In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or abou… - Saul Bellow

" "

In an age of enormities, the emotions are naturally weakened. We are continually called upon to have feelings — about genocide, for instance, or about famine or the blowing up of passenger planes — and we are all aware that we are incapable of reacting appropriately. A guilty consciousness of emotional inadequacy or impotence makes people doubt their own human weight.