Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all. William Faulkner More Quotes by William Faulkner More Quotes From William Faulkner 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. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. William Faulkner wall life moving Believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. William Faulkner motivational positive inspirational I have found that the greatest help in meeting any problem with decency and self-respect and whatever courage is demanded, is to know where you yourself stand. That is, to have in words what you believe and are acting from. William Faulkner courage integrity believe Only when the clock stops does time come to life William Faulkner clock doe time 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. William Faulkner despair victory men It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work. William Faulkner work men funny ...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. William Faulkner turns profound book ...the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner ready reason long I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice. William Faulkner inability fool advice Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself. William Faulkner dream running inspirational 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. William Faulkner pillars voice men Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time. William Faulkner process life-is long It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. William Faulkner idle habit regret I knew that nobody but a luckless man could ever need a doctor in the face of a cyclone. William Faulkner cyclones doctors men Love doesn't die; the men and women do. William Faulkner men-and-women dies men I am not one of those women who can stand things. William Faulkner loneliness The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean. William Faulkner trying men mean A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid. William Faulkner love-and-honor teaching writing Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart. William Faulkner riches faces heart I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized William Faulkner pain dream reality
