Saul Bellow Quotes

I feel like I've dreamed half of my life that hasn't happened yet, so a lot of times I'm going along, and I do stuff, and I know that I've done it. I have deja vus more than I have regular experiences. If half of your day is a deja vu, then you start to wonder, 'What is real and what isn't?'

I think art is more glorious than life but not more real.

It's all real and it's all illusory: that's Awareness!

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Life, what is it but a dream?

Life is but a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream.

By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.

Reality is the page. Life is the word.

I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some kind of order to extract meaning from it, to bring meaning to it.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.

What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Life itself is a quotation.

We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.

In real life, the most important decision you ever make is, where does reality leave off and make-believe begin? If you make a mistake about that, you're dead. You know, you're out on the street corner. You think there's no bus coming. You step out, you're dead.

It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

The greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.

I mean I think that when you've got a big brain, when you find yourself planted in a world with a brain big enough to understand quite a lot of what you see around you, but not everything, you naturally fall to thinking about the deep mysteries. Where do we come from? Where does the world come from? Where does the universe come from?

There's so many different types of illusions; our lives are an illusion in a sense.