Top 15 Itzhak Peretz Quotes

Yiddish, the language which will ever bear witness to the violence and murder inflicted on us, bear the marks of our expulsions from land to land, the language which absorbed the wails of the fathers, the laments of the generations, the poison and bitterness of history, the language whose precious jewels are the undried, uncongealed Jewish tears.

I am a rainworm, buried deep
Among the oozing, slimy things,
Yet of an eagle's nest I dream,
And eagle's wings.

If the husband sits on a chair in the Garden of Eden, his wife is his footstool.

In this world it is very dangerous to be weak.

Man has been likened to an earthen pot.... You have but to tap the pot with your finger. If it rings back full and true, all is well; there is your perfect pot. And if not—man, alas, has been likened to a broken potsherd.

The voice is on the borderline between the physical and the spiritual.

Nobody ever stubs his toe against a mountain. It's the little temptations that bring a man down.

Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.

Who tells the truth needs no fancy phrases.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity?

Rather a stone, but to be alone!

Prosperity may be found in small as in big business.

It is not only individuals—peoples too cannot live merely for themselves. The whole world must be redeemed.

We are like fish
In this vast sea.
And Satan fishes
For you and me.