Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant… — 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
A man must have limits and cannot give in to the wild desires to be everything and everyone and everything to everyone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I… — 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
