7 William Saroyan Quotes on Emotion

William Saroyan quotes on emotion

11. One day in the afternoon of the world, glum death will come and sit in you, and when you get up to walk, you will be as glum as death, but if you're lucky, this will only make the fun better and the love greater.

27. I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.

40. It is the heart of man that I am trying to imply in this work.

63. When Andranik went away... I saw that tears were in his eyes and his mouth was twisting with agony like the mouth of a small boy who is in great pain but will not let himself cry.

101. We didn't say anything because there was such an awful lot to say, and no language to say it in.

109. Their singing wasn't particularly good, but the feeling with which they sang was not bad at all.

164. I had long known that there was something about me that was either violent or frightening for some reason. In certain three-sided clothing store images I had for some years come upon myself, with shock and disbelief, regret, and shame, disappointment and despair, for I am indeed clearly violent, mad, and ugly, all because of intensity of some kind, a tension, an obsession with getting everything that there was to be got, a passion, an insanity.