7 Saul Bellow Quotes on Life

Saul Bellow quotes on life

4. We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.

7. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

8. Once you had read the Psychopathology of Everyday Life, you knew that everyday life was psychopathology.

12. A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life. It tells us that for every human being there is a diversity of existences, that the single existence is itself an illusion in part, that these many existences signify something, tend to something, fulfill something; it promises us meaning, harmony, and even justice.

18. Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

19. A good American makes propaganda for whatever existence has forced him to become.

32. It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot allow themselves the privilege of ranging freely through social classes and professional specialties. A certain pride in their own experience, perhaps a sense of the property rights of others in their experience, holds them back.