William Saroyan Quotes

For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one.

Our life is a hope which is continually converting itself into memory and memory in its turn begets hope.

Death is just a continuation of life.

Even if it means oblivion, friends, I'll welcome it, because it won't be nothing. We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

You live you die and death not ends it.

The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

There is no death! Death is very much like sunset. It is only an appearance. For, when the sun sets here, it rises elsewhere. In reality, the sun never sets. Likewise, death is only an illusion, an appearance. For, what is death here is birth elsewhere. For life is endless.

Death is like the setting of the sun. The sun never sets; life never ceases. ... we think the sun sets, and it never ceases shining; we think our friends die, and they never cease living.

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

Must in death your daylight finish? My sun sets to rise again.

Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds.

What do you think has become of the young and old men? And what do you think has become of the women and children? They are alive and well somewhere, The smallest sprout shows there is really no death, And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it, And ceas'd the moment life appear'd. All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.

Did my infancy succeed another age of mine that dies before it? Was it that which I spent within my mother's womb?... And what before that life again, O God of my joy, was I anywhere or in any body?

Everybody's going through changes. No one knows what's going on. Everybody changes places, but the world still carries on.

Amidst the rush of worldly comings and goings, I observe how all endings become beginnings

That which is alive hath known death, and that which is dead can never die, for in the Circle of the Spirit life is naught and death is naught. Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten.

All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.

Jesus has made the life of his people as eternal as his own.

Do you believe in a future everlasting life? No, not in a future everlasting but in an everlasting life here. There are moments, you reach moments, and time comes to a sudden stop, and it will become eternal.