Walker Percy Quotes
Most popular Walker Percy Quotes
![You can get all A's and still flunk life. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/36/34836A-you-can-get-all-as-and-still-flunk-life-walker-percy.png)
You can get all A's and still flunk life.
![Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/17/27417A-boredom-is-the-self-being-stuffed-with-itself-walker-percy.png)
Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.
![Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/42/42642A-bourbon-does-for-me-what-the-piece-cake-did-proust-walker-percy.png)
Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.
![We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/40/13140A-we-love-those-who-know-the-worst-us-dont-turn-walker-percy.png)
We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
![There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/93/35393A-there-is-no-pain-on-this-earth-like-seeing-same-walker-percy.png)
There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.
![A novelist these days has to be an ex-suicide. A good novel...is possible only after one has given up and let go. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/45/36645A-a-novelist-these-days-has-to-be-ex-suicide-good-walker-percy.png)
A novelist these days has to be an ex-suicide. A good novel...is possible only after one has given up and let go.
![Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/18/32518A-where-there-is-chance-of-gain-there-is-also-chance-walker-percy.png)
Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
![There is no joy on this earth like falling in love with a woman and managing at the same time the trick of keeping just enough perspective to see her fall in love too. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/05/35205A-there-is-no-joy-on-this-earth-like-falling-love-walker-percy.png)
There is no joy on this earth like falling in love with a woman and managing at the same time the trick of keeping just enough perspective to see her fall in love too.
![It is possible...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. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/70/26570A-it-is-possiblethat-the-artist-is-both-thin-skinned-prophetic-walker-percy.png)
It is possible...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.
![There may be times when the greatest service a novelist can do his fellow man is to follow General Patton's injunction: Attack, attack, attack. Attack the false in the name of the real. - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/46/36646A-there-may-be-times-when-the-greatest-service-novelist-can-walker-percy.png)
There may be times when the greatest service a novelist can do his fellow man is to follow General Patton's injunction: Attack, attack, attack. Attack the false in the name of the real.
![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? - Walker Percy quote.](/img/q/02/30602A-why-is-it-that-one-can-look-at-lion-or-walker-percy.png)
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. 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 quote.](/img/q/06/34906A-i-have-discovered-that-most-people-have-no-one-talk-walker-percy.png)
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.