Free people have a serious problem with place, being in a place, using up a place, deciding which new place to rotate… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and… — Walker Percy Age 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
“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
“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
“In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the… — Walker Percy Happiness Copy Share Image
“he believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves… — Walker Percy Death 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
“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
“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
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
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
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 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
“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
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
“...having only learned to recognize merde when I see it, having inherited no more from my father than a good nose for… — Walker Percy Creative person Copy Share Image
“It, the self, is in fact the only alien in the entire Cosmos. The modern objective consciousness will go to any length… — Walker Percy Cosmos 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
They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide… — Walker Percy Alive Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a person lives somewhere, in a neighborhood, the place is not certified for him. More than likely he will live… — Walker Percy Emptiness 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
“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
“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 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
“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
“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
“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
