William Faulkner Quote

I decline to accept the end of man.… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.


Speech accepting the Nobel Prize for Literature. 10 December 1950


I decline to accept the end of man.… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among...

I decline to accept the end of man.… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among...

I decline to accept the end of man.… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among...

I decline to accept the end of man.… I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among...