William Faulkner Quotes About Sacrifice

Quotes about: Sacrifice

• I believe man will not merely endure, he will prevail...because he has a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.

  William Faulkner

  Life, Believe, Sacrifice

• He [the writer] must, teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid; and, teaching himself that, forget it forever, leaving no room in his workshop for anything but the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed - love and honor and pity and compassion and sacrifice. See Poets & Writers

  William Faulkner

  Teaching, Heart, Sacrifice

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

• The poet's, the writer's, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past. The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail.

  William Faulkner

  Hope, Writing, Heart

  Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Stockholm, 10 Dec. 1950

• Curiosity is a mistress whose slaves decline no sacrifice.

  William Faulkner

  Sacrifice, Curiosity, Mistress

  William Faulkner (2011). “Snopes: The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion”, p.969, Modern Library

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