William Faulkner Quote by Mary Karr

“I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red…

— William Faulkner

“And little he knew of the things that ink may do, how it can mark a dead man's thought for the wonder of later…

— Lord Dunsany

“Nothing haunts the world more than the words of the dead.”

— Susan Waterwyk

“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory of that…

— Joseph Conrad

“His voice just stops, exactly like when the needle is lifted from a phonograph record by the hand of someone who is not listening…

— William Faulkner

“His soul,the only fire in a frozen river,spoke up and identified the sound as the Language of the Dead.”

— Rebecca Hill

“Words have all died in the hollow of time, piling up soundlessly at the dark bottom of a volcanic lake.”

— Haruki Murakami

“You and I wear the dangerous looseness of doom and find it becoming. Life, for eternal us, is now; and now is much too…

— E.E. Cummings

“Only he whose bright lyre has sounded in shadows may, looking onward, restore his infinite praise. Only he who has eaten poppies with the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“The man could hear him playing. A formless music for the age to come. Or perhaps the last music on earth called up from…

— Cormac McCarthy

“Soundless echoes - no voice, Sadness doth keep thee at bay, Stagnation rises as ebb & flow, Nothing alters, Unless you choose to break away.”

— Truth Devour

“I've had so much time to think that my words have deserted. All that's left is the ache and frustration of being alive -…

— Vikki Wakefield