Quotes
Quotes - Faulkner
I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail.
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 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.
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
People need troubleâa little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it. Artists do; I don't mean you need to live in a rat hole or gutter, but you have to learn fortitude, endurance. Only vegetables are happy.
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail.
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -William Faulkner.
The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
