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William Faulkner Quotes

Total quotes: 10
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
Tagged: Love, affection
“None of my work has met my own standards.”
— William Faulkner, William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12
Tagged: Criticisms, Self-Analysis
“Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.”
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury(Norton Critical Edition)
Tagged: Wisdom, Winning
“'I will never put on paper and release something that I do not believe is true.”
— William Faulkner, Conversations with William Faulkner
Tagged: Journalism, news publication, News, Media, Reporting
“You intend to kiss me and yet you are going to all this damn trouble about it.”
— William Faulkner, Soldiers' Pay
Tagged: Love, romance, kiss, to kiss
“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
— William Faulkner, The Mansion
Tagged: Risk Taking, risking, Courage, Bravery, Experience, Life
“You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults.”
— William Faulkner, A William Faulkner Encyclopedia
Tagged: love quotes, Classic Love Quotes, Timeless Love
“Through the fence, between the curling flower spaces, I could see them hitting.”
— William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury: The Corrected Text
Tagged: first lines of books
“Long before the first bugles sounded from the barracks within the city and the cantonments surrounding it, most of the people in the city were already awake.”
— William Faulkner, A Fable
Tagged: first lines of books
“From a little after two oclock until almost sundown of the long still hot weary dead September afternoon they sat in what Miss Coldfield still called the office because her father had called it that—a dim hot airless room with the blinds all closed and fastened for forty-three summers because when she was a girl someone had believed that light and moving air carried heat and that dark was always cooler, and which (as the sun shone fuller and fuller on that side of the house) became latticed with yellow slashes full of dust motes which Quentin thought of as being flecks of the dead old dried paint itself blown inward from the scaling blinds as wind might have blown them.”
— William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom!
Tagged: first lines of books, Longest Sentence Ever
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