All Walker Percy Quotes
- Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. Alcohol
- I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free. Discovered
- Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. Bored
- A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious. Baffling
- In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished. Consumer
- In this world goodness is destined to be defeated. But a man must go down fighting. That is the victory. To do anything less is… Anything Less
- What is the nature of the search? you ask. Really it is very simple, at least for a fellow like me; so simple that it… Anyone
- Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live there sadly and… Anywhere
- It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness… Bad
- The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off. Accounted
- A repetition is the re-enactment of past experience toward the end of isolating the time segment which has lapsed in order that it, the lapsed… Adulteration
- As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair. Despair
- Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition. All
- This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground. America
- Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep. Bored
- Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases,… Affair
- To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Aware
- Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries. Connection
- But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write… All
- Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? Death