“For knowledge of death makes us wish to extend our lives at the expense of others. And this is the root of… — 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
“With her death and the remarriage of my father, the children scattered. I was turned loose—freed, in a sense: free but also… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But what about justice?—Justice! Look who wants justice! Most of mankind has lived and died without—totally without it. People by the billions… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Since they… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Death is the black backing on the mirror that allows us to see anything at all. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“The earth is literally a mirror of thoughts. Objects themselves are embodied thoughts. Death is the dark backing that a mirror needs… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“All who live are in despair.(?) And that is the sickness unto death.(?) It is that a man refuses to be what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“He chased ruin and death even harder than he had chased women. He blew his talent and his health and reached home,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“We were friends, somehow. But in the end, somehow, he intended to be a mortal enemy. All the while that he was… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“there is a life to come – wait and see – and that in the life to come we will feel the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The physical body is an agent of the spirit and its mirror. It is an engine and a reflection of the spirit.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Suppose, then, that after the greatest , most passionate vividness and tender glory, oblivion is all were have to expect, the big… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence. — 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 Image
“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 Image
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Myself is thus and so, and will continue thus and so. And why fight it? My balance comes from instability. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
