# Quote — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

> 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.

- Author: [William Faulkner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner.md)
- Book: [As I Lay Dying](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/sin-and-love

## More from this book

> I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind — and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/i-can-remember.md)

> Darl is our brother, our brother Darl. Our brother Darl in a cage in Jackson where, his grimed hands lying lightly in the quiet interstices, looking out he foams.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/darl-is-our.md)

> 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 anymore than for pride or fear.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/he-had-a-word.md)