William Faulkner Quotes

“He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn’t need a word for that anymore than for...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:love fear words

“That's what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:love understanding

“Perhaps they were right in putting love into books . . . Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

topic:love books

“Life wasn't made to be easy on folks: they wouldn't ever have any reason to be good and die.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:life good

“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:death

“the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:death living

“I heard that my mother is dead. I wish I had time to let her die. I wish I had time to wish I had. It is because in the wild and outraged earth too soon too soon too soon. It's not that I wouldn't and will not it's that it is too soon too soon...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:death

“a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:time

“If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:time

“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:God belief

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