It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is in my heart: I know it is.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.” — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
We will have to choose not between color nor race nor religion nor between East and West either, but simply between being… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by the word. It is every individual's individual code of… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a… — 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
