Love Quotes by Saul Bellow

Each man has his own batch of poems.

— Saul Bellow

It is a joy to be choked with thought.

— Saul Bellow

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

— Saul Bellow

Love is the most potent cosmetic ...

— Saul Bellow

A man is only as good as what he loves.

— Saul Bellow

“If love is love, it's free.”

— Saul Bellow

Well, everybody has a history.

— Saul Bellow

“Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.”

— Saul Bellow

The more realistic you are the more you threaten the grounds of your own art.

— Saul Bellow

The first undressing of two lovers is a most special event.

— Saul Bellow

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love.

— Saul Bellow

“Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

“History is the history of cruelty, not love, as soft men think.”

— Saul Bellow

In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.

— Saul Bellow

... a fellow can't predict what he will pick up in the form of influence.

— Saul Bellow

You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside.

— Saul Bellow

Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love…

— Saul Bellow

One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach…

— Saul Bellow

“With his friends, an egotist. With love, lazy. With brightness, dull. With power, passive. With his own soul, evasive.”

— Saul Bellow

I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to…

— Saul Bellow

An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange…

— Saul Bellow

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides…

— Saul Bellow

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small…

— Saul Bellow

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

“Everybody pays the heart lip service, of course, but everybody is more familiar with the absence of love than with its presence…

— Saul Bellow

Towards the end of your life you have something like a pain schedule to fill out—a long schedule like a federal document,…

— Saul Bellow

“She was cuckoo about dime stores, where she bought cosmetics and pins and combs. After we locked the expensive purchases in the…

— Saul Bellow

“You think history is the history of loving hearts? You fool! Look at these millions of dead. Can you pity them, feel…

— Saul Bellow

“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is…

— Saul Bellow

“This development is possibly related to the fact that so much of "value" has been absorbed by technology itself. It is "good"…

— Saul Bellow

But there are things you can't consult anybody about.

— Saul Bellow

I’ve had all the monstrosity I want.

— Saul Bellow

There is simply too much to think about.

— Saul Bellow

It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.

— Saul Bellow

“It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.”

— Saul Bellow

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

— Saul Bellow

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.

— Saul Bellow