Love Quotes Quote by William Faulkner — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I reckon if there’s ere a man or woman anywhere that He could turn it all over to and go away with His mind at rest, it would be Cora. And I reckon she would make a few changes, no matter how He was running it. And I reckon they would be for man’s good. Leastways, we would have to like them. Leastways, we might as well go on and make like we did.”

“ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crises with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.”

“The best fiction is far more true than any journalism.”

“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.”

“Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.”

“I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.”

“I love mankind, he said, "but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

“He wanted to take his love back from her so badly. The old techniques didn’t work anymore. In fact, they’d never worked. How do you stop loving someone? It was one of the world’s more brutal mysteries. The more you tried, the less it worked.”

“Limitless undying love which shines around me like a million suns it calls me on and on across the universe.”

“Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.”

“Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy.”

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”