and Then I Was in Time Again
Detect & Share Quotes with Friends
The Sound and the Fury Quotes
Rate this book
Clear rating
The Sound and the Fury past
168,423 ratings, 3.86 average rating, vii,969 reviews
The Sound and the Fury Quotes Showing 1-thirty of 196
"...I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you non that you may remember time, but that y'all might forget it at present and and then for a moment and not spend all of your jiff trying to conquer it. Considering no battle is always won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to human his ain folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― The Sound and the Fury
"Clocks slay time... time is expressionless as long as it is being clicked off past little wheels; just when the clock stops does time come to life."
― The Audio and the Fury
"Some days in late August at home are similar this, the air thin and eager like this, with something in it sad and nostalgic and familiar..."
― The Sound and the Fury
"A man is the sum of his misfortunes. Ane day you'd think misfortune would get tired but then time is your misfortune"
― The Audio and the Fury
"Information technology'due south not when you realise that nix can help you - organized religion, pride, anything - it'southward when you realise that you don't need whatever aid."
― The Sound and the Fury
"She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love."
― The Sound and the Fury
"When the shadow of the sash appeared on the curtains it was between seven and eight o' clock and then I was in time again, hearing the watch. It was Gramps'southward and when Father gave it to me he said I give you lot the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it'southward rather excruciating-ly apt that yous will utilize information technology to proceeds the reducto absurdum of all homo experience which can fit your individual needs no better than information technology fitted his or his begetter's. I give it to y'all not that you may remember time, just that you might forget information technology at present so for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer information technology. Because no boxing is ever won he said. They are not fifty-fifty fought. The field simply reveals to human being his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― The Audio and the Fury
"Caddy got the box and set information technology on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was however, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed."
― The Sound and the Fury
"I'd have wasted a lot of time and trouble earlier I learned that the best mode to take all people, black or white, is to accept them for what they think they are, then leave them alone."
― The Sound and the Fury
"And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like air current, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even basic upon the lonely and inviolate sand."
― The Sound and the Fury
"Because no boxing is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to human his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools."
― The Sound and the Fury
"…I seemed to be lying neither asleep nor awake looking downwardly a long corridor of greyness half light where all stable things had go shadowy paradoxical all I had done shadows all I had felt suffered taking visible class caper and perverse mocking without relevance inherent themselves with the denial of the significance they should accept affirmed thinking I was I was non who was not was not who."
― The Sound and the Fury
"They all talked at in one case, their voices insistent and contradictory and impatient, making of unreality a possibility, then a probability, then an incontrovertible fact, as people will when their desires get words."
― The Sound and the Fury
"It's e'er the idle habits y'all acquire which you will regret. Begetter said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of footling wheels. That had no sister."
― The Audio and the Fury
"I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue..."
― The Sound and the Fury
"I could olfactory property the curves of the river beyond the dusk and I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats like pieces of broken mirror, and so beyond them lights began in the pale clear air, trembling a petty like butterflies hovering a long way off."
― The Sound and the Fury
"Considering Male parent said clocks slay time. He said time is expressionless as long equally information technology is beingness clicked off by little wheels; simply when the clock stops does time come to life."
― The Sound and the Fury
"Then Ben wailed once again, hopeless and prolonged. It was goose egg. But sound. It might have been all fourth dimension and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets."
― The Audio and the Fury
"whatsoever live man is better than any dead man only no live or expressionless human is very much amend than any other live or expressionless man"
― The Audio and the Fury
"I took out my watch and listened to information technology clicking away, not knowing information technology couldn't even lie"
― The Sound and the Fury
"Even sound seemed to fail in this air, like the air was worn out with carrying sounds so long."
― The Sound and the Fury
"In the Southward you are ashamed of being a virgin. Boys. Men. They lie well-nigh information technology. Because it means less to women, Male parent said. He said it was men invented virginity non women. Male parent said it'southward like death: only a state in which the others are left and I said, But to believe it doesn't thing and he said, That'due south what's so sad nigh anything: non only virginity and I said, Why couldn't it take been me and not her who is unvirgin and he said, That'southward why that's sad too; goose egg is even worth the changing of it..."
― The Sound and the Fury
"and i temporary and he was the saddest word of all there is cypher else in the world its not despair until time its not even time until it was"
― The Sound and the Fury
"90-nine percent talent…ninety-nine percent discipline…ninety-9 pct work. He must never be satisfied with what he does. It is never as adept equally information technology can be done. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you lot can do. Don't carp but to exist ameliorate than your contemporaries or predecessors. Endeavor to be better than yourself. An creative person is a animal driven by demons. He doesn't know why they cull him and he's usually likewise busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he volition rob, infringe, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done."
― The Sound and the Fury
Source: https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1168289-the-sound-and-the-fury
0 Response to "and Then I Was in Time Again"
Post a Comment