Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Even the worm that crawls in the Earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter your God.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Dictatorships, wars, and cruelty drive whole countries to madness. My theory is that the human species was crazy from the very first and that civilization and culture are only enhancing man’s insanity.
A Tale of Two Sisters”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Shoulders are from God, and burdens too.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories

“Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Of all the blessings bestowed on man, the greatest lies in the fact that God's face is forever hidden from him.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“A story to me means a plot where there is some surprise. Because that is how life is - full of surprises. ”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“One thing I found out then was that pity is a form of love and, actually, its highest expression.
A Tale of Two Sisters”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer, The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer

“One prays for life , life means free choice and freedom is mystery . If one knew the truth how could there be freedom”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer

“Literature can very well describe the absurd, but it should never become absurd itself.”
― Isaac Bashevis Singer