The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off. — Walker Percy Accounted Copy Share Image
“At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.” — Walker Percy Ghosts Copy Share Image
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Why has the South produced so many good writers? Because we got beat. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Ignorance, if recognized, is often more fruitful than the appearance of knowledge. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense. — Walker Percy Hell Copy Share Image
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life? — Walker Percy Life Copy Share Image
In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. — Walker Percy Christian inspirational Copy Share Image
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond… — Walker Percy Black hole Copy Share Image
“...the self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.” — Walker Percy Identity Copy Share Image
“At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self… — Walker Percy Identity Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the… — Walker Percy Hero Copy Share Image
“In my new freedom I remember thinking: If one knows what he wants to do, others will not only not stand in… — Walker Percy Curiosity Copy Share Image
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. — Walker Percy America Copy Share Image
The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware… — Walker Percy Despair Copy Share Image
“Christ should leave us. He is too much with us and I don’t like his friends. We have no hope of recovering… — Walker Percy Christ Copy Share Image
It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“The drowsiness returns. It is unwelcome. I recognize it as the sort of fitful twilight which has come over me of late,… — Walker Percy Dreams Copy Share Image
Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a… — Walker Percy Bears Copy Share Image
“Looking at oneself in a mirror is a self-canceling phenomenon. Eyes looking into eyes make a hole which spreads out and renders… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense… — Walker Percy Amnesty Copy Share Image
“Tell me something. Why did I have to know the truth about Margot and know it with absolute certainty? Or rather why,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Can good come from evil? Have you ever considered the possibility that one might undertake a search not for God but for… — Walker Percy Beauty Copy Share Image
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of… — Walker Percy Being real Copy Share Image
“It is otherwise with sports and the media. There, too, a shift has occurred, from active participation to the vicarious participation of… — Walker Percy Active participation Copy Share Image
The so-called sexual revolution is not, as advertised, a liberation of sexual behavior but rather its reversal. In former days, even under… — Walker Percy Behavior Copy Share Image
“He registered a dizzy 7.6 mmv over Brodmann 32, the area of abstractive activity. Since that time I have learned that a… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Why do people often feel bad in good environments and good in bad environments? Why did Mother Teresta think that affluent Westerners… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“I'll make you a little confession. I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another… — Walker Percy Common man Copy Share Image
“You say it is a simple thing surely, all gain and no loss, to pick up a good-looking woman and head for… — Walker Percy First Day Copy Share Image
A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories. — Walker Percy Books Copy Share Image
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past. — Walker Percy Death Copy Share Image
What nuns don't realize is that they look better in nun clothes than J.C. Penney pantsuits. — Walker Percy Belief Copy Share Image
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their face away. — Walker Percy Faces Copy Share Image
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“During my last year in college I discovered that I was picking up the mannerisms of Akim Tamiroff, the only useful thing,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
