Walker Percy Quotes About Failing

Quotes about: Failing

• Lord, grant that my work increase knowledge and help other men. Failing that, Lord, grant that it will not lead to man’s destruction. Failing that, Lord, grant that my article in Brain be published before the destruction takes place.

  Walker Percy

  Helping Others, Men, Brain

• They all think any minute I'm going to commit suicide. What a joke. The truth of course is the exact opposite: suicide is the only thing that keeps me alive. Whenever everything else fails, all I have to do is consider suicide and in two seconds I'm as cheerful as a nitwit. But if I could not kill myself -- ah then, I would. I can do without nembutal or murder mysteries but not without suicide.

  Walker Percy

  Suicide, Thinking, Opposites

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.84, Open Road Media

• My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.

  Walker Percy

  Mother, Failing, Adolescence

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Second Coming”, p.66, Open Road Media

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