William Faulkner Quotes about Reality

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To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.

William Faulkner

Reality, World, Firsts

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

William Faulkner

Reality, Facts

I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

William Faulkner

Moving, Reality, Bereavement

William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck (1971). “William Faulkner, Eugene O'Neill [and] John Steinbeck”

I, the dreamer clinging yet to the dream as the patient clings to the last thin unbearable ecstatic instant of agony in order to sharpen the savor of the pain's surcease, waking into the reality, the more than reality, not to the unchanged and unaltered old time but into a time altered to fit the dream which, conjunctive with the dreamer, becomes immolated and apotheosized

William Faulkner

Dream, Pain, Reality

William Faulkner (1951). “Absalom, Absalom!”