Isaac Bashevis Singer Quotes

Wir Juden haben die Völker mit einem ewigen Gott belastet, und darum hassen sie uns.

If men had their way, every woman would lie down a prostitute and get up a virgin.

In Russia, there was one cure for every illness — vodka.

"..There are circumstances when you are torn away like a leaf from a tree and no power can attach you again.
The wind carries you from your roots. There's a name for it in Hebrew, but I've forgotten."

"Na-v'nad - a fugitive and a wanderer.”

“That's it."

إن الروح كالجسد يمكن أن تتلقى ضربات عديدة، ثم تتوقف عن الإحساس بالألم.

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?

"What concrete steps can I take now?" I asked the voice, and it replied: "Go to a house of prayer and pray."
"Without faith?" I countered, and the voice said: "You have more faith than you know."

Ich erinnere mich noch an Ihre Worte: „Die Welt ist ein Schlachthaus und ein Bordell.“ Damals schien mir das übertrieben, aber es ist bittere Wahrheit. Man hält Sie für einen Mystiker, aber in Wirklichkeit sind Sie durch und durch Realist. Wie dem auch sei, alles wird uns aufgezwungen, selbst die Hoffnung.

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

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

I didn't expect that anyone would be interested in my kind of writing. I was interested, and this was for me enough.

In their behaviour towards creatures, all men [are] Nazis

Si el destino de un hombre depende de la desgracia de otro, entonces no existe buena fortuna para nadie.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

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