Elie Wiesel Quotes
What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
Elie Wiesel
Quotes to Explore
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
Nana Mouskouri
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I believe with a lot of support shows, people are very much there to see the headliner. You don't necessarily have their full attention, and some of what we do requires a lot of silence.
Oliver Sim
The xx
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
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We need a certain amount of energy to produce the sound. But then to sustain it, we have to give more energy, or otherwise, it goes and it dies in silence. And therefore, sound is absolutely, inextricably connected to time, the length of time.
Daniel Barenboim
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The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.
Walter Elliot
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.
Irvine Welsh
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There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.
Ingmar Bergman
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What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis
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I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.
Anton Zaslavski
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Running anywhere, blindly, hating the echo of her footsteps in the silence of the empty streets, Florentine fled from her own fear, fled from herself.
Gabrielle Roy
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Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.
Edgar Allan Poe
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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
Khalil Gibran
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and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.
Sarah Dessen
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Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
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Nations touch at their summits.
Walter Bagehot
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My mother handed down all these amazing scarves from the sixties and seventies, and I have a hundred of them.
Kelly Wearstler
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What hurts the victim most is not the cruelty of the oppressor but the silence of the bystander.
Elie Wiesel
