It was an inspector of the Hungarian police, a friend of my father’s. “It was only after the war that I found out who had knocked that night. And left without waiting for a response.” Moishe the Beadle came running to our house. First edict: Jews were prohibited from leaving their residences for three days, under penalty of death. From that moment on, everything happened very quickly. “On the seventh day of Passover, the curtain finally rose: the Germans arrested the leaders of the Jewish community. For strategic reasons, for political reasons … In less than three days, German Army vehicles made their appearance on our streets.”
Optimism soon revived: The Germans will not come this far. “The news spread through Sighet like wildfire. Annihilate an entire people? Wipe out a population dispersed throughout so many nations? So many millions of people! By what means? In the middle of the twentieth century!” “Yes, we even doubted his resolve to exterminate us. “And throughout those evenings a conviction grew in me that would draw me with him into eternity, into that time where question and answer would become ONE.” That would present a danger not only for the one entering but also for those who are already inside.” He must not err and wish to enter the orchard through a gate other than his own. “There are a thousand and one gates leading into the orchard of mystical truth. ~Elie Wiesel, Night, about God, (Character: Moshe), “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the real questions.” ~Elie Wiesel, Night, about God, (Character: Elie and Moshe), Pages 4, 5 “I pray to the God within me that He will give me the strength to ask Him the right questions.” “And why do you pray, Moshe?” I asked him. You will find the true answers, Eliezer, only within yourself!” Because they come from the depths of the soul, and they stay there until death. “Man raises himself toward God by the questions he asks Him,” he was fond of repeating. He explained to me with great insistence that every question possessed a power that did not lie in the answer. “I don’t know why.”Īfter that day I saw him often. “I don’t know why,” I said, even more disturbed and ill at ease. Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 1
“For in the end, it is all about memory, its sources and its magnitude, and, of course, its consequences.” “To forget the dead would be akin to killing them a second time.” Some invite sorrow, others joy, some both.” “…I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny.
“It is obvious that the war which Hitler and his accomplices waged was a war not only against Jewish men, women, and children, but also against Jewish religion, Jewish culture, Jewish tradition, therefore Jewish memory.” “Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?” “Those who kept silent yesterday will remain silent tomorrow.” “In the beginning there was faith – which is childish trust – which is vain and illusion – which is dangerous.” Night Elie Wiesel Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 9.Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 8.Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 7.Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 6.Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 5.Elie Wiesel Night Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 4.Night Book Quotes And Page Numbers Chapter 3.Quotes From Night Book With Page Numbers Chapter 2.Night Book Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 1.
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