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Walker Percy Quotes about Loss

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The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

The present age is demented. It is possessed by a sense of dislocation, a loss of personal identity, an alternating sentimentality and rage which, in an individual patient, could be characterized as dementia.

Walker Percy
Loss, Identity, Age
Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.165, Open Road Media

Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.

Walker Percy
Heartbreak, Grief, Loss

Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.

Walker Percy
Loss, Risk, Gains
Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.54, Open Road Media

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