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
“I say money has no value; it's just the way you spend it.”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
“I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.”
Quelle: Light in August
“I am not one of those women who can stand things.”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
“I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
On himself and his contemporaries.
Paris Review interview (1958)
The Mansion (1959)
Quelle: Absalom, Absalom!
Kontext: Or maybe married men dont even need reasons, being as they already got wives. Or maybe it's women that dont need reasons, for the simple reason that they never heard of a reason and wouldn't recognise it face to face, since they dont function from reasons but from necessities that couldn't nobody help nohow and that dont nobody but a fool man want to help in the second place, because he dont know no better; it aint women, it's men that takes ignorance seriously, getting into a skeer [scare] over something for no more reason than that they dont happen to know what it is.
V. K. Ratliff in Ch. 6
“I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.”
Quelle: Absalom, Absalom!
“Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long.”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
Variante: 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.
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury (1929)