110+ William Saroyan Quotes On Armenia, Creative And Poetic

William Saroyan was an Armenian-American dramatist and author. He wrote plays, novels and short stories, many of which were set in his native Fresno, California. He is best known for his play The Time of Your Life, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1940. Following is our collection on famous quotes by William Saroyan on armenia, creative, poetic.

Top 10 William Saroyan Quotes

1. 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."
2. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
3. It is simply in the nature of Armenian to study, to learn, to question, to speculate, to discover, to invent, to revise, to restore, to preserve, to make, and to give.
4. In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.
5. Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
6. I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
7. The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
8. Christmas is sights, especially the sights of Christmas reflected in the eyes of a child.
9. You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
10. Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case.

William Saroyan Short Quotes

• Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
• Remember that every man is a variation of yourself
• You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
• It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.
• A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.
• The bicycle is the noblest invention of mankind.
• If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is no longer a thief.
• What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
• Of all the things I love to taste, sweetest is the kiss of love.
• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

William Saroyan Quotes About Alive

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed. — William Saroyan

Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. — 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

Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough. — 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

Everything alive is part of each of us, and many things which do not move as we move are part of us. The sun is part of us, the earth, the sky, the stars, the rivers, and the oceans. All things are part of us, and we have come here to enjoy them and to thank God for them. — 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......San Francisco is a world to explore. It is a place where the heart can go on a delightful adventure. It is a city in which the spirit can know refreshment every day. — William Saroyan

William Saroyan Quotes About Live

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

You live and die according to what goes on in yourself, which no one else can even begin to know, not even father, mother, wife, son, or daughter. — William Saroyan

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

Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit. — William Saroyan

Cowards are nice, they're interesting, they're gentle, they wouldn't think of shooting down people in a parade from a tower. They want to live, so they can see their kids. They're very brave. — William Saroyan

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die. — William Saroyan

What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. — William Saroyan

William Saroyan Famous Quotes And Sayings

Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters. — William Saroyan

All comedians are people who really deeply consider the human experience not only a dirty trick perpetrated by a totally meaningless procedure of accidents, but an unbearable ordeal every day, which can be made tolerable only by mockery in one form or another. — William Saroyan

The writer is a spiritual anarchist, as in the depth of his soul every man is. He is discontented with everything and everybody. The writer is everybody's best friend and only true enemy-the good and great enemy. He neither walks with the multitude nor cheers with them. The writer who is a writer is a rebel who never stops — William Saroyan

Love doesn't have to be perfect. Even perfect, it is still the best thing there is, for the simple reason that it is the most common and constant truth of all, of all life, all law and order, the very thing which holds everything together, which permits everything to move along in time and be its wonderful or ordinary self. — William Saroyan

I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich. — William Saroyan

Babies who have not yet been taught to speak any language are the only race of the earth, the race of man: all the rest is pretence, what we call civilization, hatred, fear, desire for strength. — William Saroyan

What my children appear to be on the surface is no matter to me. I am fooled neither by gracious manners nor by bad manners. I am interested in what is truly beneath each kind of manners...I want my children to be people- each one separate- each one special- each one a pleasant and exciting variation of all the others — 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

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect. — William Saroyan

I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things. — William Saroyan

San Francisco itself is art, above all literary art. Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every home a poem, every dweller within immortal. That is the whole truth. — William Saroyan

I'm no Armenian. I'm an American. Well, the truth is I am both and neither. I love Armenia and I love America and I belong to both, but I am only this: an inhabitant of the earth, and so are you, whoever you are. I tried to forget Armenia but I couldn't do it. — William Saroyan

Seek goodness everywhere, and when it is found, bring it out of its hiding place and let it be free and unashamed. — William Saroyan

I don't have a name and I don't have a plot. I have the typewriter and I have white paper and I have me, and that should add up to a novel. — William Saroyan

In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so. — William Saroyan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. — 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

Whoever the kid had been, whoever had had the grand attitude, has finally heeded the admonishment of parents, teachers, governments, religions, and the law: )You just change your attitude now please, young man. — 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

There is a small area of land in Asia Minor that is called Armenia, but it is not so. It is not Armenia. It is a place. There are only Armenians, and they inhabit the earth, not Armenia, since there is no Armenia. There is no America and there is no England, and no France, and no Italy. There is only the earth. — William Saroyan

I always know a lie when I hear it, and the effect it has on me is no good at all. I go berserk just forcing myself not to go berserk, just trying to see truth in the lie, to see it in full context, and in a dimension in which it has got to be more than just a lie, possibly the profoundest kind of truth. — William Saroyan

