40 Notable Quotes By Isaac Bashevis Singer
I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens.
I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark
Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.
In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought.
When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
What a strange power there is in clothing.
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Life is God's novel. Let him write it.
We all play chess with Fate as partner. He makes a move, we make a move. He tries to checkmate us in three moves, we try to prevent it. We know we can't win, but we're driven to give him a good fight.
As 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.
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
The wastepaper basket is the writer’s best friend.
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself
We must believe in free will. We have no choice.
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.
Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.
I don't study literature, I read it for enjoyment
Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.
If you believe in God, then He exists.
Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.
If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.
Literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself
One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom
Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him
