574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

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.

Fidelity is for phonographs.

Art – the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos – art, not politics, is the remedy.

A good man can bear to listen to another talk about himself.

Therefore we didn’t talk of genuine things.

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

It is my childish mind that thinks people are ready to give it just because you need it.

And I dreamed down at the clouds, and thought that when I was a kid I had dreamed up at them, and having dreamed at the clouds from both sides as no other generation of men has done, one should be able to accept his death very easily.

Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything.