Three days after the liberation of Buchenwald, I became very ill; some sort of poisoning. I was transferred to a hospital and spent two weeks between life and death. One day when I was able to get up, I decided to look at myself in the mirror on the opposite wall. I had not seen myself since the ghetto. From the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me. Elie Wiesel
Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle.
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Unknown
Life is but a dream for the dead.
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Gerard Way
My name is Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered.
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Alice Sebold
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret– you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Aberjhani
Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?
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Unknown
More Quotes By Elie Wiesel
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.
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
If the only prayer you say throughout your life is "Thank You, " then that will be enough.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must – at that moment – become the center of the universe.
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
