The Best William Saroyan quotes

Even after you’ve won fame and fortune, every time you write you’ve got to write, there’s no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again. — William Saroyan

I see life as one life at one time, so many millions simultaneously, all over the earth. — William Saroyan

Live, for this is the time of your life. — William Saroyan

I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me. — William Saroyan

There’s a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time? — William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live–so that in that wondrous time you shall not add to the misery and sorrow of the world, but shall smile to the infinite delight and mystery of it. — William Saroyan

In the time of your life, live–so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches. — William Saroyan

My work has always been the product of my time. — William Saroyan

Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another. — William Saroyan

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good as someone else. — William Saroyan

The whole world and every human being in it is everybody’s business. — William Saroyan

Armenag Saroyan. A good man of whom the worst that anybody was willing to say, was that he was too good for this world. — William Saroyan

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us. — William Saroyan

The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited. — William Saroyan

San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. — William Saroyan

It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. — William Saroyan

Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world. — William Saroyan

The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind. — William Saroyan

Human greatness is a rather difficult thing to account for, and more often than not one is mistaken in one’s hunches about somebody one has met. — William Saroyan

Kids are always the only future the human race has. — William Saroyan

I don’t think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being. — William Saroyan

I never knew teachers are human beings like everybody else––and better too! — William Saroyan

Human memory works its own wheel, and stops where it will, entirely without reference to the last stop, and with no connection with the next. — William Saroyan

If you’re alive, you can’t be bored in San Francisco. If you’re not alive, San Francisco will bring you to life. — William Saroyan

Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful. — William Saroyan

I know you will remember this–that nothing good ever ends. If it did, there would be no people in the world–no life at all, anywhere. And the world is full of people and full of wonderful life. — William Saroyan

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living. — William Saroyan

The events of life have never fallen into the form of the short story or the form of the poem, or into any other form.Yourown consciousnessisthe only formyouneed. — William Saroyan

I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race. — William Saroyan

Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love. — William Saroyan

I love the bicycle. I always have. I can think of no sincere, decent human being, male or female, young or old, saintly or sinful, who can resist the bicycle. — William Saroyan

Of course if you like your kids, if you love them from the moment they begin, you yourself begin all over again, in them, with them, and so there is something more to the world again. — William Saroyan

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful–in everything: love, love–making, luck, luck–giving, money–making, sense–making, cancer–avoiding, clothes–wearing, car–driving, and so on. — William Saroyan

The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness. — William Saroyan