William Faulkner quotes

You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the …You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.

Inspirational Hope Courage

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and …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.

Truth Compassion Change

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your …Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Inspirational Dreams

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose …Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Courage Poetry Pain Experience

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are …Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

Dreams Loneliness Short

The past is never dead. It's not even …The past is never dead. It's not even past.

Past Time

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

Love

In writing, you must kill all your …In writing, you must kill all your darlings.

Short Writing

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you …I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Humor

If a story is in you, it has to come …If a story is in you, it has to come out.

Short Writing

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even …You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

Women

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even …Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Knowing Memory Belief






All William Faulkner quotes


Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of …Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

Silence

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about …The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

Words

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the …Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

Life Time