891 Quotes by William Faulkner

And sure enough even waiting will end...if you can just wait long enough.

I've got to feel the pencil and see the words at the end of the pencil.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

People need trouble -- a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

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

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune.

He had a word, too. love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack...

Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: It must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all