Quote

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

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
Pure
Says
Funny
Force
Levity
Body
Ruled
Soul
Gravity
Love
Subject
Subjects

More quotes by Saul Bellow

Image
I seem to have the blind self-acceptance of the eccentric who can't conceive that his eccentricities are not clearly understood.
Saul Bellow
Image
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group?
Saul Bellow
Image
Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.
Saul Bellow
Image
You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes, or you can just say, The hell with you! I know what I'm doing. If you don't yet, it's because you haven't given me an attentive reading.
Saul Bellow
Image
If I'm out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.
Saul Bellow
Image
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
Image
I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.
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
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
Saul Bellow
Image
Well, everybody has a history.
Saul Bellow
Image
There is simply too much to think about.
Saul Bellow
Image
For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Saul Bellow
Image
An exchange occurs between man and woman. Love and thought complete each other in the human pair, and something like an exchange of souls takes place, according to the divine plan.
Saul Bellow
Image
A good novel is worth more then the best scientific study.
Saul Bellow
Image
The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Saul Bellow
Image
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
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
Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty but learn to be happy alone.
Saul Bellow
Image
The sand swallows burst out of their scupper holes in the bluffs and out over the transparent drown of the water, back again to the white, to the brown, to the black, from moving to stock-still sand waves and water-worked woods and roots that hugged and twisted in the sun.
Saul Bellow
Image
Death is the dark backing a mirror needs if we are to see anything
Saul Bellow