William Faulkner Quotes (188 Quotes)
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- Sometimes I aint so sho who's got ere a right to say when a man is crazy and when he aint. Sometimes I think it aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way. It's like it aint so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
- Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
- Bad health is the primary reason for all life. Created by disease, within putrefaction, into decay
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at. When he was born I knew that motherhood was invented by someone who had to have a word for it because the ones that had the children didn't care whether there was a word for it or not. I knew that fear was invented by someone that had never had the fear; pride, who never had the pride.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
- Like a fellow running from or toward a gun ain't got time to worry whether the word for what he is doing is courage or cowardice.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
- Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the old days, of course, we no longer succumb to the impulse. But it is still there, within us.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- That's the one trouble with this country: everything, weather, all, hangs on too long. Like our rivers, our land: opaque, slow, violent; shaping and creating the life of man in its implacable and brooding image.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
- Making or getting money is a kind of game where there are not any rules at all.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
- Did you ever have a sister? did you?
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
- The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.
(William Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying")
- My, my. A body does get around.
(William Faulkner, "Light in August")
- Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
(William Faulkner, "The Sound and the Fury")
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