Quotes of Walker Percy

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You can get all A's and still flunk life.

- Walker Percy

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“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Spend the afternoon, you can't take it with you. ”

- Annie Dillard

“ Do you ever put your arms out and just spin and spin and spin? Well, that’s what love is like. Everything inside of you tells you to stop before you fall, but you just keep going. ”

- Practical Magic

“ When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person’s life. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

“ To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness. ”

- Woody Allen

“ Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made. ”

- Tyler Kent White

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ You need just the right amount of 'Fuck the world' and the right amount of belief in something...and you need the right amount of love. ”

- Gerard Way

“ Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ There's a very positive relationship between people's ability to accomplish any task and the time they're willing to spend on it. ”

- Joyce Brothers

“ There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them. ”

- Phyllis Bottome

“ Gratitude is not love. Don’t mix the two because they are not the same. ”

- Frank Matobo

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. ”

- Leo Buscaglia

“ If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace. ”

- John Lennon

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ Love comforteth like sunshine after rain. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ So many reasons to hate and still I choose to love anyway... ”

- Samiha Totanji