Quotes from William Faulkner

Para qué le han cambiado de nombre si no es para que cambie su suerte?

Hush now, she said. I'm not going to run away. So I hushed. Caddy smelled like trees in the rain.

Only yesterday was a wilderness ordinary

La pureza es un estado negativo y por tanto contrario a la naturaleza.

I believe that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still be one more sound: that of [man's] puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

Podría haber sido que mediante una conjunción planetaria todo el tiempo y la injusticia y el dolor se hicieran oír por un instante.

Father said a man is the sum of his misfortunes. One day you'd think misfortune would get tired, but then time is your misfortune Father said.

Veía las fuerzas opuestas de su destino y de su voluntad confluir ahora velozmente, hacia una conjunción que sería irrevocable; pensó con cautela.

When I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind - and that of the minds of the ones who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

You've been running a long time, not to've got any further off than mealtime

Every writer must learn to kill his little darlings.

Meet Mrs. Bundren

Sometimes I think aint none of us pure crazy and aint none of us pure sane until the balance of us talks him that-a-way.

y que pecado y amor y miedo sólo son sonidos que las personas que nunca pecaron ni amaron ni tuvieron miedo usan para eso que nunca sintieron y no pueden sentir hasta que se olviden de las palabras.

I could have used the money real well. But it's not like they cost me any-thing except the baking. I can tell him that anybody is likely to make a miscue, but it's not all of them that can get out of it without loss, I can tell him. It's not everybody can eat their mistakes, I can tell him.

Father said it used to be a gentleman was known by his books, nowadays he is known by the ones he has not returned.

The lowly and invincible of the earth—to endure and endure and then endure, tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow.

Como tío Billy suele decir, un hombre no es tan diferente de un caballo o una mula, a fin de cuentas, salvo en que una mula o un caballo tiene un poco más de sentido común.

Then I begin to run. I run toward the back and come to the edge of the porch and stop. Then I begin to cry. I can feel where the fish was in the dust. It is cut up into pieces of not-fish now, not-blood on my hands and overalls. Then it wasn't so. It hadn't happened then. And now she is getting so far ahead I can-not catch her.

He was tough, faithful, brave and completely unreliable; he was six feet four inches tall and weighed two hundred and forty pounds and had the mentality of a child; over a year ago Father had already begun to say that at any moment now I would outgrow him.

old General Compson had gone to his fathers at last—or to whatever bivouac old soldiers of that war, blue or gray either, probably insisted on going to since probably no place would suit them for anything resembling a permanent stay —

El alcohol te enseña a confundir el fin con los medios.

La simple idea de su defección le produjo cierto regocijo, como el de un niño que decide hacer novillos.

He dont have to move very far to go nuts in the first place and so he dont have so far to come back.