574 Quotes by Saul Bellow

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

In this view the body itself, with its two arms and vertical length, was compared to the Cross, on which you knew the agony of consciousness and separate being.

The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man’s life is not a business.

He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted – must be relinquished.

But there are things you can’t consult anybody about.

There were people who believed Herzog was rather simple, that his humane feelings were childish. That he had been spared the destruction of certain sentiments as the pet goose is spared the axe.

Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That’s how you can tell it’s valuable.

We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans – convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.

It’s goodbye to reality when love sets in.