The best quotes by the author we have brought to you
“As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn’t touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.” (Sabbath’s Theater Quotes)
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“For a pure sense of being tumultuously alive, you can’t beat the nasty side of existence.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“I do not say correct or savory. I do not say seemly or even natural. I say serious. Sensationally serious. Unspeakably serious. Solemnly, recklessly, blissfully serious.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“I understand.” Too late, but I understand. That we don’t perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“If you don’t go crazy because of your husband’s vices, you go crazy because of his virtues.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“It did not matter that the idea made no sense. Sabbath’s sixty-four years of life had long ago released him from the falsity of sense.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“It’s the Sundays that keep these couples together. As if Sundays alone could be any worse.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“Too late, but I understand. That we don’t perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that – of just that.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
“What a paradox. Well, you can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.”
Philip Roth
Sabbath’s Theater
