black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

William Faulkner

Related Topics

Being Click Clock Come Dead Life Little Long Stay Stop Time Wheel

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

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

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

Always Artist Behind Final Important Importantly Irrevocable Leave Man Mortal Oblivion Pass Possible Since Someday Something Through Wall
Life is a process of preparing to be dead for a long time.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Dead Life Long Prepare Process Time
The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Artist Dream Match never Perfection Start With Work
Haunted by wrong turns and roads not taken, we pursue images perceived as new but whose providence dates to the dim dramas of childhood, which are themselves but ripples of consequence echoing down the generations.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Childhood Consequence Date Drama Echo Generation Haunt Image New Perceive Pursue Ripple Road Taken Turn Wrong
Unless you’re ashamed of yourself now and then, you’re not honest
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Honest Then Unless Ashamed Yourself
If we in America have reached that point in our desperate culture when we must murder children, no matter for what reason or what color, we don’t deserve to survive, and probably won’t.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Children Color Country Culture Desperate Matter Murder Probably Reach Reason Survive
The most important thing is insight, that is to be – curious – to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Amn Curious Does Important Insight Most Muil Muse Thing Wonder
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
Don’t bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Better Bother Just Other Try Yourself
No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Agree Behaviour Being Christianity Code Follow Human Individual Mena Nature No One Word
Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Ever Kno Mean Men More Possibly Women Wor
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
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Dream End Enough IT Lose Seek Wisdom
Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Hate Least Me Now She
And sure enough, even waiting will end…if you can just wait long enough.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Enough Even Just Long Sure Wait Will
Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.
WILLIAM FAULKNER

Bem Writer Writing

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes