Truth Quote by William Saroyan — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“You may tend to get cancer from the thing that makes you want to smoke so much, not from the smoking itself.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“It takes a lot of rehearsing for a man to be himself.”

“I believe there are ways whose ends are life instead of death.”

“Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.”

“What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me.”

“It's odd how we prioritize the things the things that matter to us. We choose a career or job; we choose a city or place to live. We make so many things important to us, but in all the things we factor in as we craft our futures, we make the people in our lives a commodity of, at best, secondary importance. We would take a job and give up our people rather than choose a tribe and give up the job.”

“He gave himself to them completely, with no guilt, no shame, no reservation, and in that surrender he found a quiet, shining pearl he had never known existed - himself. He was Sam. He was Sunshine. He was Peaches.”

“You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“I am a lover of truth, a worshiper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.”