Saul Bellow Quotes about Age

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...there is no old age of the soul.

Saul Bellow

Soul, Age, Aging

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

Saul Bellow

Crazy, Mad, Age

1959 Henderson The Rain King, ch.3.

I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.

Saul Bellow

Age, Realizing, Stingy

If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.

Saul Bellow

Children, School, Age

I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when you do it appears to me that I owe you a particularly grand letter. And so you end in the "warehouse of good intentions": "Can't do it now." "Then put it on hold." This is one's strategy for coping with old age, and with death--because one can't die with so many obligations in storage. Our clever species, so fertile and resourceful in denying its weaknesses.

Saul Bellow

Clever, Thinking, Age