Book Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

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

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

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

What nature creates has eternity in it.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

“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

“If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.”

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

Men want all women to lie down as whores and get up as virgins.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise... Because this is how life is full of surprises.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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

No doubt the world is entirely an imaginary world, but it is only once removed from the true world.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer