Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
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
Salvation
Suffering
Men
World
More quotes by William Faulkner
No one individual can tell the truth.
William Faulkner
It feels almost soft, like something to be caressed. Only gold feels that way.
William Faulkner
I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.
William Faulkner
The poets are almost always wrong about the facts... That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth...
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
A fellow gets to thinking. About all the sorrow and afflictions in this world how it's liable to strike anywhere, like lightning.
William Faulkner
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner
ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.
William Faulkner
It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.
William Faulkner
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
...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
William Faulkner
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.
William Faulkner
Poor man. Poor mankind.
William Faulkner
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
William Faulkner
She clung to that which had robbed her, as people do.
William Faulkner
The reason I don't like interviews is that I seem to react violently to personal questions. If the questions are about the work, I try to answer them. When they are about me, I may answer or I may not, but even if I do, if the same question is asked tomorrow, the answer may be different.
William Faulkner
Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.
William Faulkner
Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.
William Faulkner
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest
William Faulkner
In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.
William Faulkner
