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Quotes About Relationships

I mean you have been disappointed in love, but don't you know how many things there are to be disappointed in besides love? You are lucky to be still disappointed in love. Later it may be even more terrible.
~ Saul Bellow
Is love supposed to ruin you? It seems to me you shouldn't destroy yourself out of life for purposes of love--or what good is it?
~ Saul Bellow
Guys like you make life easy for some women.
~ Saul Bellow
In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main ones, the real soul and a pretender soul. Now! Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?' Are you with me?
~ Saul Bellow
Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
~ Saul Bellow
If love is love, it's free.
~ Saul Bellow
Everybody wants to have intimate conversations, but the smart fellows don't give out, only the fools. The smart fellows talk intimately about the fools, and examine them all over and give them advice.
~ Saul Bellow
In any true life you must go and be exposed outside the small circle that encompasses two or three heads in the same history of love.
~ Saul Bellow
don't marry suffering. Some people do. They get married to it, and sleep and eat together, just as husband and wife. If they go with joy they think it's adultery. Yes, thought Wilhelm, suffering is the only kind of life they are sure they can have, and if they quit suffering they're afraid they'll have nothing.
~ Saul Bellow
These were his friends of the business community; a man in business had to have such, and he visited and entertained but neither touched nor was touched, ever.
~ Saul Bellow
Cunado uno se vuelve contra sí mismo, tampoco los demás significan ya nada para él
~ Saul Bellow
It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.
~ Saul Bellow
The real and essential question is one of our employment by other human beings and their employment by us.
~ Saul Bellow
Every man realizes that he has to love something or somebody. He feels that he must go outward. 'If thou canst not love, what art thou?
~ Saul Bellow
But fathers are soft on daughters. Look how Dad favors Angela. He gave her ten times more. Because she reminded him of Mae West. He was always smiling at her boobs. He wasn't aware of it. Mother and I saw it.
~ Saul Bellow
Innately, the female knows how to cripple by sickening a man with guilt. It is a very special destruct, and she sends her curse to make a fellow impotent.
~ Saul Bellow
feel like a lousy impostor. The only decent thing about me is that I have loved certain people in my life.
~ Saul Bellow
Tražiti ispunjenje vlastitih težnji u drugome, u me?usobnim odnosima, ženska je igra. A muškarac koji bira od žene do žene, premda u srcu osje?a bol zbog idealizma, zbog želje za ?istom ljubavi, ušao je u žensko carstvo.
~ Saul Bellow
She has two husbands. Whose are the kids? The fellow detected her and she gave a signed confession that two of the four children were not the father's.
~ Saul Bellow
Unrequited love. Nowadays called hysterical dependency.
~ Saul Bellow
His friend, his former friend, Valentine, and his wife, his ex-wife Madeleine, had spread the rumor that his sanity had collapsed.
~ Saul Bellow
You're very sympathetic, even the young girls feel that. You'd make a good provider. But they go more for the other types.
~ Saul Bellow
It was the middle-class female solidarity, defending a nice girl from charges of calculation and viciousness. Nice girls marry for love. But should they fall out of love, they must be free to love another. No decent husband will oppose the heart.
~ Saul Bellow
Is it an easier farewell for Dad if we don't part friends?
~ Saul Bellow