All Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes
- If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. Any
- Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. Any
- After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. All
- I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into… All
- Sometimes small things lead to great joys. Great
- As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in… Born
- The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All… All
- I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the… Awe
- At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of… Age
- Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the… Born
- But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem. Born
- For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes. Eye
- I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it. Father
- Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk. Cow
- When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly… According
- The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were… Beginnings
- Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through… Almost Every