Walker Percy Quotes

A collection of quotes by Walker Percy.

Walker Percy (1916-1990) was an American novelist and philosopher. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, Percy was raised in a prominent Southern family. After studying medicine, he contracted tuberculosis and spent several years in a sanatorium. This experience influenced his writing, which often explored themes of existentialism, alienation, and the search for meaning in a postmodern world. Percy's best-known works include "The Moviegoer" (1961), which won the National Book Award, and "Love in the Ruins" (1971). His unique blend of philosophical insight and Southern storytelling made him a highly regarded figure in American literature.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leavi

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 is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest.The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.

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The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sun

The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what i

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, becaus

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.