Elie Wiesel's Night

Night, by Elie Wiesel, is a work of Holocaust literature, although it has a decidedly autobiographical slant. Wiesel based the book--at least in part--on his own experiences during World War II. The book has received considerable acclaim, and the author received the Nobel Prize in 1986. Here are a few quotes from Wiesel's famous novel. * "What can we expect? It's war..."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 1 * "I wanted to come back to Sighet to tell you the story of my death. So that you could prepare yourselves while there was still time. To live? I don't attach any importance to my life any more. I'm alone. No, I wanted to come back, and to warn you. And see how it is, no one will listen to me."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 1 * "The yellow star? Oh well, what of it? You don't die of it."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 1 * "A
6 * "I shall always remember that smile. From which world did it come?"
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 6 * "How could I forget that concert, given to an audience of dying and dead men!"
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 6 * "When they withdrew, next to me were two corpses, side by side, the father and the son. I was fifteen years old."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 7 * "We were all going to die here. All limits had been passed. No one had any strength left. And again the night would be long."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 7 * "I probably brought him more satisfaction than I had done during my whole childhood."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 8 * "But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!"
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 8 * "After my father's death, nothing could touch me any more."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch. 9 * "From the depths of the mirror, a corpse gazed back at me. The look in his eyes, as they stared into mine, has never left me."
- Elie Wiesel, Night, Ch.