William Faulkner Quotes

Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

I have wondered about time all my life.

Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Our bodies are the time machine.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Infancy is what is eternal, and the rest, all the rest, is brevity, extreme brevity.

Christmas is the season I use to clock failure in life. It stops time, as it were, on the year - where you are in it, where you are in your travail unto the grave.

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.

Time is long but life is short.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

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

Infinity is just time on an ego trip.

Live both in the future and the past. Who does not live in the past does not live in the future.

Reason was nowhere, time was an immovable object nailed high on the wall, except where the world kept shop.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed.

Our life runs down in sending up the clock. The brook runs down in sending up our life. The sun runs down in sending up the brook. And there is something sending up the sun. It is this backward motion toward the source, Against the stream, that most we see ourselves in, The tribute of the current to the source. It is from this in nature we are from. It is most us.

Life would go out in a 'fraction of a second' (that was the phrase), but all night he had been realizing that time depends on clocks and the passage of light. There were no clocks and the light wouldn't change. Nobody really knew how long a second of pain could be. It might last a whole purgatory--or for ever.

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time. Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree. They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.

Time, for a man who has never truly felt a second of it, it not a great sacrifice

Infinity: Time on an ego trip.

Time," the Captain said, "is not what you think." He sat down next to Eddie. "Dying? Not the end of everything. We think it is. But what happens on earth is only the beginning.