William Saroyan Quotes

I am truth. I was made of truth.

In the phrase ' human being,' the word 'being' is much more important than the word 'human.'

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.

Being is. Being is in-itself. Being is what it is.

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.

What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people.

We are what make up society.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Our nature is the mind. And the mind is our nature.

Relation is the essence of everything that exists.

A sanctity hangs about the sources of our being, whether physical, social, or imaginary.

To be rather than to seem.

We are more than the parts that form us.

Everybody comes from the same source. If you hate another human being, you're hating part of yourself.

Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.

Yet tell me, my brothers: if a goal for humanity is still lacking, is there not still lacking--humanity itself?

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

What thou art, that thou art.

I desire therefore I exist.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

We are what we are, wherever we are.

People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

The world is a heap of people, a sea of tiny flames.

You are what exists before all stories.