William Faulkner Quotes

Some people are kind only because they dare not be otherwise.

One can trust bad people, they never change.

Always dream and aim higher than you know you can achieve.

The greatest wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight of them while pursuing them.

Those who can, act, and those who cannot, and suffer for it, write.

The saddest thing is that the only thing that can be done for eight hours a day is work.

What is considered blindness of fate is actually one's own myopia.

The past never dies, it is not even past.

Don't bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors, try to be better than yourself.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One might think that misfortune will eventually tire of striking, but then it is time that becomes our misfortune.

You cannot swim to new horizons if you do not have the courage to lose sight of the coast.

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