Has beens Quote by William Faulkner

“There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.” quote by William Faulkner — Download Open image

“There is that might-have-been which is the single rock we cling to above the maelstrom of unbearable reality.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (4 ratings)

More by William Faulkner

“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

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

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

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

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

Image

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil,

William Faulkner

Image

And sure enough, even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

William Faulkner

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, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help a man endure by…

William Faulkner

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

Image

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

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

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

Image

Explore all 674 William Faulkner quotes

More Has beens quotes

Whatever meaning 'Annie's Song' had for me on a personal level, there was also a larger context. It could just as easily have been…

John Denver

Image

In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there will never be another just like it again. Today is the point to which all your yesterdays have been leading since the hour of your birth. It is the point from which all your tomorrows will…

Frederick Buechner

The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how…

Grace Lee Boggs

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

James A. Garfield

Image

We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what…

John Dryden

Image

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

Peter L. Bernstein

Image

And I have been very blessed, having coached some of the greatest that have ever played the game. But if I had to start…

Red Auerbach

Image

My folks tried to make a preacher of me and missed by a narrow margin… I would have made a good one if I…

Robert A. Heinlein

Image

Here's the reality. The image of a white Jesus has been used to justify enslavement, conquest, colonialism, the genocide of indigenous peoples. There are…

Tim Wise

Image

A lot of people have been saying 'The 100' reminds them of 'Lord Of The Flies,' 'Lost' and 'Battlestar Galactica,' and all of those…

Marie Avgeropoulos

Image

I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation…

Ronald Reagan

Image

During the last 17 years... I have been working at the restoration of a once exhausted hillside. Its scars are now healed over, though still visible, and this year it has provided abundant pasture, more than in any year since we have owned it. But to make it as good as it is now has taken 17 years. If I…

Wendell Berry

Browse all 17,972 Has beens quotes

Has beens Quote by William Faulkner

Related quotes

More by William Faulkner

More Has beens quotes