Night Fear Quotes

Yoda once said that “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering”. This shows that in the end, fear will lead to suffering because it has the power to do so. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is a memoir about Elie’s experience of the holocaust. This novel has many examples of hope and fear. However, it constantly shows many examples where fear becomes stronger and dominates more compared to hope. Although hope is very powerful, fear is more powerful than hope because it cripples a person’s mindset and creates terrible situations where hope is impossible to have.

Fear is so powerful that it can crush a person’s whole mindset. For example, Elie starts to lose hope in his religion: “Where

For example, Elie describes how horrible the train ride was by claiming, “Crammed into cattle trains by Hungarian police, they wept bitterly. We stood on the platform and wept too. the train disappeared on the horizon; it left nothing behind but it's thick, dirty smoke” (Wiesel 3). This quote shows how hard it is to have hope especially when the stench of the train was clear to everyone that they were headed for a terrible fate. It proves how hard it is to hold on to hope when there's almost no escape. Another example is when Elie was reciting his horrible experience he will never forget about: "Never shall I forget those flames which consumed my faith forever. Never shall I forget that nocturnal silence which deprived me, for all eternity, of the desire to live” (Wiesel 32). In this quote, Elie describes his experience at the concentration camp and how it has destroyed his faith. He is haunted with the memory of the flames that consumed his faith. All the fear and despair he went through left him feeling hopeless and without meaning. Fear creates many situations where it is hard to have hope and stay positive and that is shown when the prisoners are powerless to change their fate which creates a sense of hopelessness and despair that the prisoners have to overcome which makes it almost impossible to have