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.
Quote by William Faulkner about hell, bad luck, bad
Quotes by William Faulkner, page 2
39 quotes by William Faulkner
Also called: William Cuthbert Faulkner.
Was born on 25 sep 1897.
Died on 06 jul 1962, at 64 years old.
Died on 06 jul 1962, at 64 years old.
Origin country: United States
I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, army
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Quote by William Faulkner about opinion
It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.
Quote by William Faulkner about life, books, history
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.
Quote by William Faulkner about people, man
Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.
Quote by William Faulkner about memory
My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
Quote by William Faulkner about attitude, tools, commerce, food, experience, need
Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, tragedy, fear, things
Perhaps they were right in putting love into books... Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, books, rightness, love
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
Quote by William Faulkner about art, life, artists
The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews.
Quote by William Faulkner about literature, writers, time, artists
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
Quote by William Faulkner about wisdom, dream, end
The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
Quote by William Faulkner about earth, human imperfections
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
Quote by William Faulkner about people, man
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Quote by William Faulkner about world, suffering, man
There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
Quote by William Faulkner about opinion, events, risk, need, things, good, good luck
Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest.
Quote by William Faulkner about people
We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
Quote by William Faulkner about people, teaching
