Saul Bellow Quotes

Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!

I study the universe. It's the second oldest profession. People have been looking up for a long time.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?

Listen! If stars are lit It means there is someone who needs it, It means someone wants them to be, That someone deems those specks of spit Magnificent!

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

To understand the stars would spoil their appearance.

Dogbert gazing at night sky No matter how bad the day is, the stars are always there. Dilbert Actually, many of them burned out years ago, but their light is just now reaching earth. DogbertThank you for shattering my comfortable misconception. DilbertIt's the miracle of science.

We say that the sun is behind the clouds, but actually it is not the sun but the city from which we view it that is behind the clouds. If we realized that the sun is never behind the clouds we might have a different attitude toward the whole thing.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

The telescope... is a conduit to the cosmos.

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in, and our judgments have dwindled down to a point.

Human beings are, necessarily, actors who...can be divided...into the sane who know they are acting and the mad who do not.

The gods are blind. And men see only what they wish" - Tyrion Lannister

Stargazing is one of the most profoundly human things one can do. But perhaps we must more frequently tear ourselves away from the mystery and beauty of the starry heavens above, and rather inspect, admire and foster the moral law within.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show. A companion with whom I was sailing one very windy but bright moonlight night, when the stars were few and faint, thought that a man could get along with them,-though he was considerably reduced in his circumstances,-that they were a kind of bread and cheese that never failed.

From there we came outside and saw the stars

I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.

Why are all reflections lovelier than what we call reality? -- not so grand or so strong, it may be, but always lovelier? Fair as is the gliding sloop on the shining sea, the wavering, trembling, unresting sail below is fairer still...All mirrors are magic mirrors. The commonest room is a room in a poem when I turn to the glass...There must be a truth involved in it, though we may but in part lay hold of the meaning.

If they [the dead] should speak, it would be found that in matters of opinion no departed person was exactly what he had passed for in life. They would realise, deep down, that they, and whole nations along with them, are not really what they seem to be-and never can be.

The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

It is still beautiful to hear the heart beat but often the shadow seems more real than the body.

I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?