Quotes from William Faulkner

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.

We have all heard what we wanted to hear! Truth that sounds right to our ears!

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

I decline to accept the end of men... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

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.

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.

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."