Some people, if they didn't make it hard for themselves, might fall asleep. Saul Bellow More Quotes by Saul Bellow More Quotes From Saul Bellow I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available. Saul Bellow companysolitudeinspirational Nobody asks you to love the whole world, only to be honest, ehrlich. Don't have a loud mouth. The more you love people the more they'll mix you up. A child loves, a person respects. Respect is better than love. Saul Bellow childrenpeopleworld Unless you're completely exploded, there's always something to be grateful for. Saul Bellow showing-gratitudebe-gratefulgrateful In the history of the world many souls have been, are, and will be, and with a little reflection this is marvelous and not depressing. Many jerks are made gloomy about it, for they think quantity buries them alive. That's just crazy. Numbers are very dangerous, but the main thing about them is that they humble your pride. And that's good. Saul Bellow depressingcrazyhumble I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible. Saul Bellow love-youmaymean Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it? Saul Bellow ruinspurposeseems 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. Saul Bellow husbandsleepthinking I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses. Saul Bellow agecleverthinking Facts always are sensational. Saul Bellow sensationalfacts The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop. Saul Bellow heartbelieveblood I am something of a crank about sleep, for if I get seven and a quarter hours instead of eight I feel afflicted and drag myself around, although there's nothing really wrong with me. It's just another idea. That's how it is with my ideas; they seem to get strong while I weaken. Saul Bellow eightstrongsleep I labor, I spend, I strive, I design, I love, I cling, I uphold, I give way, I envy, I long, I scorn, I die, I hide, I want. Faster, much faster than any man could make the tally. Saul Bellow givingmenlong A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death. Saul Bellow sicksouldesire I'm afraid there's nothing we can do about the journalists; we can only hope that they will die off as the deerflies do towards the end of August. Saul Bellow journalistaugustends In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me? Saul Bellow realmenart How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? Saul Bellow groupsopinionwant The best argument is an undeniably good book. Saul Bellow argumentdefeatbook O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. Saul Bellow leading-meforgivinglord How should I know why! I didn't invent human beings, Iggy. Saul Bellow humansshouldknows The hour that burst the spirit's sleep. Saul Bellow hoursspiritsleep
