Saul Bellow Quotes About Heart
-
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)
→ -
The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.'
→ -
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.
→ -
Only self-hatred could lead him to ruin himself because his heart was "broken.
→ -
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?
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?
→
Related Authors
-
Philip Roth Novelist -
Don DeLillo Writer -
John Dos Passos Novelist -
James Joyce Novelist -
Delmore Schwartz Poet -
Evelyn Waugh Writer -
William Faulkner Writer -
Eugenio Montale Poet -
Adam Bellow Author -
John Updike Novelist -
Joseph Conrad Author -
Vladimir Nabokov Novelist -
Allan Bloom Philosopher -
Martin Amis Novelist -
John Cheever Novelist -
Bernard Malamud Author -
Isaac Bashevis Singer Author -
Norman Mailer Novelist -
Thomas Pynchon Novelist -
Ralph Ellison Novelist