Life Quotes Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark”

“If one knew the truth how could there be freedom? If hell and paradise were in the middle of the marketplace, everyone would be a saint.”

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”

“Yes, I lay in my grave. But if you lie in a grave long enough, you get accustomed to it and you don't want to part from it. He had given me a pill of cyanide, He and his wife and their son also carried such pills. We all lived with death, and I want you to know that one can fall in love with death. Whoever has loved death cannot love anything else any more. When the liberation came and they told me to leave, I didn't want to go. I clung to the threshold like an ox being dragged to the slaughter. ("Hanka")”

“I believe in God but people are liars. It's those people who say they are appointed by God who I don't believe in.”

“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”

“Life gives us choices. You either grab on with both hands and just go for it, or you sit on the sidelines.”

“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”

“Leonard asks me if there's anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what's the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that's an easy one, my son, it's whatever you want it to be.”

“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.”