Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That's sad too, people cannot do anything that dreadful they cannot do anything very dreadful at all they cannot even remember tomorrow what seemed dreadful today
William Faulkner
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Tomorrow
Cannot
Remember
Today
Anything
Even
People
Dreadful
Seemed
More quotes by William Faulkner
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
William Faulkner
You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
William Faulkner
We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!
William Faulkner
Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.
William Faulkner
Women do have an affinity for evil, for believing that no woman is to be trusted, but that some men are too innocent to protect themselves.
William Faulkner
He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.
William Faulkner
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.
William Faulkner
She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.
William Faulkner
The writer doesn't need economic freedom. All he needs is a pencil and some paper.
William Faulkner
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner
You men,' she says. 'You durn men.
William Faulkner
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the base of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner
They will endure. They are better than we are. Stronger than we are. Their vices are vices aped from white men or that white men and bondage have taught them: improvidence and intemperance and evasion-not laziness: evasion: of what white men had set them to, not for their aggrandizement or even comfort but his own.
William Faulkner
A man is the sum of his misfortunes.
William Faulkner
I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from.
William Faulkner
Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.
William Faulkner
It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
William Faulkner
Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.
William Faulkner
Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.
William Faulkner
What's wrong with this world is, it's not finished yet. It is not completed to that point where man can put his final signature to the job and say, It is finished. We made it, and it works.
William Faulkner
