“What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in… — Walker Percy Despair Copy Share Image
“The real wonder is not that the Cosmos is now seen as wonderful but that it is not. Despite its inconceivable vastness,… — Walker Percy Cosmos Copy Share Image
[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite… — Walker Percy Action Copy Share Image
“My own conviction is that semiotics provides an escape from the solipsist prison by its stress on the social origins of language--you… — Walker Percy Faith Copy Share Image
Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When… — Walker Percy Business Copy Share Image
“I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“How much better it would be if they weren't so damn understanding--if they kicked me out of the house. To find yourself… — Walker Percy Escape Copy Share Image
“The fateful law of human semiotics is this: that of all the objects in the entire Cosmos which the sign-user can apprehend… — Walker Percy Language Copy Share Image
“An organism exists in its environment in only one mode, that of an open system responding to those segments of its environment… — Walker Percy Biology Copy Share Image
How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present.… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“He's quite a guy. Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two… — Walker Percy Bad advice Copy Share Image
The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide… — Walker Percy Alive Copy Share Image
“Comes again the longing, the desire that has no name. Is it for Mrs. Prouty, for a drink, for both: for a… — Walker Percy Desire 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 happiness of the South was very formidable. It was an almost invincible happiness. It defied you to call it anything else.… — Walker Percy Happiness Copy Share Image
“Do you know what he told me after lying under a cliff for thirty six hours with two inches of his femur… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“What do you seek--God? you ask with a smile. I hesitate to answer, since all other Americans have settled the matter for… — Walker Percy Believe in god Copy Share Image
“I stood up. Can a man stand alone, naked, and at his ease, wrist flexed at his side like Michelangelo's David, without… — Walker Percy Silence Copy Share Image
“But if the saleslady means what she says—and since you have gone through any number of such styles in the past— then… — Walker Percy Fashion Copy Share Image
“Yes, interest! The worm of interest. Are you surprised? No? Yes? One conclusion I have reached here after a year in my… — Walker Percy Books Copy Share Image
“The salvation of art derives in the best of modern times from a celebration of the triumph of the autonomous self—as in… — Walker Percy Art Copy Share Image
“My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that… — Walker Percy Art Copy Share Image
“Today is my thirtieth birthday and I sit on the ocean wave in the schoolyard and wait for Kate and think of… — Walker Percy Believe in god Copy Share Image
“For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people.… — Walker Percy Conversation Copy Share Image
“--you have too good a mind to throw away. I don't quite know what we're doing on this insignificant cinder spinning aay… — Walker Percy Cinder Copy Share Image
“He means that he hopes to find himself a girl, the rarest of rare pieces, and live the life of Rudolfo on… — Walker Percy Doubts Copy Share Image
“We've spoken of the Knights of the Holy Grail, Percival. Do you know what I was? The Knight of the Unholy Grail.… — Walker Percy Adventure Copy Share Image
I am not ashamed to use the word class. I will also plead guilty to another charge. The charge is that people… — Walker Percy Apology Copy Share Image
What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it took religion to save me from the… — Walker Percy Love Copy Share Image
The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older… — Walker Percy Ashes Copy Share Image
“It's one thing to develop a nostalgia for home while you're boozing with Yankee writers in Martha's Vineyard or being chased by… — Walker Percy Home Copy Share Image
“The peculiar predicament of the present-day self surely came to pass as a consequence of the disappointment of the high expectations of… — Walker Percy Disappointment Copy Share Image
Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer… — Walker Percy Book Copy Share Image
![“[In art] you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition.” quote by Walker Percy](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3f1/walker-percy-1958_action_in-art-you-are-telling-the-reader-or-the_116938.jpg)
