62 Insightful Quotes By Walker Percy, The Renowned American Novelist
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
Why did God make women so beautiful and man with such a loving heart?
Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.
Lucky is the man who does not secretly believe that every possibility is open to him.
You live in a deranged age - more deranged than usual, because despite great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
I like to eat crawfish and drink beer. That's despair?
Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.
Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.
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...
Fiction doesn’t tell us something we don’t know, it tells us something we know but don’t know that we know.
I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.
To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North.
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
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.
Lost in the mystery of finding myself alive.
Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.
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 of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.
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, has caught a whiff of something lethal.
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, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?
I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.
Suppose you ask God for a miracle and God says yes, very well. How do you live the rest of your life?
At night the years come back and perch around my bed like ghosts.
Being uneducated is no guarantee against being obnoxious.
Nowadays when a good-looking woman flirts with me, however idly, I guffaw like some ruddy English lord, haw haw, har har, harr harr.
Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?
