Death Quotes by William Faulkner

...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

— William Faulkner

Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.

— William Faulkner

“Sex and death: the front door and the back door of the world.”

— William Faulkner

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

— William Faulkner

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

— William Faulkner

“I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead…

— William Faulkner

“Most of life is just a preparation for getting ready to be dead for a very long period of time.”

— William Faulkner

“He was as calm as a god who has seen both life and death, and seen nothing of particular importance in either…

— William Faulkner

“What matters is at the end of life, when you're about to pass into oblivion, that you've at least scratched 'Kilroy was…

— William Faulkner

“...lifeless and shockingly alien in that place where dissolution itself was a seething turmoil of ejaculation tumescence conception and birth, and death…

— William Faulkner

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time…

— William Faulkner

It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private…

— William Faulkner

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it…

— William Faulkner

...if there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He…

— William Faulkner

“What sets a man writhing sleepless in bed at night is not having injured his fellow so much as having been wrong;…

— William Faulkner

“she died without regaining consciousness and without pain they say, and whatever they mean by that since it has always seemed to…

— William Faulkner

“...which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth…

— William Faulkner

It has always seemed to me that the only painless death must be that which takes the intelligence by violent surprise and…

— William Faulkner

“Doomed and knew it, accepted the doom without either seeking or fleeing it. Loved her brother despite him, loved not only him…

— William Faulkner

“It was as if the boy had already divined what his senses and intellect had not encompassed yet: that doomed wilderness whose…

— 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