All Saul Bellow Quotes
- The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern. Complete
- Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize.… Ashamed
- You have, like the external world, your own phenomena inside. External
- ... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing. Existing
- It is a joy to be choked with thought. Choked
- I am moneys medium. It passes through me- taxes, insurance, mortgage, child support, rent, legal fees. All this dignified blundering costs plenty. All
- Certain blood will be given for half certain reasons, as in all wars. All
- And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up. Braces
- As for types like my own, obscurely motivated by the conviction that our existence was worthless if we didn't make a turning point of it,… Age
- The fact that there are so many weak, poor and boring stories and novels written and published in America has been ascribed by our rebels… Alienated
- Writers are greatly respected. The intelligent public is wonderfully patient with them, continues to read them, and endures disappointment after disappointment, waiting to hear from… Account
- The only truly intersting side of the matter was the intimate design of the injury, the fact that it was so penetrating, custom-made exactly to… Aching
- To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy. Bear
- Our society, like decadent Rome, has turned into an amusement society, with writers chief among the court jesters Among
- Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective. Anxiety
- One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.… All
- We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals. Canned
- The stillness in art characterizes prayer, and the eye of the storm. Art
- There is simply too much to think about. Inspirational
- We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans -- convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution. America
- You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes,… Attempts
- There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by. Center
- Losing a parent is something like driving through a plate-glass window. You didn't know it was there until it shattered, and then for years to… Down
- Human character is smaller now, people don't have durable passions; they've replaced passions with excitement. Character
- Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American… Actually Place