Saul Bellow: Trending quotes (page 4)

“I am a true adorer of life, and if I can't reach as high as the face of it, I plant my kiss somewhere lower down. Those who understand will require no further explanation.”

“She was what we used to call a suicide blonde-- dyed by her own hand.”

“People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.”

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

“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 wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery.”

“If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.”

“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, "To hell with you."”

“A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”

“I am a phoenix who runs after arsonists.”

“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything…”

“Readiness to answer all questions is the infallible sign of stupidity.”

“A writer is a reader moved to emulation.”

“In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too”

“When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.”

“We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.”

“Boredom is the conviction that you can't change… the shriek of unused capacities.”

“A man is only as good as what he loves.”

“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”

“One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.”