574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

A plan relieves you of the torment of choice.

Alternatives, and particularly desirable alternatives, grow only on imaginary trees.

How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?

Well, everybody has a history.

Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

The spirit knows that its growth is the real aim of existence.

De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive powers generated by this same impulse.

Death deserves dignity.