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Philip Roth Quotes

Total quotes: 9
“You cannot observe people through an ideology. Your ideology observes for you.”
— Philip Roth, A quote by Philip Roth
Tagged: Ideology, Ideas, Expectations, Prejudice
“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, The Dying Animal
Tagged: Love, Love (The Concept), Love & Relationships, self
“Stop worrying about growing old. And think about growing up.”
— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
Tagged: insults, Aging, Growing Up
“Because that is when you love somebody―when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.”
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain: A Novel
Tagged: Love, loving somebody, Love (The Concept), Love & Relationships
“But the pleasure isn't owning the person. The pleasure is this. Having another contender in the room with you. ”
— Philip Roth, The Human Stain
Tagged: Love, Ownership, Human Connection
“That’s how we know we’re alive: we’re wrong. Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and just go along for the ride.”
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral: American Trilogy (1) (Vintage International)
Tagged: First Impressions, Mistakes
“Sex is all the enchantment required. Do men find women so enchanting once the sex is taken out? Does anyone find anyone that enchanting unless they have sexual business with them? Who else are you enchanted by? Nobody.”
— Philip Roth, The Dying Animal
Tagged: Sex, Sex Is..., Philip Roth
“The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.”
— Philip Roth, The Point Is: Making Sense of Birth, Death, and Everything in Between
Tagged: Writer's Block, Creativity, Art, Writing, Hell, Works-In-Progress
“The Swede: during the war years, when I was still a grade school boy, this was a magical name in our Newark neighborhood, even to adults just a generation removed from the city's old Prince Street ghetto and not yet so flawlessly Americanized as to be bowled over by the prowess of a high school athlete.”
— Philip Roth, American Pastoral
Tagged: first lines of books, The Swede
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