William Saroyan Quotes

The truth has no form, you know. It's not like walking around trying to actually ask for favors and to be acknowledged, it is what it is.

In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless.

What thou art, that thou art.

Things aren't different. Things are things.

For any particular thing, ask: What is it in itself? What is its nature?

We are what we are.

That which we are, we are.

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

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

I am truth. I was made of truth.

Truth is the summit of being.

Actions are the doors and windows of being. Unless we act, we have no way of knowing what we are.

To be rather than to seem.

I am all that there is of the most real.

Existence has no personality. No question of personalities, it simply is whatsoever it is. To experience existence as it is, is to know the truth.

Beyond positive and negative, what is Reality?

The nature of the universe is the nature of things that are. Now, things that are have kinship with things that are from the beginning. Further, this nature is styled Truth; and it is the first cause of all that is true.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

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.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

You were born as the one you are.

It seems not to have been written. It is the quintessence of life. It is the basic truth.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself.

Beef is beef, you know. Beef comes, so Beef is real.