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
“She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
“Memory believes before knowing remembers.”
Variante: Memory believes before knowing remembers.
[Light in August]
Quelle: As I Lay Dying

“Now she hates me. I have taught her that, at least.”
Quelle: Light in August
Variante: ... the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.
Quelle: As I Lay Dying
“The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.”
Quelle: As I Lay Dying
“Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.”
Quelle: Light in August
Paris Review interview (1958)
Kontext: The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith.
“Love doesn't die; the men and women do.”
Quelle: The Wild Palms
“Between grief and nothing, I will take grief.”
Variante: Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief
Quelle: The Wild Palms
(Ch. 6) "Old Man"; p. 160
The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem] (1939)