William Saroyan World Quotations

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

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

I can't decide for you whether or not you have got to write, but if anything in the world, war, or pestilence, or famine, or private hunger, or anything, can stop you from writing, then don't write . . . because if anything can even begin to keep you from writing you aren't a writer and you'll be in a hell of a mess until you find out. If you are a writer, you'll still be in a hell of a mess, but you'll have better reasons.

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

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.

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

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.