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Top 10 Isaac Babel Quotes (2025 Update)

Isaac Babel Quote: “If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

1. “If the world could write by itself, it would write like Tolstoy.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”

2. “No iron can stab the heart with such force as a period put just at the right place.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

3. “A well-thought-out story doesn’t need to resemble real life. Life itself tries with all its might to resemble a well-crafted story.”

— Isaac Babel

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Isaac Babel Quote: “No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”

4. “No iron can pierce the human heart as chillingly as a full stop placed at the right time.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.”

5. “The orange sky is rolling across the sky like a severed head, gentle light glimmers in the ravines among the clouds, the banners of the sunset are fluttering above our heads. The stench of yesterday’s blood and slaughtered horses drips into the evening chill.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”

6. “No iron spike can pierce a human heart as icily as a period in the right place.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.”

7. “A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist. The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm, and you can only turn it once, not twice.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!”

8. “You must know everything. The whole world will fall at your feet and grovel before you. Everybody must envy you. Do not trust people. Do not have friends. Do not lend them money. Do not give them your heart!”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight – and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?”

9. “For me the whole world is like a gigantic theater in which I am the only spectator without opera glasses. The orchestra plays the prelude to the third act, the stage is far away as in a dream, my heart swells with delight – and you want to blind me with a pair of half-ruble spectacles?”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth.”

10. “Just forget for a minute that you have spectacles on your nose and autumn in your heart. Stop being tough at your desk and stammering with timidity in the presence of people. Imagine for one second that you raise hell in public and stammer on paper. You’re a tiger, a lion, a cat. You spend a night with a Russian woman and leave her satisfied. You’re twenty five. If rings had been fastened to the earth and sky, you’d have seized them and pulled the sky down to earth.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.”

11. “We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “No one responds to the newness of new things like children.”

12. “No one responds to the newness of new things like children.”

— Isaac Babel

Isaac Babel Quote: “Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn’t a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?”

13. “Consider this: Could it be true that, in all Russian literature, there isn’t a single clear and joyous depiction of the sun?”

— Isaac Babel

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