People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Bringing people into the here-and-now. The real universe. That's the present moment. The past is no good to us. The future is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Americans must be the most sententious people in history. Far too busy to be religious, they have always felt that they sorely… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The challenge of modern freedom, or the combination of isolation and freedom which confronts you, is to make yourself up. The danger… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
And I said to myself that unless you conceive Death to be a violent guerrilla and kidnaper who snatches those you love,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Because I have become such a solitary, and not in the Aristotelian sense: not a beast, not a god. Rather, a loner… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don't mean the criminals. For them we… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings - about genocide, for… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“On Broadway it was still bright afternoon and the gassy air was almost motionless under the leaden spokes of sunlight, and sawdust footprints lay… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
The late philosopher Morris R. Cohen of CCNY was asked by a student in the metaphysics course, Professor Cohen, how do I know that… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“But now the emphasis has shifted to making it. People have surrendered their personal moral objectives to government or schools or psychologists. It’s a… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“I don't know how it all at once came to me to talk a lot, tell jokes, kick up, and suddenly have views. When… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of the struggle… — Saul Bellow Copy Share
