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
“And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.”
Quelle: Light in August
“Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.”
Quelle: Light in August
“Did you ever have a sister? did you?”
Quelle: The Sound and the Fury
As quoted in "Visit to Two-Finger Typist" by Elliot Chaze in LIFE magazine (14 July 1961)
“I believe in God, God. God, I believe in God.”
Quelle: As I Lay Dying
“… how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.”
Quelle: Light in August
“We shall not kill and maybe next time we even won't.”
Quelle: Intruder in the Dust
Variante: the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat