All Walker Percy Quotes
- Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met… Achieved
- Not to be onto something is to be in despair. Despair
- What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms… Amnesty
- For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel, half… Angel
- Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him. Catholic
- If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing… Artist
- It is possible, however, that the artist is both thin-skinned and prophetic and, like the canary lowered into the mine shaft to test the air,… Air
- Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself. Bad
- Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. Chance
- My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted. Adolescence
- There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you. Another Man
- Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know. Doesn
- Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to… Afraid
- I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at… Business
- One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance… All
- Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon. Afternoon
- Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real? I remember at the time of the wreck-- people… All
- How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in… Been
- Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. Cities
- Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a… Bad