Quotes from Isaac Bashevis Singer

Even a hungry audience is better than a deaf audience.

She made Herman think of a stale loaf of bread put into a hot oven to be freshened up.

For in much wisdom is much grief,' Ecclesiastes said.

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

Ignorance is the root of all evil.

All her troubles were caused by her madness for clothes. She simply could not think about anything else.

Ciò che i Nazisti hanno fatto agli Ebrei, gli umani lo stanno facendo agli animali

Spesso le persone sostengono che gli umani hanno sempre mangiato animali, come se questo giustificasse la continuazione della pratica. Secondo questa logica, non dovremmo neppure impedire l'omicidio, perché anch'esso è sempre stato praticato dall'inizio dei tempi

Essere vegetariano è la mia protesta verso il comportamento collettivo. Essere vegetariano significa essere in disaccordo - in disaccordo su come va il mondo oggigiorno. Carestie, crudeltà - dobbiamo prendere una posizione contro queste cose. Il vegetarismo è la mia presa di posizione. E penso che sia una presa di posizione consistente.

Come sempre, quando mi succede qualcosa di propizio, chiesi al mio io interiore se ero finalmente felice. Ma mantenne un silenzio diplomatico. Pareva che avessi un grande talento nel soffrire, ma che nessun risultato potesse mai soddisfarmi

Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.

His stories always came to the same conclusion: everything is vanity, all philosophers are mistaken, all ideals silly and hypocritical.

A restlessness peculiar to people who turn the night into day hung in the air.

There isn't a greater pain than to be loved by a fool.

Well, dreams are all lost, Herman said to himself. Each day begins with amnesia.

Women had ruined him, but they had also showed him compassion.

My mother has a saying: 'One is none.

Ils s'embrassèrent longtemps, à pleine bouche, comme consumés par une prière silencieuse au service de l'amour.

The main thing is, the audience should be curious to know what's going to happen next.

One did not need to be a believer to see the purpose in nature, the truth of so-called teleology, so taboo in science.

reshayim, the wicked. It is the wicked who make history.

One common aim united Alexander of Macedonia and Hamilcar, Genghis Khan and Charlemagne, Chmielnitzki and Napoleon, Robespierre and Lenin.

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

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