20 Great William Faulkner Quotes | 2Quotes
William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and short story writer whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
20 William Faulkner Quotes:
William Faulkner Quotes
1. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.
― William Faulkner
2. The past is never dead. It's not even past.
― William Faulkner
3. What makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
― William Faulkner
4. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
― William Faulkner
5. Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
― William Faulkner
6. We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.
― William Faulkner
7. Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.
― William Faulkner
8. People everywhere are about the same, but ... it did seem that in a small town, where evil is harder to accomplish, where opportunities for privacy are scarcer, that people can invent more of it in other people's names. Because that was all it required: that idea, that single idle word blown from mind to mind.
― William Faulkner, Light in August
9. A gentleman can live through anything.
― William Faulkner
10. I decline to accept the end of man. 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 and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking. I refuse to accept this. 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 poets, the writers, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poets voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.
― William Faulkner
11. I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
― William Faulkner
12. The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
― William Faulkner
13. Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
― William Faulkner
14. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again.
― William Faulkner
15. The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
― William Faulkner
16. Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
― William Faulkner
17. Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
― William Faulkner
18. The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
― William Faulkner
19. She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
― William Faulkner
20. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
― William Faulkner
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