“Not that long disease, my life, but that long convalescence, my life. The liberal-bourgeois revision, the illusion of improvement, the poison of… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“In the end you can't save your soul and life by thought. But if you think , the least of the consolation… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“It’s the hysterical individual who allows his life to be polarized by simple extreme antitheses like strength—weakness, potency—impotence, health—sickness.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. — 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
“Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“These, said Conrad, knew the world by systematic examination. To begin with the artist had only himself; he descended within himself and… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Ninety per cent of life is a nightmare, do you think I am going to get it rounded up to hundred per… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the over-examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative,… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“But can thought wake you from the dream of existence? Not if it becomes a second realm of confusion, another more complicated… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“External life being so mighty, the instruments so huge and terrible, the performances so great, the thoughts so great and threatening, you… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Oh, God,” Wilhelm prayed, “Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better… — 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
“He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate; in… — 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
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I don’t actually take much stock in the collapsing culture bit. I’m beginning to see it instead as the conduct of life… — 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
