Walker Percy Quotes


"Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past."
- Walker Percy
(Related: Grief, Loss, Past)

"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
(Related: Life, Possibility, Despair)

"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away."
- Walker Percy
(Related: Love, Faces)

"You can get all A's and still flunk life."
- Walker Percy
(Related: Life)

"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."
- Walker Percy
(Related: Age, Idea, Man)