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

Quote by William Faulkner

Topics: Experience Quotes, Pain Quotes

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The 'Ode on...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a...

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a...

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch...

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch...

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

The scattered tea goes with the leaves and every day a sunset dies.

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing...

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or...

If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to...

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to...

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or...

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in...

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept...

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept...