Etgar Keret Quotes

I'm trying to let him know what I'm about to do. I'm hoping he can save me, even though I realize he can't.

The maid that loves goes out to sea upon a shattered plank, and puts her trust in miracles for safety.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

To me, nothing ever feels like a sure thing. I cling to that because it's very important you don't ever think anything is a sure thing.

Trusting the world is a risk, while not trusting it is a guarantee you'll be left with nothing.

True, trust necessarily carries with it uncertainties, but we must force ourselves to think about these uncertainties as possibilities and opportunities, not as liabilities.

Life is a free fall parachute jump. Pray all the way down and hope for a safe landing.

You're all I need and maybe some faith would do me good.

To love--to fall--is not a question. To touch--to kiss--to speak--those are questions.

I think we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.

In this world, there was nothing scarier than trusting someone. But there was also nothing more rewarding.

But I keep going on with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you to hear it, as I will hear yours too if I ever get the chance, if I meet you or if you escape, in the future or in heaven or in prison or underground, some other place. What they have in common is that they're not here. By telling you anything at all I'm at least believing in you, I believe you're there, I believe you into being. Because I'm telling you this story I will your existence. I tell, therefore you are.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

I can't help seeing 'Waste Land' as the third in a triptych with my earlier films 'Devil's Playground' and 'Blindsight,' and not least in the awe and gratitude I feel for the group of people who were courageous enough to share their stories with us - and to live lives so rich in inspiration for us all.

If there was no faith there would be no living in this world. We could not even eat hash with any safety.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.