891 Quotes by William Faulkner

Suicide iss just for the body,” the German said. “The body settles nothing. It iss of no importance. It iss just to be kept clean when possible.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar...

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks.

Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

Well, a man cant keep on going ashore anywhere, let alone Europe, all his life without getting ravaged now and then.”“Good God,” Monckton said. “I should hope not.

Pleasure, ecstasy, they cannot seem to bear: their escape from it is in violence, in drinking and fighting and apparently inescapable----And so why should not their religion drive them to crucifixion of themselves and one another? he thinks.

Ab figured that the chance of his recognising it would be about the same as a burglar recognising a dollar watch that happened to get caught for a minute on his vest button five years ago

People. They're really innately, inherently gentle and compassionate and kind. That's what wrings, wrenches...something. Your entrails, maybe. The member of the mob who holds up the whole ceremony for seconds or even minutes while he dislodges a family of bugs or lizards from the log he is about to put on the fire.