All Saul Bellow Quotes
- Facts always are sensational. Facts
- You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half. Entire
- I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when… Age
- In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing.… Alive
- People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature. Among
- Also, he was smoking a cigar, and when a man is smoking a cigar, wearing a hat, he has an advantage; it is harder to… Advantage
- Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity. All
- Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is. Beauty
- A man may say, "From now on I'm going to speak the truth." But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's… Done Speaking
- But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I… Around Saying
- Strict seriousness was far more dangerous than any joke. Any
- But she's a nut, and nuts win. Inspirational
- It is wrong to turn a man (a subject) into a thing (an object). By means of spiritual dialogue, the I-It relationship becomes an I-Thou… Becomes
- I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog. Hardest
- I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available. Available
- Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more… Asks
- Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for. Always Something
- Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for… Alike
- One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. Day
- I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are… Been
- Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it? Destroy
- Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep. Asleep
- I want to tell you, don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and… Adultery
- A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him. Able
- What do women really want? They eat green salad and drink human blood. Blood