The best Quotes by Saul Bellow

Psychoanalysis pretends to investigate the Unconscious. The Unconscious by definition is what you are not conscious of. But the Analysts already know what's in it - they should, because they put it all in beforehand.

Psychology

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

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Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Philip Roth

Birthday Age

I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.

Philip Roth

New York City

The only obsession everyone wants: 'love.' People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you're whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You're whole, and then you're cracked open.

Philip Roth in The Dying Animal

You're gonna like Massachusetts. It's very patriotic - perfect for a fresh start.

Georgia Miller in Ginny & Georgia - Season 1 Episode 1

Massachusetts

I'm lucky to have been raised in the most beautiful place - Amherst, Massachusetts, state of my heart. I'm more patriotic to Massachusetts than to almost any place.

Uma Thurman

Massachusetts

I will work my heart out to earn the trust of the people of Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren

Massachusetts

The man in the White House is not the cause of what is broken, he is just the latest and most extreme symptom of what's gone wrong in America. A product of a rigged system that props up the rich and powerful and kicks dirt on everyone else.

Elizabeth Warren (as Senator of Massachusetts) - February 9, 2019

Massachusetts

I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career running time and time again. I made a difference. I put in place the things I wanted to do.

Mitt Romney

Massachusetts

Only a liberal senator from Massachusetts would say that a 49 percent increase in funding for education was not enough.

George W. Bush

Massachusetts

They say money can't buy happiness, but it can buy a flight to Massachusetts - and that's pretty much the same thing.

Massachusetts

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

Who's the more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows him?

Obi-Wan Kenobi in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope

Foolishness

I fear the day when the technology overlaps with our humanity. The world will only have a generation of idiots.

Albert Einstein

Foolishness Technology Generations

Even with therapy, our wounds may take a long time to heal. We can't just erase our worst impulses. But maybe we can control them.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 3 Episode 2

Psychology

Most of the narcissists are geniuses and masters of Psychology. But they are using their knowledge to eradicate, rather than to help humanity.

Psychology

After all, you still need time to just sit there and take a look around.

Astrid Lindgren

It's real, Six. You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.

Colleen Hoover in Hopeless

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Paulo Coelho

Self-Confidence Gossip & Rumors

This is the true measure of love: When we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Love

The Light failed; but the Darkness that followed was more than loss of light.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Silmarillion

Darkness

Whether you come back by page or by the big screen, Hogwarts will always be there to welcome you home.

Joanne K. Rowling

Hogwarts

The first time you fall in love, it changes you forever and no matter how hard you try, that feeling just never goes away.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Falling in love

She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Beauty Love declerations

Hope is like a shard of glass. Tread on it, and you'll end up wincing with every step. The best policy is to tweezer it out. Sure, it will hurt like billy-o and the wound will take a while to heal, but after that you can walk again.

Sebastian Fitzek in Therapy

Hope Breakup Grief & Condolence

The dead are dead, and talking won't bring them back to life.

Otfried Preußler in Krabat

There are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.

Cornelia Funke

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.

John Green in The Fault in Our Stars

Pain

"How do you spell 'love'?" - "You don't spell it... you feel it."

A.A. Milne in Winnie the Pooh

Love Valentine's Day

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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