William Faulkner
View AuthorThose who can, act, and those who cannot, and suffer for it, write.
William Faulkner
View AuthorThe saddest thing is that the only thing that can be done for eight hours a day is work.
William Faulkner
View AuthorWhat is considered blindness of fate is actually one's own myopia.
William Faulkner
View AuthorThe past never dies, it is not even past.
William Faulkner
View AuthorDon't bother trying to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors, try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
View AuthorA 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.
William Faulkner
View AuthorYou cannot swim to new horizons if you do not have the courage to lose sight of the coast.
William Faulkner
View AuthorWe must be free not because we claim freedom but because we practice it.
William Faulkner
View AuthorClocks kill time. Time is dead as long as it is being marked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
William Faulkner
View AuthorWe all fail to achieve our dreams of perfection, so we grade ourselves based on our splendid failure in trying to achieve the impossible.
William Faulkner
View AuthorIf I had the chance to choose between the experience of pain and nothingness, I would choose pain.
William Faulkner
View AuthorThe saddest thing about love, Joe, is not that it doesn't last forever, but that even heartbreak is soon forgotten.