Isaac Leib Peretz: Eternity

Isaac Leib Peretz was Yiddish language author and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on eternity.

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“Time is change, transformation, evolution. Time is eternal sprouting, blossoming, the eternal tomorrow.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Hofnung un Shrek, 1906. Alle Verk, xiii. 9.

“In the hands of the Jew, the reddest of all flags has been placed forcibly, and he has been told: "Go, go on and on, with all the liberators, with all fighters for a better tomorrow, with all destroyers of Sodoms. But never may you rest with them…. Pay everywhere the bloodiest costs of liberation, but be unnamed in all emancipation proclamations, or be rarely and scarcely mentioned."… The people cursed and blessed to be the last of the redeemed, to be eternally bleeding, the highest soaring expression of the divine in life.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

The Day, 1906. Alle Verk, xii. 319. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 18.

“To be of the eternal, you must be of the earth.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. Alle Verk, x. 19.

“Children… constitute man's eternity.”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Der Dichter, 1910. S. Liptzin. Peretz. Yivo, 1947, p. 321.

“Little houses in a row,
Down a quiet lane;
Neither doors nor windows know,
Peace and darkness reign.
Though you cannot pay the rent,
You will dwell there with the best.
Where the weary, broken, spent,
Find eternal rest!”

Isaac Leib Peretz

Sewing the Wedding Gown, 1906. Nine One-Act Plays from Yiddish. Translated by Bessie F. White, Boston, John W. Luce & Co., 1932, p. 126.