Shmuel Yosef Agnon Quotes & Sayings
15 most famous Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He was an Ukrainian writer who passed away on 17 February, 1970.
“Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.”
“But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.”
“Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.”
“The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.”
“If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.”
“At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.”
“As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.”
“I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.”
“I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.”
“Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.”
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