10 William Saroyan Quotes on Time

William Saroyan quotes on time

10. I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

50. Everything begins with inhale and exhale, and never ends.

78. In the end, today is forever, yesterday is still today, and tomorrow is already today.

83. I believe that time, with its infinite understanding, will one day forgive me.

99. My work has always been the product of my time.

126. I was an old man by the time I took that walk to the Public Library in San Francisco, because the years between birth and twenty are the years in which the soul travels farthest and swiftest.

141. Boredom was the plague of my childhood. While I was at the orphanage, the boredom came from being in a place I did not wish to be. I was bored. I was bored the entire four years I was there.

142. Many friendships are swift and accidental, the result of a chance meeting, followed by a permanent separation.

147. A writer wants what he has to say to be heard again and again. He wants it to be heard after he is dead.

150. The real story can never be told. It is untellable. The real (as real) is inaccessible, being gone in time. There is no point in glancing at the past, in summoning it up, in re-examining it, except on behalf of art - that is, the meaningful-real.