“In this view the body itself, with its two arms and vertical length, was compared to the Cross, on which you knew… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I am willing without further exercise in pain to open my heart. And this needs no doctrine or theology of suffering. We… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Anyhow, I had found something out about an unknown privation, and I realized how a general love or craving, before it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And then? I fall upon the thorns of life, I bleed. And what… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“I venture to say Kierkegaard meant that truth has lost its force with us and horrible pain and evil must teach it… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