I have an idea that most of all he is running away from love, because it's too big and too demanding. He's running away from us--from you, from me, from his sister, from himself, too. Who wants to be himself, who wants to be so little, and so captured and limited? — William Saroyan

Every man is correct in asking God why he is stuck with himself, and his rotten luck. — William Saroyan

To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book — William Saroyan

Jack Benny had style from the beginning. He stood straight and walked kind of sideways as if he were being gently shoved by a touch of genius. — William Saroyan

The best that can be said for anybody is probably that you misunderstood him favorably. — William Saroyan

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled. — William Saroyan

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself. No man's guilt is not yours, nor is any man's innocence a thing apart. — William Saroyan

Standing at the edge of our city, a man could feel that we had made this place of streets and dwellings in the stillness of the desert, and that we had done a brave thing... Or a man could feel that we had made this city in the desert and that it was a fake thing and that our lives were empty lives, and that we were the contemporaries of the jack rabbits. — William Saroyan

Nothing good ever ends. — William Saroyan

The people you hate, well, this is the question about such people: why do you hate them? — William Saroyan

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it. — William Saroyan

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

Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play. — William Saroyan

Art is what is irresistible. — William Saroyan

My work is writing, but my real work is being. — William Saroyan

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

I can't hate for long. It isn't worth it. — William Saroyan

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

What do you mean, what's the matter with him? Nothing's the matter with him, everything's the matter with him, the same as it is with everybody else. He's just fine. He gets overwhelmed now and then, and he doesn't know how to say what he feels or means, so he cries and runs off a little, trying to find out where to go, for God's sake. Where can you go? — William Saroyan

The mad also laugh, or is that what Freud and the others discovered perhaps, that only the mad laugh? — William Saroyan

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant. — William Saroyan

What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years? — 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

People are people. Don't be afraid of them. — William Saroyan

The order I found was the order of disorder — William Saroyan

I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in. — William Saroyan

There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all. — William Saroyan

We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in. — 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

Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half a man, and there will always be pain in the world, knowing this does not mean that a man shall dispair. A good man will seek to take pain out of things. A foolish man will not even notice it, except in himself, and the poor unfortunate evil man will drive pain deeper into things and spread it about wherever he goes. — William Saroyan

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

People is all everything is, all it has ever been, all it can ever be. — 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

One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater. — William Saroyan

How do you write? You write, man, you write, that's how, and you do it the way the old English walnut tree puts forth leaf and fruit every year by the thousands. . . . If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise, and most writers can use a little wising up. — William Saroyan

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something. — William Saroyan

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

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it. — William Saroyan

I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little. — William Saroyan

Every artist is in everything he creates, and indeed if the truth is told, every person is in his life, in his work, whatever his work may be, and this is visible in his face, figure, stance, movement, and totality. — William Saroyan

I saw rich beggars and poor beggars, proud beggars and humble beggars, fat beggars and thin beggars, healthy beggars and sick beggars, whole beggars and crippled beggars, wise beggars and stupid beggars. I saw amateur beggars and professional beggars. A professional beggar is a beggar who begs for a living. — William Saroyan

You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give. — 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

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

We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about. — William Saroyan

The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor. — 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

The writer who is a real writer is a rebel who never stops. — William Saroyan

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books. — William Saroyan

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

Nobody, but nobody, is going to tell me I'm not the most. I am. I was the most when everybody else was struggling bitterly to become a little. — William Saroyan

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful. — William Saroyan

I care so much about everything that I care about nothing. — William Saroyan

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful. — William Saroyan

The purpose of writing is both to keep up with life and to run ahead of it. I am little comfort to myself, although I am the only comfort I have, excepting perhaps streets, clouds, the sun, the faces and voices of kids and the aged, and similar accidents of beauty, innocence, truth and loneliness. — William Saroyan

The best thing we have is sleep, of course, and what is sleep except the putting aside of everything tentative for another interval of final and everlasting truth? Sleep isn't dying, but it is certainly keeping in tough with it. — William Saroyan

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer is gentle and kindly where another man is severe and unkind. — William Saroyan

The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not, is stale, spiritually debauched, unimaginative, unhealthy, and without faith. — William Saroyan

I believe in anything that works. — William Saroyan

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

Life Lessons by William Saroyan

1. William Saroyan taught us to never give up on our dreams and to always strive for greatness, no matter the odds.
2. He also showed us the importance of living life to the fullest, embracing our unique perspectives and cherishing the moments we have with our loved ones.
3. Finally, he demonstrated that we should never forget the power of kindness and compassion, as these qualities can help us to build meaningful relationships and make a positive impact on the world.