The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — 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
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we… — 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
What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood. — 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
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The only real distinction at this dangerous moment in human history and cosmic development has nothing to do with medals and ribbons.… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the… — 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
All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting… — 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
