The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred. — 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 lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Life, said Samuel Butler, is like giving a concert on the violin while learning to play the instrument—that, friends, is real wisdom.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.” — 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
“You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. — 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
“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
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot!… — 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
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
One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want." "I like the way you arrange your life.… — 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… — 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
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
My face too blind, my mind too limited, my instincts too narrow. But this intensity, doesn't it mean anything? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. — 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
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
