Elie Wiesel Answers Quotations

Sometimes I am asked if I know 'the response to Auschwitz; I answer that not only do I not know it, but that I don't even know if a tragedy of this magnitude has a response.

every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer . . .

[Moishe] explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer.... And why do you pray, Moishe?' I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

Since God is, He is to be found in the questions as well as the answers.

He explained to me with great insistence that every question posessed a power that did not lie in the answer.

Questions outlive the answers.