Isaac Bashevis SingerWhen a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.351Time
Isaac Bashevis SingerTo be a vegetarian is to disagree - to disagree with the course of things today... starvation, cruelty - we must make a statement against these things. Vegetarianism is my stateme… ▶374PoliticsThought
Isaac Bashevis SingerAs long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. ✨ Anim… ▶363HumanityHumorLife
Isaac Bashevis SingerPeople often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people fro… ▶354HumanityTime
Isaac Bashevis SingerChildren read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1971). A Certain Bridge: Isaac Bashevis Singer on Literature and Life355LifeReading
Isaac Bashevis SingerOur knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge. ✨ The New York Times, December 3, 1978.311Time
Isaac Bashevis SingerA story to me must have some surprise...I must have a passion to write the story.334Love
Isaac Bashevis SingerI believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.356Humanity
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhen a human being kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice.334Humanity
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhile facts never become obsolete or stale, commentaries always do. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Grace Farrell (1992). Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations, p.37, Univ. Press of… ▶346Truth
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.335Truth
Isaac Bashevis SingerThe greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …About Everything. Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com… ▶379Time
Isaac Bashevis SingerThere is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of love... In a figurative way, Yiddish is the wise and humble lang… ▶303HopeHumanityHumor
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhen a human kills an animal for food, he is neglecting his own hunger for justice. Man prays for mercy, but is unwilling to extend it to others. Why should man then expect mercy … ▶3710HumanityReading
Isaac Bashevis SingerKindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.347Life
Isaac Bashevis SingerEven in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer (1982). The collected stories… ▶282Humor
Isaac Bashevis SingerWe must believe in free will - we have no choice. ✨ Isaac Singer's Promised City. City Journal, Summer 1997.261Philosophy
Isaac Bashevis SingerNo doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer (2004). Collected Stories: Gimpel the Fool to the… ▶305Truth
Isaac Bashevis SingerThere is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very sma… ▶306PoliticsTruth
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.339Reflection
Isaac Bashevis SingerSometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer, Richard Burgin (1985). Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer, Doubleday Books3410LoveReadingTime
Isaac Bashevis SingerOriginality is not seen in single words or even in sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing.3410Thought
Isaac Bashevis SingerTwo important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything.264Humanity
Isaac Bashevis SingerWe write not only for children but also for their parents. They, too, are serious children. ✨ Stories for Children. Book by Isaac Bashevis Singer, 1984.242Reading
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhat nature creates has eternity in it. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer Talks …about Everything. Interview with Richard Burgin, www.nytimes.com. November 26, 1978.254Time
Isaac Bashevis SingerNight is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark211TimeTruth
Isaac Bashevis SingerChildren have no use for psychology. They detest sociology. They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such ob… ▶212HumanityReading
Isaac Bashevis SingerWhen you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. ✨ Interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, 3 December 1978.245Time
Isaac Bashevis SingerBut if we have people who have the power to tell a story, there will always be readers. ✨ Isaac Bashevis Singer: Conversations.268HumanityPoliticsReading
Isaac Bashevis SingerFrom borrowing one gets poorer and from work one gets richer.224Humor
