William Faulkner Quotes

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

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:God belief

“I am not religious, I reckon. But peace is my heart: I know it is.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:heart religion peace

“People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:words sin

“That was when I learned that words are no good; that words dont ever fit even what they are trying to say at.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:words meaning

“It's like everything in the world for me is inside a tub full of guts, so that you wonder how there can be any room in it for anything else very important.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:world importance

“she has travelled for four weeks with the untroubled unhaste of a change of season.”

― William Faulkner, Light in August

topic:change

“Because you make so little impression, you see. You get born and you try this and you don't know why only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move...”

― William Faulkner, Absalom

topic:society

“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

topic:courage action cowardice

“Like so many cold, weak people, when faced at last by the incontrovertible disaster she exhumed from somewhere a sort of fortitude, strength.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:courage weakness

“It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:madness

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