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

—  Isaac Bashevis Singer

Last update Oct. 2, 2023. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything in life." by Isaac Bashevis Singer?
Isaac Bashevis Singer photo
Isaac Bashevis Singer 39
Polish-born Jewish-American author 1902–1991

Related quotes

Lisa Taddeo photo

“I apologise for everything…As a woman, I’ve apologised my whole life.”

Lisa Taddeo (1980) American writer and journalist

Source: On feeling the need to be apologetic in “Lisa Taddeo on her bestseller Three Women: 'I thought I was writing a quiet little book'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/dec/06/lisa-taddeo-interview-three-women in The Guardian (2019 Dec 6)

“Dartmouth is the place I’ve devoted my life to, so it’s very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.”

Jon Appleton (1939) American composer

Quoted in "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford", The Dartmouth, 30 September 2005 http://thedartmouth.com/2005/09/30/news/longtime/

“Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

"Sometimes", § 5
Red Bird (2008)
Context: Two or three times in my life I discovered love.
Each time it seemed to solve everything.
Each time it solved a great many things
but not everything.
Yet left me as grateful as if it had indeed, and
thoroughly, solved everything.

Amy Sedaris photo

“I’ve named everything that I’ve ever owned. Real or inanimate, I have to give it a first and last name. Everything in my apartment comes alive at night.”

Amy Sedaris (1961) American comedian

“I’ve worked very hard for everything I’ve ever had. But it’s my journey. And I don’t regret anything.”

Erika Jayne (1969) American singer, actress and television personality

Erika Girardi interview to People http://people.com/tv/rhobh-erika-girardi-painful-past-wealthy-coma/ (2018)

Philip K. Dick photo

“For Mercer everything is easy, he thought, because Mercer accepts everything. Nothing is alien to him. But what I’ve done, he thought; that’s become alien to me. In fact everything has become unnatural; I’ve become an unnatural self.”

Philip K. Dick book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

Source: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (1968), Chapter 21 (p. 230)

David Foster Wallace photo

“Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.”

David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist

Variant: Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

Paulo Coelho photo

“Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Paulo Coelho's blog entry " My thoughts on S.O.P.A. http://paulocoelhoblog.com/2012/01/20/welcome-to-pirate-my-books/", 20 Januar 2012. Retrieved 1 November 2015.
Context: As an author, I should be defending ‘intellectual property’, but I’m not. Pirates of the world, unite and pirate everything I’ve ever written!

“I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them… to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.”

Horton Foote (1916–2009) American playwright and screenwriter

Related topics