Chrispine > Chrispine's Quotes

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“There is divine beauty in learning... To learn means to accept the postulate that life did not begin at my birth. Others have been here before me, and I walk in their footsteps. The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, their quests. And so are you.”
― Elie Wiesel

“There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win. ”
― Elie Wiesel

“Think higher, feel deeper.”
― Elie Wiesel

“We must not see any person as an abstraction. Instead, we must see in every person a universe with its own secrets, with its own treasures, with its own sources of anguish, and with some measure of triumph.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?”
― Elie Wiesel, Night

“Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Love makes everything complicated.”
― Elie Wiesel

“Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.”
― Elie Wiesel

“I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both. ”
― Elie Wiesel