574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

The hour that burst the spirit’s sleep...

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what’s in it – they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

To accept too many favors from Ramona was dangerous. He might have to pay with his freedom. Of course he didn’t need that freedom now; he needed a rest. Still, after resting, he might want his freedom again. He wasn’t sure of that, either. But it was a possibility.

Anyway, it was an age of spiritual exhaustion – all the old dreams were dreamed out. I was angry; I burned like that furnace; reading more, sick with rage.

Just because your soul is being torn to pieces doesn’t mean that you stop analyzing the phenomena.

Unless you’re completely exploded, there’s always something to be grateful for.

Maybe America didn’t need art and inner miracles. It had so many outer ones. The USA was a big operation, very big. The more it, the less we.

I pretended not to understand. One of life’s hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.

You do all you can to humanize and familiarize the world, and suddenly it becomes more strange than ever. The living are not what they were, the dead die again and again, and at last for good.