William Faulkner Quote

We all fail to achieve our dreams of perfection, so we grade ourselves based on our splendid failure in trying to achieve the impossible.

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

William Faulkner

One can trust bad people, they never change.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

The past never dies, it is not even past.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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.

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner

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

William Faulkner