70 quotes
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.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as an honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
Light in August (1932)
The past is never dead. It's not even past.
Requiem for a Nun (1951)
When people act like niggers, no matter who they are, the only thing to do is treat them like a nigger.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.
As I Lay Dying (1930)
That's a very good way to learn the craft of writing — from reading.
Faulkner in the University (1959)
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Who is he who will affirm that there must be a web of flesh and bone to hold the shape of love?
Beyond (1933)
He will need to be just a little bigger than smart, and a little braver than either.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
Save us, Christ, the poor sons of bitches.
The Mansion (1959)
Memory believes before knowing remembers.
Light in August (1932)
A man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
There is only one question: When will I be blown up?
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
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.
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
No man is himself, he is the sum of his past. There is no such thing really as was because the past is. It is a part of every man, every woman, and every moment.
Faulkner in the University (1959)
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.
Beyond (1933)
How often have Ι lain beneath rain on a strange roof thinking of home.
As I Lay Dying (1930)
You said how on that instant when Ikkemotubbe realised that he could sell the land to Grandfather, it ceased forever to have been his.
Go Down, Moses (1942)
I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.
As I Lay Dying (1930)