Famous Quotes

"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."

Isaac Bashevis Singer on Death

More quotes about Death

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."

  Martin Luther King, Jr. on Death

• "To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent."

  Buddha on Death

• "The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."

  Albert Einstein on Death

• "The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

  Mark Twain on Death

• "Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see."

  Helen Keller on Death

More quotes by Isaac Bashevis Singer

• "Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression."

• "The greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique."

• "The waste basket is the writer's best friend."

• "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

• "Life is God's novel. Let him write it."