Saul Bellow Quotes

A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

Saul Bellow

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• Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Experience
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.

  

  Ralph G. Neas
  • People
  • American
  • Death

• I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.

  

  D'Arcy Carden
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Girl

• Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Soul
  • Liberty
  • Equality

• I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Focus

• The human being is flesh and consciousness, body and soul; his heart is an abyss which can only be filled by that which is godly.

  

  Olivier Messiaen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Body

• I think the mythology of death really ran away with me when I was very young.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Think
  • Death
  • Me

• The thing with me is, about that - about rock and all that - years and years of crate-digging, listening to old music, you kind of start to connect the dots. And I was seeing the thread that was connecting everything together, which is pretty much the blues. And everything soul or funk kind of starts with that.

  

  D'Angelo
  • Music
  • Together
  • Soul

• I think the body is the ultimate thing. The soul and mind are part of the body. I don't think there is anything outside of that. Your physical self is who you are. Some people feel that that is reductionist, but I don't think it is. It's just true.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Mind
  • True

• Death does not exist.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Death
  • Exist
  • Does

• I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Death
  • Know
  • Hard

• And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Death
  • Red

• It is impossible to describe, or to imagine, the deep, the blissful sense of relief which the absence of the detested creature occasioned in my bosom. It did not make its appearance during the night - and thus for one night at least, since its introduction into the house, I soundly and tranquilly slept; aye, slept even with the burden of murder upon my soul!

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • House
  • Night

• Madness rides the star-wind... claws and teeth sharpened on centuries of corpses... dripping death astride a bacchanale of bats from nigh-black ruins of buried temples of Belial...

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Death
  • Black
  • Star

• Faith is something that comes out of the soul. It is not an information that is absorbed but an attitude, existing prior to the formulation of any creed.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Soul
  • Faith
  • Attitude

• I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O Great Beyond, O the keen call of thy flute! I forget, I ever forget, that I have no wings to fly, that I am bound in this spot evermore.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Distance

• It is proper that we acknowledge the overwhelming weight of international opinion against the juvenile death penalty.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Death
  • Opinion

• Today I have so much to do: I must kill memory once and for all, I must turn my soul to stone, I must learn to live again- Unless ... Summer's ardent rustling Is like a festival outside my window.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Today

• This is a letter of hate. It is for you my countrymen, I mean those men of my country who have defiled it. The men with manic fingers leading the sightless, feeble, betrayed body of my country to its death.

  

  John Osborne
  • Men
  • Country
  • Death

• If we are uncritical we shall always find what we want: we shall look for, and find, confirmations, and we shall look away from, and not see, whatever might be dangerous to our pet theories. In this way it is only too easy to obtain what appears to be overwhelming evidence in favor of a theory which, if approached critically, would have been refuted.

  

  Karl Popper
  • Pet

• The more you love, the more you crave.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• One of the things I do take some pride in is that if you had never read an article about my life, if you knew nothing about me, except that my books were being set in front of you to read, and if you were to read those books in sequence, I don't think you would say to yourself, 'Oh my God, something terrible happened to this writer in 1989.'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • God
  • Pride

• A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.

  

  Saul Bellow
  • Soul
  • Death