A Quote by 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.

Walker Percy

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Walker Percy
American - Writer
May 28, 1916 - May 10, 1990

You live in a deranged age, more deranged than 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

Suppose, then, that all men were sick or deranged, save one or two of them who were healthy and of right mind. It would then be the latter two who would be thought to be sick and deranged and the former not!

Aristotle

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.

Philip K. Dick

Quite quickly I grew less deranged. I had begun the process of calming down, assimilating and compromising, which is necessary to live comfortably in the world as it is, and probably is why its imbalance never changes. But underneath, my idea of life was completely altered.

Helen Fielding

A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.

Joyce Carol Oates

Great. First the anonymous call. Now letters. Body parts all over town. It was like a scavenger hunt for psychos. Running after clues with a half-deranged, serial-killer-obsessed, recovering-addict cop was not a good idea. Then again...

Chelsea Cain

He started keeping a journal - had been, in fact, secretly doing so for some time: the furtive act of a deranged person.

Philip K. Dick

With the egoic consciousness having become so dysfunctional, and now having at our disposal all these enormous technologies and scientific advances, if nothing changes the ego will use those things - as it already has been doing - and will amplify the technology that we now have. The scientific advances, to a large extent, will be used in the service of the ego, and they will become more and more destructive.

Eckhart Tolle

She is deranged, but so so playful.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire.

Howard Hughes

It's not me but the world that's deranged.

Haruki Murakami

There is no patience so terrible as that of the deranged.

Sarah Waters

To be ill adjusted to a deranged world is not a breakdown.

Jeanette Winterson

I did deranged quite well, when the occasion called for it.

Ilona Andrews

Contrary to popular cable TV-induced opinion, aerobics have nothing to do with squeezing our body into hideous shiny Spandex, grinning like a deranged orangutan, and doing cretinous steps to debauched disco music.