“You can get all A's and still flunk life.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“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.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“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.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“Jews wait for the Lord, Protestants sing hymns to him, Catholics say mass and eat him.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen.”
― Walker Percy (1916-1990)