As I Lay Dying Quotes

“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

“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

“It's a comfortable thing, music is.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:music comfort

“Only her eyes seem to move. It's like they touch us, not with sight or sense, but like the stream from a hose touches you, the stream at the instant of impact as dissociated from the nozzle as though it had never been there.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:eyes sight

“Sometimes I lose faith in human nature for a time; I am assailed by doubt.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:doubt

“It was as though, so long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice, since all people are cowards and naturally prefer any kind of treachery because it has a...”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:cowardice

“The sun, an hour above the horizon, is poised like a bloody egg upon a crest of thunderheads; the light has turned copper: in the eye portentous, in the nose sulphurous, smelling of lightning.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:sun

“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

topic:home

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