William Faulkner Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• Sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words

  William Faulkner

  People, And Love, Sound

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

• He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  Pride, Talking, Long

  William Faulkner (1954). “The Best of Faulkner”

• ...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.

  William Faulkner

  Thinking, Two, People

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

• People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  People, Matter, Sin

  William Faulkner (1964). “As I Lay Dying”, GoodBook Classics

• One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

  William Faulkner

  Talking, People, One Day

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

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