Quotes from William Faulkner

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it. That's what is so terrible. That he can bear anything, anything.

So long as the deceit ran along quiet and monotonous, all of us let ourselves be deceived, abetting it unawares or maybe through cowardice.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Marriage is long enough to have plenty of room for time behind it.

You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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.

The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.

Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

No man can cause more grief than that one clinging blindly to the vices of his ancestors.

I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone.

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

No man can write who is not first a humanitarian

Man the sum of what have you. A problem in impure properties carried tediously to an unvarying nil: stalemate of dust and desire.

Love doesn't die; the men and women do.

A man is the sum of his misfortunes.

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

Women ... to them any wedding is better than no wedding and a big wedding with a villain preferable to a small one with a saint.

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

Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

Criminal Minds, Miasma: "All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born."

It's because so much happens. Too much happens. That's it. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything. That's it.