891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Sometimes i think there must be a sort of pollen of ideas floating in the air, which fertilizes similarly minds here and there which have not had direct contact.

People will pay any price for motion. They will even work for it. Look at bicycles.

Memory believes before knowing remembers.[Light in August]

So the next day we all said, “She will kill herself”; and we said it would be the best thing.

Je me rappelais que mon père avait coutume de dire que le but de la vie c'est de se préparer à rester mort très longtemps.

[B]ecause the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I never had actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated yourself.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

O que a literatura faz é o mesmo que acender um fósforo no campo no meio da noite.Um fósforo não ilumina nada, mas permite ver quanta escuridão existe ao redor.