Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest… — 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
“When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It was like something you have dreaded and feared and dodged for years until it seemed like all your life, then despite… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 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
That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“So never be afraid, never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion; against injustice, lying and greed.… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“There was no one for him to tell, talk to about it, about his fear and suspicion, He trusted no man nor… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil, — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
