Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

If one Hitler is dead, there are a million ready to take his place.

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

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

A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise… Because that is how life is — full of surprises.

To be a vegetarian is to disagree — to disagree with the course of things today. Starvation, world hunger, cruelty, waste, wars — we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my statement. And I think it’s a strong one.

Habría que sentir una total indiferencia hacia el hombre y el animal para conseguir ser feliz.

I know as a writer how valuable a tool is the wastebasket. Perhaps God throws away many experiments before He finds the right expression. Perhaps we are the discards — or we could be the part He keeps. This mystery is what keeps us all going, to see what happens in the next chapter.

We expected a large gathering, because it is the nature of people to forget a saint while he is alive and give him all honors at his death.

The latter was in praise of the virtuous wife, rarer than a pearl.

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.

Life is God's novel. Let him write it.

What a strange power there is in clothing.

Darwin and Karl Marx didn't reveal the secret of the world. Of all the theories about creation, the one expounded in Genesis is the most intelligent. All this talk about primordial mists or the Big Bang is a wild absurdity. If someone found a watch on an island and said it had been made by itself or that it developed through evolution, he would be considered a lunatic. But according to modern science, the universe evolved all on its own. Is the universe less complicated than a watch?