Walker Percy Quotes
Top 79 wise famous quotes and sayings by Walker Percy
Walker Percy Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Genius lies not in making the great discoveries, but in seeing the connections between the smaller ones ...
Fiction doesn't tell us something we don't know, it tells us something we know but don't know that we know.
Pascal told only half the story. He said man was a thinking reed. What man is, is a thinking reed and a walking genital.
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
The self can be as desperately stranded in the transcendence of theory as in the immanence of consumption.
But there is much to be said for giving up ... grand ambitions and living the most ordinary life imaginable.
I have nothing else to offer you but my own happiness. Please say that it, at least, measures up, that it is a proper sort of unhappiness.
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?
God, if you recall, did not warn his people against dirty books. He warned them against high places.
As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
A great scientist once said that genius consists not in making great discoveries but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.
All he had to do was solve the mystery of the universe, which may be difficult but is not as difficult as living an ordinary life.
At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.
Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr.
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
I believe in God and the whole business but I love women best, music and science next, whiskey next, God fourth, and my fellowman hardly at all.
Have you noticed that the narrower the view the more you can see? For the first time I understand how old ladies can sit on their porches for years.
Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
People who are ordinarily understood to dislike each other or at least to be indifferent toward each other discover that they have much in common.
This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.
The fact is I am quite happy in a movie, even a bad movie. Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives ...
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
The origin of consciousness is the initiation of the sign-user into the world of signs by a sign-giver.
This is another thing about the world which is upside-down: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive. Down
This miserable trick the romantic plays upon himself: of setting just beyond his reach the very thing he prizes.
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 to be less than a man.