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

Quote by William Faulkner

Topics: William Faulkner Quotes

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on...

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. Believes longer than recollects, longer than knowing even wonders.

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...

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past

The past is never forgotten; it's never even past

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel...

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop...

Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop...

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

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

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in...

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...

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper,...

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the...

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail.

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one...

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.

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by...

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

I decline to accept the end of man.

I decline to accept the end of man.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.