891 Quotes by William Faulkner

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

We must be free not because we claim freedom, but because we practice it.

It's not when you realise that nothing can help you - religion, pride, anything - it's when you realise that you don't need any aid.

When folks wants a fellow, it's best to wait till they sends for him, I've found.

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten.

I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.