Etgar Keret Quotes

With each of the choices that we make, we create consequences and we ourselves experience those consequences. If you harm another soul. If you cause pain or trauma in another soul, you yourself will experience that trauma.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

Troubles hurt the most when they prove self-inflicted.

He that makes his bed ill, lies there.

Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.

One is punished by the very things by which he sins.

If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

It's essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.

The injuries we do and those we suffer are seldom weighed in the same scales.

It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - ah! - there is the sting of life!

This government can't afford two drunkards. You've got to stop.

This life is a test, and we're put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.

I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.

As a person, I think you should assume the responsibilities of your actions.

Try to remember that every action you take in life will have a consequence and a reaction for other people, and that it's the same on social.

Men ought to be most annoyed by the sufferings which come from their own faults.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

I was starting to come to grips with the fact that I had created a lot of pain and suffering around me, not just within me.

If I was going to act irresponsibly, the least I could do was be responsible for it.

there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

If you drink too much, you go out and you harm to somebody, you have to suffer the consequences. Same way with health matters. You don't have the right to demand that someone else take care of you because of your habits.

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain.