Quote by Walker Percy Download Open image ““At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.”” — Walker Percy ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The ghosts from my past float behind my eyes and haunt me in my dreams.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I often spend half the night with ghosts, remembering times fifty years past as if they were yesterday. The mystery of a midnight visitor… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“That night I lay in bed and stared out the window. Night and I were old friends.” — Laura Bickle Copy Share Image
“I forced my eyes open and saw the image that’s haunted me every day for the past years of my life. And every day,… — Liz Thebart Copy Share Image
“Night is when the whispers of the past become the echoes of the present.” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“do you know what ghosts are? they are sad, evicted things. memories without homes” — Paul Prospero Copy Share Image
“All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore… — Ada Limon Copy Share Image
“I feel the nights stretching away thousands long behind the days till they reach the darkness where all of me is ancestor.” — Annie Finch Copy Share Image
“When your past tries to haunt you tell it you don’t believe in ghosts.” — Matshona Dhliwayo 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 sticking out?… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy 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, it is… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“Ours is the only civilization in history which has enshrined mediocrity as its national ideal. Others have been corrupt, but leave it to us… — Walker Percy 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… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
For the world is broken, sundered, busted down the middle, self ripped from self and man pasted back together as mythical monster, half angel,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“For me, all signifiers fit me, one as well as another. I am rascal, hero, craven, brave, treacherous, loyal, at once the secret hero… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“But the expectation of the self, to be informed in its nothingness--if only I can get out of this old place and into the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
Nothing remains but desire, and desire comes howling down Elysian Fields like a mistral. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
“A variant of the amnesic-plot device is the inadvertent return of the amnesiac to home territory, where he is welcomed by a lovely woman,… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
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