Saul Bellow Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• It's usually the selfish people who are loved the most. They do what you deny yourself, and you love them for it. You give them your heart.

  Saul Bellow

  Selfish, Heart, People

  Saul Bellow (2001). “Collected stories”, Penguin Group USA

• 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 in the parlors of indignation the right-thinking citizen brings his heart to a boil. (p. 51)

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Mean, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

• I've discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, 'To hell with you.'

  Saul Bellow

  Love, Writing, Heart

• 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

  Passion, Heart, Voice

• One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Order, Mind

  Saul Bellow (2008). “Humboldt's Gift”, Penguin Classics

• Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Self, Broken

  Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Viking Adult

• The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.

  Saul Bellow

  Believe, Heart, Blood

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Ravelstein”, p.192, Penguin

• The terms which, in his inmost heart, each man knows. As I know mine. As all know. For that is the truth of it — that we all know, God, that we know, that we know, we know, we know.

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Men, Term

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.203, Odyssey Editions

• Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Heart, Thinking

  Saul Bellow (2016). “It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future”, p.141, Odyssey Editions

• And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?

  Saul Bellow

  Heart, Mean, Doe

• 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

  Writing, Heart, Long

• The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

  Saul Bellow

  Dream, Heart, Men

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