black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.

William Faulkner

Related Topics

Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Accept Brave Deserve Earn Enough Fail Find Match Only She Somebody Try Twice
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Always Can Cream Do Higher Know Shoot You
I don’t want money badly enough to work for it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Badly Enough Money Want Work
The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Before Born Consequence Dead Desire Environment Eternity Heredity History Labor never Past Spun Web
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

Day Drink Eat Eight Hour Make Man One Shame Thing Work
I could smell the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, then beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a little like butterflies hovering a long way off.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beyond Broken Butterfly Could Curve Dusk Last Light Like Mirror Piece River Saw Smell Supinem Tranquil Tideflat Trembling Upon
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Book Friend Knew Loved Man Old One Read Return Young
I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Blind Individual Look Phase See Think Truth
Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people. There is no such thing as was – only is.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Avatar Condition Existence Fluid Individual Momentary No Only People Such Thing Time
It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Aid Anything Help Need Nothing Pride Religion When Realize
Whatever its symbol – cross or crescent or whatever – that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Cross Duty Human Inside Race Reminder Scent Symbol Whatever
It seems hard that a man in his need could be so flouted by a road.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Flouted Hard Man Need Road Seem
And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Even Honest Liar Lie Man Same Scare Tell Torture Truth
The most beautiful description of a woman is by understatement.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Beautiful Description Most Understand Woman
A mule will labor ten years willingly and patiently for you, for the privilege of kicking you once.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Kick Labor Mule Once Patiently Privilege Ten Willingly Year You
How false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Apply Book False Life Most Profound Turn

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes