The Yiddish mentality is not haughty. It does not take victory for granted. It does not demand and command but it muddles… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The truth is that what the great religions preached, the Yiddish-speaking people of the ghettos practiced day in and day out. They… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
To me the Yiddish language and the conduct of those who spoke it are identical. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
I have heard from my father and mother all the answers that faith in God could offer to those who doubt and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
There is a quiet humor in Yiddish and a gratitude for every day of life, every crumb of success, each encounter of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
One can find in the Yiddish tongue and in the Yiddish spirit expressions of pious joy, lust for life, longing for the… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Every body resisted (the slaughterer) in its own fashion, tried to escape and seemed to argue with the Creator to its last breath. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
There must be a way for man to attain all possible pleasures, all the powers and knowledge that nature can grant him, and still… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
“The rabbi thought he saw an expression of perplexity in the golem's eyes. It seemed to the rabbi that his eyes were asking, Who… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
It is a general rule that when the grain of truth cannot be found, men will swallow great helpings of falsehood. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behaviour towards creatures, all… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share
