Quotes By Author: Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don’t 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 didn’t want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. (“Hanka”)”

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

“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.”

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”

“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.”