“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“...probably by that time he had learned that there were three things and no more: breathing, pleasure, darkness; and without money there… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression,… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“And that was the first time Byron remembered that he had ever thought how a man’s name, which is supposed to be… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Then I began to smell it again, like each time he returned, like the day back in the spring when I rode… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“She wasn’t too big, heroic, what they call Junoesque. It was that there was just too much of what she was for… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“It's just incredible. It just does not explain. Or perhaps that's it: they don't explain and we are not supposed to know.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“The river itself is not a hundred yards across, and pa and Vernon and Vardaman and Dewey Dell are the only things in sight… — William Faulkner Copy Share
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Luster returned, wearing a stiff new straw hat with a colored band and carrying a cloth cap. The hat seemed to isolate Luster's skull,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
It is easy enough to say that man is immortal simply because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was here,' on… — William Faulkner Copy Share
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice,… — William Faulkner Copy Share
Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the… — William Faulkner Copy Share
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share
“What modren ideas?” pap said. “I didn’t know there was but one idea about work—until it is done, it ain’t done, and when it… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was only as he put his hand on the door that he became aware of complete silence beyond it, a silence which he… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“She has no mother because fatherblood hates with love and pride, but motherblood with hate loves and cohabits.” — William Faulkner Copy Share
“Byron listened quietly, thinking to himself how people everywhere are about the same, but that it did seem that in a small town, where… — William Faulkner Copy Share
“It was too late. Maybe yesterday, while I was still a child, but not now. I knew too much, had seen too much, I… — William Faulkner Copy Share
![“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression, as the old do, to whom all the past is not a diminishing road but, instead, a huge meadow which no winter ever quite touches, divided from them now by the…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/fb8/william-faulkner-306_memory_the-very-old-men-believing-that-they-had_345813.png)
