Saul Bellow Quotes about Life

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Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Unexpected intrusions of beauty. This is what life is.

Saul Bellow

Life, Beauty, Unexpected

Saul Bellow (1976). “Herzog”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

The best and purest human beings, from the beginning of time, have understood that life is sacred.

Saul Bellow

Life, Sacred, Understood

Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.14, Odyssey Editions

Those who have a why to live for can bear almost any how. The necessary premise is that a person is somehow more than his or her "characteristics," all the emotions, strivings, tastes, and constructions which it pleases us to call "My Life." We have grounds to hope that a Life is something more than a cloud of particles, mere facticity. Go through what is comprehensible and you conclude that only the incomprehensible gives any light.

Saul Bellow

Life, Clouds, Light