Time Quotes by William Faulkner

“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”

— William Faulkner

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

— William Faulkner

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.

— William Faulkner

“sometimes i lose faith in human nature for a time; i am assailed by doubt.”

— William Faulkner

We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.

— William Faulkner

You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.

— William Faulkner

The past isn't over. It isn't even past.

— William Faulkner

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

— William Faulkner

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

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.

— William Faulkner

“and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is nothing else in the world its not despair until…

— William Faulkner

Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing…

— William Faulkner

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

— William Faulkner

Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.

— William Faulkner

“I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a…

— William Faulkner

“the listening part is afraid that there may not be time to say it". Dewey Dell - As I Lay Dying.”

— William Faulkner

“Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels;…

— William Faulkner

“And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long…

— William Faulkner

I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble before I learned that the best way to take all people, black or…

— William Faulkner

It is as though the space between us were time: an irrevocable quality. It is as though time, no longer running straight…

— William Faulkner

The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand…

— William Faulkner

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a…

— William Faulkner

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

“There is a limit to what a child can accept, assimilate; not to what it can believe because a child can believe…

— William Faulkner

. . .in August in Mississippi there’s a few days somewhere about the middle of the month when suddenly there’s a foretaste…

— William Faulkner

“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

“...the very old men [...] believing that they had danced with her and courted her perhaps, confusing time with its mathematical progression,…

— William Faulkner

I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in…

— William Faulkner

“and the very old men--some in their brushed Confederate uniforms--on the porch and the lawn, talking of Miss Emily as if she…

— William Faulkner

...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that…

— William Faulkner

“i give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excruciating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the…

— 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

“They held the funeral on the second day, with the town coming to look at Miss Emily beneath a mass of bought…

— William Faulkner

“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

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

— William Faulkner

“Life is not interested in good and evil. Don Quixote was constantly choosing between good and evil, but then he was choosing…

— 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

“At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that — the young man or the young…

— William Faulkner

Only when the clock stops does time come to life

— William Faulkner

“Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.”

— William Faulkner