Quote

Some days in late August at home are like this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar.

William Faulkner

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Faulkner
Age: 64 †
Born: 1897
Born: September 25
Died: 1962
Died: July 6
Author
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
New Albany
Mississippi
William Cuthbert Faulkner
William Falkner
William Cuthbert Falkner
Late
Days
Nostalgic
Home
Eager
Something
August
Like
Nostalgia
Thin
Familiar
Air

More quotes by William Faulkner

Image
No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
William Faulkner
Image
He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.
William Faulkner
Image
Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantlyall the time, is having to accept it.
William Faulkner
Image
How do our lives ravel out into the no-wind, no-sound, the weary gestures wearily recapitulant: echoes of old compulsions with no-hand on no-string: in sunset we fall into furious attitudes, dead gestures of dolls.
William Faulkner
Image
You must always know the past, for there is no real Was, there is only Is.
William Faulkner
Image
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
William Faulkner
Image
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
William Faulkner
Image
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner
Image
It used to be I thought of death as a man something like Grandfather a friend of his a kind of private and particular friend like we used to think of Grandfather's desk not to touch it not even to talk loud in the room where it was.
William Faulkner
Image
And when I think about that, I think that if nothing but being married will help a man, he's durn nigh hopeless.
William Faulkner
Image
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
William Faulkner
Image
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
William Faulkner
Image
Our freedom must be buttressed by a homogeny equally and unchallengeably free, no matter what color they are, so that all the other inimical forces everywhere -- systems political or religious or racial or national -- will not just respect us because we practice freedom, they will fear us because we do.
William Faulkner
Image
If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.
William Faulkner
Image
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
William Faulkner
Image
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
William Faulkner
Image
I don't know anything about inspiration because I don't know what inspiration is I've heard about it, but I never saw it.
William Faulkner
Image
It is assumed that anyone who makes a million dollars has a unique gift, though he might have made it off some useless gadget.
William Faulkner
Image
If you could just ravel out into time. That would be nice. It would be nice if you could just ravel out into time
William Faulkner
Image
This does not matter. This is not anything yet. It all depends on what you do with it, afterward.
William Faulkner