Quotes about Existence
Your outside is just what you live in, sleep in, and has little connection with who you are and even less with what you do.
— William Faulkner
which was no abode of the dead because there was no death, not Lion and not Sam: not held fast in earth but free in earth and not in earth but of earth, myriad yet undiffused of every myriad part, leaf and twig and particle, air and sun and rain and dew and night, acorn oak and leaf and acorn again, dark and dawn and dark and dawn again in their immutable progression and, being myriad, one...
— William Faulkner
Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.
— William Faulkner
In a strange room you must empty yourself for sleep. And before you are emptied, what are you. And when you are emptied for sleep you are not. And when you are filled with sleep you never were.
— William Faulkner
This world is not his world; this life his life.
— William Faulkner
Any live man is better than any dead man.
— William Faulkner
And so I told myself to take that one. Because Father said clocks slay time. He said time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
— William Faulkner
Addie: My father said that the reason for living is getting ready to stay dead.
— William Faulkner
YaÅŸayan herhangi bir insan herhangi ölü bir insandan iyidir ama yaÅŸayan ya da ölü hiçbir insan baÅŸka bir yaÅŸayan ya da ölü insandan çok daha iyi deÄŸildir.
— William Faulkner
His manual of heaven and hell lay open before me, and I could perceive my nothingness in this scheme.
— William Golding
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.
— William James
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
— William James