Saul Bellow Quotes

Inside your own self pity there you swim, in sinking down to drown her voice still haunts you, and only with your laughter can you win.

Depression, suffering and anger are all part of being human.

When you live as I do, you cannot indulge in jealousy. If you do, it will rip you apart.

It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

But it's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin And can't stand the company. Every fool's got a reason to feelin' sorry for himself And turn his heart to stone. Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell And I feel like I'm comin' home.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings. I think it really exists and is part of the human condition. I think in the course of your life you figure out ways to deal with that.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

I've often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

Depression is rage spread thin.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

I end up doing selfies 'cause I am so sad.

I used to be good friends with my depression, saying oh I'm so depressed, or life is terrible.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

Earlier in my life, I had a tendency toward depression.

I used to write out of angst. My writing was quite miserable, quite angry, even when it was funny. It was based on this sadness and tired emotional disdain for the world.

I have... a dark look in my eyes, I guess.

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

I get depressed when things are not right.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

I can't deal with waking up and being sad.

I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.

I have a very high frequency of anger, and a very high frequency of sadness.

I'm always sad.