All Flannery O'Connor Quotes
- When I was six I had a chicken that walked backward and was in the Pathe News. I was in it too with the chicken.… Anticlimax
- The fact is that anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days. If you… Able
- There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of… Always Writes
- ...free will does not mean one will, but many wills conflicting in one man. Freedom cannot be conceived simply. Conceived
- Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute… Belief
- A working knowledge of the devil can be very well had from resisting him. Devil
- Grace changes us and change is painful". Change
- I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music. Discipline
- Doctors always think anybody doing something they aren't is a quack; also they think all patients are idiots. All
- Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better. Acceptance
- Her name was Maude and she drank whisky all day from a fruit jar under the counter. All
- The trees were full of silver-white sunlight and the meanest of them sparkled. Full
- Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow. Allow
- The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.†(August 9, 1955) Among
- I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say. Inspirational
- I have almost no capacity for worship. What I have is the knowledge that it is my duty to worship and worship only what I… Believe
- Later he saw Jesus move from tree to tree in the back of his mind, a wild ragged figure motioning him to turn around and… Dark
- He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him. Blank
- I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way. Blind
- St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: “The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour… Any