William Faulkner Quotes

Death and sex are the dominant reality of our day.

Is life a pregnancy? That would make death a birth.

I think at the prospect of bringing children into the world, your mortality comes very much to the forefront, absolutely.

If you haven't understood that if you are born you die, you scarcely deserve to be able to be alive.

I think that obviously, there is a perverse attraction to a fundamentally changed world or the end of the world. There is a death wish, a perverse death wish. Not just for ourselves, not just for the movie 'Death Wish,' but for the end of all human life.

I think about life and death a lot. For the longest time I thought this was it, but then I thought maybe reincarnation does exist and we will all come back. My new thought is either of these could be true, but realistically what is going to happen is when you are dead you are not going to know you are dead, so it's not the end of the world.

Some people live. Some people die.

You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

Man," he said, "I'm not afraid of graveyards. The dead are just, you know, people who wanted the same things you and I want." "What do we want?" I asked blurrily. "Aw, man, you know," he said. "We just want, well, the same things these people wanted." "What was that?" He shrugged. "To live, I guess," he said.

There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

We die, because we live.

Out of the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. There are way more dead people, and you're all gonna die and then you're gonna be dead for way longer than you're alive. Like that's mostly what you're ever gonna be. You're just dead people that didn't die yet.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

Every man must die, Jon Snow. But first he must live.

Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net.

God knows our despair. God wants His chosen people to live in peace. God loves life, cares less about death. We need to live. I want to live, I want my children to live. Everyone I know wants to live. You have to ask yourself what is more important to you, life is death. What is this world about - life or death?

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough.

Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.

There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a breaking of prison?

The world, somebody wrote, is the place we prove real by dying in it.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

We come from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life.