Quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

“You take this meat eating. Many people have to kill the animals because of your non-vegetarianism. You are responsible for the death of those animals. They are killed because you eat them. This is a sin. What a sin to kill innocent animals and eat them.”

“It is just like mans vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.”

“Kindness, Ive discovered, is everything in life.”

“Sometimes love is stronger than a mans convictions”

“The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique”

“If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.”

“When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.”

“There will be no justice as long as man will stand with a knife or with a gun and destroy those who are weaker than he is.”

“Whatever doesnt really happen is dreamed at night. It happens to one if it doesnt happen to another, tomorrow if not today, or a century hence if not next year.”

Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.

If 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.

I believe in God but people are liars. Its those people who say they are appointed by God who I dont believe in.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.

Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you dont 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 didnt want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. (Hanka)

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

When a writer tries to explain too much, hes out of time before he begins.

We have to believe in free-will. Weve got no choice.

Every 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.

Every human character appears only once in the history of human beings. And so does every event of love.