William Faulkner Quotes

Memory is the basis of every journey.

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

Memory feeds imagination.

Memory is everything. Without it we are nothing.

Mind is memory, not intelligence.

We all remember things, it's what we remember that determines how we live.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths.

What business does memory have with time?

I think of memory as a game, that is as something one engages in with a very profound kind of "playfulness."

Memory is imagination pinned down.

A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you.

Memory. My poison, my food.

Memory, in my opinion, is a complete noodle. It hangs on the silliest things but forgets the stuff that really matters.

If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.

I believe in order to understand

The typical person has no trouble believing without knowing. What people need to realize is simply that you do not need to believe to know.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

Memory demands an image.

To believe and to understand are not diverse things, but the same things in different periods of growth.

People's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive.

Memory was such a worthless thing, really. Nothing it dealt with was attainable. It was concerned with phantom acts and feelings, with all that was uncapturable except in thought. It was without satisfaction.

Forgetting and remembering are governed by laws, but we cannot find out what they are.

Seeing is believing and believing is knowing and knowing beats unknowing and the unknown.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.