Quote

A man may say, From now on I'm going to speak the truth. But the truth hears him and runs away and hides before he's even done speaking.

Saul Bellow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Saul Bellow
Age: 89 †
Born: 1915
Born: June 10
Died: 2005
Died: April 5
Author
Essayist
Novelist
University Teacher
Writer
Solomon Bellows
Running
Away
Truth
May
Hides
Done
Hears
Even
Runs
Going
Speaking
Men
Speak

More quotes by Saul Bellow

Image
A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow
Image
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
Saul Bellow
Image
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Saul Bellow
Image
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
Saul Bellow
Image
I don't like to write from a flat, cold position. You must like what you're doing very much or like the people -- either like them or hate them. You can't be indifferent.
Saul Bellow
Image
Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
Saul Bellow
Image
A writer is a reader moved to emulation.
Saul Bellow
Image
It seems hard for the American people to believe that anything could be more exciting than the times themselves. What we read daily and view on the TV has thrust imagined forms into the shadow. We are staggeringly rich in facts, in things, and perhaps, like the nouveau riche of other ages, we want our wealth faithfully reproduced by the artist.
Saul Bellow
Image
(Socrates) said there were only two possibilities. Either the soul is immortal or, after death, things would be again as blank as they were before we were born.
Saul Bellow
Image
The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
Saul Bellow
Image
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and when I tried to suppress it it got even stronger.
Saul Bellow
Image
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
Saul Bellow
Image
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
Saul Bellow
Image
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
Saul Bellow
Image
The hour that burst the spirit's sleep.
Saul Bellow
Image
In expressing love we belong among the undeveloped countries.
Saul Bellow
Image
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
Saul Bellow
Image
There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.
Saul Bellow
Image
If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.
Saul Bellow
Image
It seems, after all that there are no nonpeculiar people.
Saul Bellow