Men Quotes by William Faulkner

I decline to accept the end of man.

— William Faulkner

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

— William Faulkner

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

— William Faulkner

You men,' she says. 'You durn men.

— William Faulkner

Poor man. Poor mankind.

— William Faulkner

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

— William Faulkner

I draw no petty social lines. A man to me is a man, wherever I find him.

— William Faulkner

Men have been pacifists for every reason under the sun except to avoid danger and fighting.

— William Faulkner

...no man can cause more grief than the one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancesters.

— William Faulkner

Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.

— William Faulkner

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

— William Faulkner

A man never gets anywhere if facts and his ledgers don't square.

— William Faulkner

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

— William Faulkner

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men…

— William Faulkner

And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

— William Faulkner

One of the saddest things is that the only thing that a man can do for eight hours a day, day after…

— William Faulkner

All men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown…

— William Faulkner

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune

— William Faulkner

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of…

— William Faulkner

It seems impossible for a man to learn the value of money without first having to learn to waste it.

— William Faulkner

...thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound…

— William Faulkner

Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes…

— William Faulkner

Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything…

— William Faulkner

What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his…

— William Faulkner

It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like…

— William Faulkner

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and…

— William Faulkner

They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or…

— William Faulkner

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom…

— William Faulkner

I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or reward either, within the…

— William Faulkner

a fellow is more afraid of the trouble he might have than he ever is of the trouble he's already got. He'll…

— William Faulkner

I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get…

— William Faulkner

God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world…

— William Faulkner

He made the earth first and peopled it with dumb creatures, and then He created man to be His overseer on the…

— William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a…

— William Faulkner

Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There…

— William Faulkner

In the South you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie about it. Because it means less to women,…

— William Faulkner

At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach…

— William Faulkner

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

— William Faulkner

Just when do men that have different blood in them stop hating one another?

— William Faulkner

“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail.”

— William Faulkner