Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown: all the friendly and likable people seem dead to me; only the haters seem alive.
– Walker Percy
I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
– Walker Percy
Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
– Walker Percy
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
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
– Walker Percy
Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos-novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes-you are beyond doubt the strangest?
– Walker Percy
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
– Walker Percy
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.