Quote by Gary Shteyngart Download Open image ““Whatever you may think of Judaism, Lyuba, in the end it’s just a codified system of anxieties.”” — Gary Shteyngart ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“I don't judge or believe in any religion, I'm just learning from their divine esoteric stories.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“The more I learn, the more whatever faith I had in the system dissolves.” — Roanna Rosewood Copy Share Image
“It is a curious thing, do you know, Cranly said dispassionately, how your mind is supersaturated with the religion in which you say you… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Mine is the only view that appropriately combines the end-time messianic expectations of the Jews with Christian scripture.” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“To be honest with you, I’ve always felt a little Jewish.” “You have an aversion to shellfish and German opera?” “I was speaking in… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“One could say that my view legitimately fuses the end-time messianic expectations of all three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Islam, and Christianity!” — Eli Of Kittim Copy Share Image
“Awe rather than faith is the cardinal attitude of the religious Jew.” — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“But there’s no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it’s your thoughts that create these false beliefs.” — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“Know that whatever your culture trained you to believe, the vast majority of human beings probably do not believe. And you can choose to… — Vishen Lakhiani Copy Share Image
“These are all good things, I said. But no one knows where your country is or who you are. You don't have a familiar… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Russia tried to introduce beer as kind of the new vodka - and it's working with younger people in major cities - but you… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“There's something outrageously simple about extending yourself toward a goal the way a plant seeks the sun's rays or a gopher the crunch of… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Silence has been destroyed, but also the idea that it's important to learn how another person thinks, to enter the mind of another person.… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch. — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The fact that my sexual awakening peripherally involves Steve Guttenberg I have gradually accepted.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“The simple trill of her laugh has not declined over the years; if anything it's been buffeted by her endless sorrows and disappointments.” — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
“We know summer is the height of of being alive. We don't believe in God or the prospect of an afterlife mostly, so we… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image