myself. The idea of both wanting to live forever in some form and wanting to stay young forever just sounds exhausting. It's one of those desires that people think they want but when you actually stop to think about what it actually means, it's really awful. One of the reasons that life is bearable is because it's going to end soon. One of the main concerns of fiction is how do we make a life of 85 years or so meaningful.

Come on, you Do you want to live forever?

I'm going to live forever, or die trying !

There's a remedy for everything except death.

Here's my question: What age are you when you're in Heaven?

We pay dearly for immortality: we die for it more than once during our lifetimes.

One of the things that doesn't come up as much as it should, especially in literary fiction, is this idea of faith and God... I feel like those are things that should be wrestled with... because they are such an integral part of our community on every level.

The deepest need of men is not food and clothing and shelter, important as they are. It is God.

Literature - Eastern and Western - abounds with stories, myths, legends about the search for youth, for eternal life.

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.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

The media, of course, loves to make claims about the fountain of youth. Don't believe it. No one has it. But we're getting close.

Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

I don't believe in an afterlife.

Every life is precious to God. God created every one of us. He gave us a soul, and that soul will live as long as God lives.