William Faulkner Quotes


To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. William Faulkner Places 188
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day youd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune William Faulkner Time 158
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders. William Faulkner Belief 143
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade space-ship and already quarreling about where they are going next. William Faulkner Disagreement 120
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. William Faulkner Actions 112
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. William Faulkner Love 108
Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain. William Faulkner Uncategorized 105
How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. William Faulkner Home 102
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. William Faulkner Failure 101
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner Art 100
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us. William Faulkner Authors 95
I will never lie again. William Faulkner Irony 93
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. William Faulkner Uncategorized 92
The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey. William Faulkner Reading 89
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. William Faulkner Dreams 87
If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on a Grecian Urn is worth any number of old ladies. William Faulkner Authors 84
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. William Faulkner Writers 84
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Light in August William Faulkner Nostalgia 84
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner Self improvement 81
Its not when you realise that nothing can help you religion pride anything its when you realise that you dont need any aid. William Faulkner Help 79
Maybe times are never strange to women it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. William Faulkner Men 78
The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies. William Faulkner Tea 73
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. William Faulkner Authors 71
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once. William Faulkner Patience 69
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. William Faulkner Life 69
Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still they were still. When I moved they glinted and sparkled. I hushed. William Faulkner Stars 68
I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express but since words are my talent I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better. William Faulkner Music 68
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. William Faulkner Beliefs 68
It is the man who all his life has been selfconvicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence. William Faulkner Man 67
So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous all of us let ourselves be deceived abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice... William Faulkner Liberty 67
And sure enough even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. William Faulkner Patience 66
I believe that man will not merely endure, he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul. William Faulkner Soul 66
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie. William Faulkner Lie 66
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others. William Faulkner Authors 65
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels only when the clock stops does time come to life. William Faulkner Time 63
Be scared. You cant help that. But dont be afraid. Aint nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be. William Faulkner 63
Like a fellow running from or toward a gun aint got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice. William Faulkner Courage 61
Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met. William Faulkner Writing 60
The next time you try to seduce anyone dont do it with talk with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean. William Faulkner Words 59
Dont bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner Motivational 59
It begins with a character usually and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does. William Faulkner Characters 57
A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. William Faulkner Uncategorized 56
...women will show pride and honor about almost anything except love ... William Faulkner Pride 51
The saddest thing about love Joe is that not only the love cannot last forever but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten. William Faulkner Heartbreak 50
Man will not merely endure; he will prevail. William Faulkner Uncategorized 49
One of the saddest things is, the only thing a man can do for 8 hours a day, day after day, is work. You can't eat 8 hours a day nor drink for 8 hours a day, nor make love for 8 hours. William Faulkner Work 47
I decline to accept the end of man. William Faulkner Uncategorized 47
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. William Faulkner Advice 46
Its always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister. William Faulkner Regret 46
Civilization begins with distillation William Faulkner Alcohol 46

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