Quotes About Kaddish

#1. Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk on the sunny pavement of Greenwich Village. downtown Manhattan, clear winter noon, and I've been up all night, talking, talking, reading the Kaddish aloud, listening to Ray Charles blues shout blind on the phonograph

Allen Ginsberg

#2. I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

Meghan O'Rourke

#3. Judaism offered no Shivah for lost love. There was no Kaddish to say, no candle to burn...no injunction against listening to music or going to work.

Julie Orringer

#4. I still do find the prayers of the Kaddish quite moving, and I just substitute in my mind nature, although that's what the founders did in a lot of their documents, too. They substituted nature or providence for God. I think that's what I do in my head with Jewish God.

Susan Jacoby

#5. Everybody around us was weeping. Someone began to recite Kaddish, the prayer for the dead. I don't know whether, during the history of the Jewish people, men have ever before recited Kaddish for themselves.

Elie Wiesel

#6. Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish.

Leslie Fiedler

#7. I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

Griffin Dunne

#8. Sanity - a trick of agreement

Allen Ginsberg

#9. I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.

Ernest Shackleton

#10. There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not.

Ellen DeGeneres

#11. We are blind and live our blind lives out in blindness. Poets are damned but they are not blind, they see with the eyes of the angels.

William Carlos Williams

#12. I don't think I would have to run a campaign that's financed like General Motors.

John Bolton

#13. A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Lord David Cecil

#14. I didn't take the reins of my career until I was about 21, and I've been in charge since then.

Ricky Schroder

#15. I had an indie pop phase, I had just about every phase you could think of.

Caitlin Rose

#16. His face was knotted with rage. He felt like fainting but couldn't remember the proper way to fall.

Woody Allen

#17. What came is gone forever every time

Allen Ginsberg

#18. How are you managing to keep everyone from aging?" Celia asks after a while.
"Very carefully," Marco answers.

Erin Morgenstern