Top 450 Saul Bellow Quotes (2024 Update)
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Saul Bellow Quote: “But it’s a tiresome preoccupation, self-esteem. Something has to be done to limit the number of people whose opinions can affect us.”

451. “But it’s a tiresome preoccupation, self-esteem. Something has to be done to limit the number of people whose opinions can affect us.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “You burn the house to roast the pig.”

452. “You burn the house to roast the pig.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “I will do no more to enact the peculiarities of life. This is done well enough without my special assistance.”

453. “I will do no more to enact the peculiarities of life. This is done well enough without my special assistance.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While.”

454. “In every community there is a class of people profoundly dangerous to the rest. I don’t mean the criminals. For them we have punitive sanctions. I mean the leaders. Invariably the most dangerous people seek the power. While.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

455. “Hearts quaking with cheap and feeble charity or oozing potato love have not written history.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you’re looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.”

456. “Is it faith? Or is it simply childishness, expecting to be loved for doing your bidden task? It is, if you’re looking for the psychological explanation, childish and classically depressive.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Mind you, I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.”

457. “Mind you, I’m a great admirer of our species. I stand in awe of the genius of the race. But a large part of this genius is devoted to lying and seeming what you are not.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist of suggestions. He himself is his principle work of art, in the body working in the flesh. What miracle! What triumph! Also, what a disaster! What tears are to be shed!”

458. “Nature is a deep imitator. And as man is the prince of organisms he is master of adaptations. He is the artist of suggestions. He himself is his principle work of art, in the body working in the flesh. What miracle! What triumph! Also, what a disaster! What tears are to be shed!”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, “I never see trees like that.” He told her, “No, ma’am, but don’t you wish you could?” This could be a variation on “Ye have eyes and see not,” an aesthete’s version of it.”

459. “She liked to give the example of Whistler the painter when he was taken to task by a woman who said, “I never see trees like that.” He told her, “No, ma’am, but don’t you wish you could?” This could be a variation on “Ye have eyes and see not,” an aesthete’s version of it.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?”

460. “Do you believe in transcendence downward as well as upward?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “The good are attracted by men’s perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by experience. Besides which, opposition is true friendship. So they tell me.”

461. “The good are attracted by men’s perceptions and think not for themselves. You must cleanse the gates of vision by self-knowledge, by experience. Besides which, opposition is true friendship. So they tell me.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “His taste in clothes was horrible, but he didn’t buy cheap things. He wore corduroy or velvet shirts from Clyde’s, painted neckties, striped socks.”

462. “His taste in clothes was horrible, but he didn’t buy cheap things. He wore corduroy or velvet shirts from Clyde’s, painted neckties, striped socks.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood, not to know the crazy from the sane, the wise from the fools, the young from the old or the sick from the well.”

463. “You were lucky even then to make yourself understood. And this happened over and over and over with everyone you met. You had to translate and translate, explain and explain, back and forth, and it was the punishment of hell itself not to understand or be understood, not to know the crazy from the sane, the wise from the fools, the young from the old or the sick from the well.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “My very fingertips rehearsed how they would work the keys of the trumpet, imagination’s trumpet, when I got ready to blow it at last. The peals of that brass would be heard beyond the earth, out in space itself. When that Messiah, that savior faculty the imagination was roused, finally we could look again with open eyes upon the whole shining earth.”

464. “My very fingertips rehearsed how they would work the keys of the trumpet, imagination’s trumpet, when I got ready to blow it at last. The peals of that brass would be heard beyond the earth, out in space itself. When that Messiah, that savior faculty the imagination was roused, finally we could look again with open eyes upon the whole shining earth.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “But such vexations always filled me with energy as well. And if I later became such a formidable mass of credentials it was because I put such slights to good use. I avenged myself by making progress.”

465. “But such vexations always filled me with energy as well. And if I later became such a formidable mass of credentials it was because I put such slights to good use. I avenged myself by making progress.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Slavery has never really been abolished. More people are enslaved to different things than you can shake a stick at.”

466. “Slavery has never really been abolished. More people are enslaved to different things than you can shake a stick at.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “A columnist on the Daily News said that to Ravelstein money was something you threw from the rear platform of speeding trains.”

467. “A columnist on the Daily News said that to Ravelstein money was something you threw from the rear platform of speeding trains.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Grielescu was a famous scholar, not exactly a follower of Jung – but not exactly not a Jungian. He was a hard one to place.”

468. “Grielescu was a famous scholar, not exactly a follower of Jung – but not exactly not a Jungian. He was a hard one to place.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “As a man sees, so he is.” The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.”

469. “As a man sees, so he is.” The world as it appears to you classifies your mind.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father’s.”

470. “She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father’s.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I’ll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.”

471. “She just has fixed herself on me to kill me. She can do it at long distance. One of these days I’ll be struck down by suffocation or apoplexy because of her.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “For to be fully conscious of oneself as an individual is also to be separated from all else.”

472. “For to be fully conscious of oneself as an individual is also to be separated from all else.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He was the obscure failure of an aggressive and powerful clan.”

473. “He was the obscure failure of an aggressive and powerful clan.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don’t part friends?”

474. “Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don’t part friends?”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Affable! His own son, his one and only son, could not speak his mind or ease his heart to him.”

475. “Affable! His own son, his one and only son, could not speak his mind or ease his heart to him.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Why, it was a crying matter, no fooling, to anyone who might know which side was up, that here was I trying to refuse to lead a disappointed life.”

476. “Why, it was a crying matter, no fooling, to anyone who might know which side was up, that here was I trying to refuse to lead a disappointed life.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “He meditated on his weakness.”

477. “He meditated on his weakness.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn’t believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.”

478. “Now I was too old to be a pupil, and Ravelstein didn’t believe in adult education. It was far too late for me to Platonize. And what people called culture was nothing but a fancier term for their ignorance.”

— Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow Quote: “Wait a minute, though: Sammler denied himself the privilege of the high-principled intellectual who must always be applying the purest standards and thumping the rest of his species on the head. When he tried to imagine a just social order, he could not do it. A non-corrupt society? He could not do that either. There were no revolutions that he could remember which had not been made for justice, freedom, and pure goodness. Their last state was always more nihilistic than the first.”

479. “Wait a minute, though: Sammler denied himself the privilege of the high-principled intellectual who must always be applying the purest standards and thumping the rest of his species on the head. When he tried to imagine a just social order, he could not do it. A non-corrupt society? He could not do that either. There were no revolutions that he could remember which had not been made for justice, freedom, and pure goodness. Their last state was always more nihilistic than the first.”

— Saul Bellow

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