Famous Philip Roth Quotes

  • It’s human to have a secret, but it’s just as human to reveal it sooner or later. – Philip Roth

    It’s human to have a secret, but it’s just as human to reveal it sooner or later.– Philip Roth

  • How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy? – Philip Roth

    How much time could you spend staring out the ocean, even if it was the ocean you’d loved since you were a boy?– Philip Roth

  • In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees – Philip Roth

    In my childhood I led the life of a sage, when I grew up I started climbing trees– Philip Roth

  • Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn’t restrain myself and spoke my mind. – Philip Roth

    Everything dictated silence and self-control but I couldn’t restrain myself and spoke my mind.– Philip Roth

  • This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you. – Philip Roth

    This is what you know about someone you have to hate: he charges you with his crime and castigates himself in you.– Philip Roth

  • A man who’s discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection. – Philip Roth

    A man who’s discontents were barely known to himself, awakening in middle age to the horror of self-reflection.– Philip Roth

  • Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized–that was the dream of his life. – Philip Roth

    Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized–that was the dream of his life.– Philip Roth

  • In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters. – Philip Roth

    In America everything goes and nothing matters, while in Europe nothing goes and everything matters.– Philip Roth

  • The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy. – Philip Roth

    The tragedy of the man not set up for tragedy-”that is every man’s tragedy.– Philip Roth

  • yEvery man’s endeavor was imbued with responsibility – Philip Roth

    yEvery man’s endeavor was imbued with responsibility– Philip Roth