02c. 1927 ADIf one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
03c. 1927 ADI believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
04c. 1927 ADNight is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s darkIsaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
06c. 1927 ADYes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
07c. 1927 ADWhen I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
08c. 1927 ADWhen a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
10c. 1927 ADEvery creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
11c. 1927 ADEvery human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
12c. 1927 ADWhere do the wheels of history lead? How can you be so sure that the wheels of history won't get bogged down in blood and marrow again?Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
13c. 1927 ADAt moments when Herman fantasized about a new metaphysics, or even a new religion, he based everything on the attraction of the sexes. In the beginning was lust. The godly, as well as the human, principle is desire. Gravity, light, magnetism, thought may be aspects of the same universal longing. Suffering, emptiness, darkness are nothing more than interruptions of a cosmic orgasm that grows forever in intensity...Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
14c. 1927 ADIf you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
15c. 1927 ADBut my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to recollect it. The second I closed my eyes, I was with the dead. They did things words cannot express. They spoke madness. ("Hanka")Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
16c. 1927 ADThose who understand the complexities of human nature know that joy and pain, ugliness and beauty, love and hate, mercy and cruelty and other conflicting emotions often blend and cannot be separated from each other.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
17c. 1927 ADAs long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
18c. 1927 ADWhen a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books weren't written, man would live like the beasts, only for the day. The whole world, all human life, is one long story.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
19c. 1927 ADLife is God's Novel. Let Him write it. -Isaac Bashevis SingerIsaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
20c. 1927 ADPeople often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
21c. 1927 ADTo be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it's a strong one.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
23c. 1927 ADWhen I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I'm a grown up, they call me a writer.Isaac Bashevis Singer / quote ↗
