William Faulkner Berühmte Zitate
William Faulkner Zitate und Sprüche
Eine Legende. Aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt von Kurt Heinrich Hansen (1913-1987). Berlin: Verlag Volk und Welt, 1963. S. 431
Original englisch: "In time you become old, you see death then. Then you realise that nothing - nothing - nothing - not power nor glory nor wealth nor pleasure nor even freedom from pain, is as valuable as simple breathing, simply being alive even with all the regret of having to remember and the anguish of an irreparable worn-out body; merely knowing that you are alive-" - A Fable (1954)
Absalom, Absalom!
„Das Vergangene ist nicht tot; es ist nicht einmal vergangen.“
"Requiem für eine Nonne" (1951), 1. Akt, 3. Szene (Rolle: Gavin Stevens), taz.de http://www.taz.de/pt/2005/09/03/a0049.1/text.ges,1; erster Satz des Romans Kindheitsmuster (1976) von Christa Wolf (ohne Hinweis auf Faulkner)
Original engl.: "The past is never dead. It's not even past." -Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner: Zitate auf Englisch
only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow. I like to think of the world I created as being a kind of keystone in the universe; that, small as that keystone is, if it were ever taken away the universe itself would collapse.
Paris Review interview (1958)
“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end.”
Quelle: As I Lay Dying (1930)
“If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.”
Quelle: Absalom, Absalom!