William Saroyan Men Quotations

Despise evil and un godliness but not men of un godliness or evil.

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.

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

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

A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

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.

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

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.

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

It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.

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

Yes, the idiot is indeed the good man, but only because he doesn't know any better.

I cannot see the war as historians see it. Those clever fellows study all the facts and they see the war as a large thing, one of the biggest events in the legend of the man, something general, involving multitudes.

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.

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?

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

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

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.

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.