Quote

The order I found was the order of disorder

William Saroyan

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Saroyan
Age: 72 †
Born: 1908
Born: August 31
Died: 1981
Died: May 18
Dramatist
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Writer
Fresno
California
Disorder
Found
Order

More quotes by William Saroyan

Image
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.
William Saroyan
Image
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
Image
All of the sudden, he said, I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for
William Saroyan
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
We are not forced into unpleasant activities. We either allow them to come about or we encourage them to come about.
William Saroyan
Image
I believe in anything that works.
William Saroyan
Image
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
William Saroyan
Image
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
Image
I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.
William Saroyan
Image
There could be no extreme vanity in my recognition of myself, if in fact there could be any at all.
William Saroyan
Image
Encourage virtue in whatever heart it may have been driven into secrecy and sorrow by the shame and terror of the world.
William Saroyan
Image
You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.
William Saroyan
Image
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
Image
Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.
William Saroyan
Image
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.
William Saroyan
Image
Sunday is the day people go quietly mad, one way or another.
William Saroyan
Image
The whole world and every human being in it is everybody's business.
William Saroyan
Image
This is what drives a young writer out of his head, this feeling that nothing is being said.
William Saroyan