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

“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.”

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

“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")”

“Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life.”

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”

“I never thought of clothes as having a life of their own -but they do. We all wear an outer layer to hide who we really are.”

“It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.”

“Well and good if all things change, O Lord God, provided I am rooted in You.”

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

“People who belittle people, will be LITTLE people, and will accomplish very Little”

“Tension, in the long run, is a more dangerous force than any feud known to man.”