891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Hasta me acuerdo de cómo, cuando yo era joven, creía que la muerte era un fenómeno del cuerpo; sin embargo, ahora sé que no es más que una función de la mente: una función de las mentes de quienes sufren la pérdida. Los nihilistas dicen que la muerte es el final; los funcionalistas, que el comienzo; pero en realidad no es más que un simple inquilino o familia que deja su habitación o su ciudad.

Veía las fuerzas opuestas de su destino y de su voluntad confluir ahora velozmente, hacia una conjunción que sería irrevocable; pensó con cautela.

Hello sister." Her face was like a cup of milk dashed with coffee in the sweet warm emptiness. [...] She looked like a librarian. Something among dusty shelves of ordered certitudes long divorced from reality, desiccating peacefully, as if a breath of that air which sees injustice done.

Garip şey, derdin ne olursa olsun erkekler sana dişlerini muayene ettir der, kadınlar da evlen der. Hayatında hiçbir şeyi başaramamış bir adam kalkar sana işini nasıl yöneteceğini anlatır. Bir çift çorabı olmayan üniversite profesörlerinin on yılda nasıl milyoner olunacağını ve ömründe bir koca bulamamış bir kadının aileye nasıl bakılacağını anlatmasına benzer bu.

Everybody talked about Freud when I lived in New Orleans, but I have never read him. Neither did Shakespeare. I doubt if Melville did either, and I'm sure Moby Dick didn't.(William Faulkner)

The arrow increased without motion, then in a quick swirl the trout lipped a fly beneath the surface with that sort of gigantic delicacy of an elephant picking up a peanut.

Life was created in the valleys. It blew up onto the hills on the old terrors, the old lusts, the old despairs. That's why you must walk up the hills so you can ride down.

I said You don't know what worry is. I don't know what it is. I don't know whether I am worrying or not. Whether I can or not. I don't know whether I can cry or not. I don't know whether I have tried to or not. I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

He aimed for them to stay put like a tree or a stand of corn. Because if He'd a aimed for man to be always a-moving and going somewhere else, wouldn't He put him longways on his belly, like a snake? It stands to reason He would.