"The Sound and the Fury" Quotes

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

I don't hate it he thought, panting in the cold air, the iron New England dark; I don't. I don't! I don't hate it! I don't hate it!

For I would think it a sin to have you different.

I am the shadow of the waxwing slain.

They endured.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...

So I took my needle, and with one hand I would have my revenge.

There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, The earth, and every common sight, to me did seem, Apparelled in celestial light, The glory and the freshness of a dream. It is not now as it hath been of yore;— Turn whereso-e'er I may, By night or day, The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it.