The Sound and the Fury Quotes

“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

“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:courageweakness

“It always takes a man that never made much at any thing to tell you how to run your business, though. Like these college professors without a whole pair of socks to his name, telling you how to make a million in ten years, and a woman that...”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:success

“I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.”

― William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury

topic:hell