Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Ken Kesey
Age: 66 †
Born: 1935
Born: September 17
Died: 2001
Died: November 10
Author
Essayist
Novelist
Writer
La Junta
Colorado
Kenneth Kesey
Kenneth Elton Kesey
Ken Elton Kesey
Ken E. Kesey
O. U. Levon
Lose
Cuckoos
Relationship
Footing
Joy
Flew
Loses
Laughed
Happiness
Laughter
Reality
Smile
Men
Laugh
Laughing
Pranksters
More quotes by Ken Kesey
The job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
Ken Kesey
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, The fit is momentary.
Ken Kesey
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey
She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.
Ken Kesey
Like a cartoon world, where the figures are flat and outlined in black, jerking through some kind of goofy story that might be real funny if it weren't for the cartoon figures being real guys.
Ken Kesey
Never before did I realize that mental illness could have the aspect of power, power. Think of it: perhaps the more insane a man is, the more powerful he could become. Hitler an example. Fair makes the old brain reel, doesn't it?
Ken Kesey
I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.
Ken Kesey
It is just as much an offense to take offense as it is to give offense.
Ken Kesey
The world news might not be therapeutic.
Ken Kesey
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
Ken Kesey
Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.
Ken Kesey
- he's finished with that it's like an old clock that won't tell time but won't stop neither, with the hands bent out of shape and the face bare of numbers and the alarm bell rusted silent, an old worthless clock that just keeps ticking and cuckooing without meaning nothing.
Ken Kesey
What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure all the guy had to do was wait.
Ken Kesey
We think we’re in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past.
Ken Kesey
You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fog, painful as it might be, or you could relax and lose yourself
Ken Kesey
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey
The secret of being a top-notch con man is being able to know what the mark wants, and how to make him think he's getting it.
Ken Kesey
What do you think you are, for Chrissake, crazy or somethin'? Well you're not! You're not! You're no crazier than the average asshole out walkin' around on the streets and that's it.
Ken Kesey
It is bad to suppress laughter. It goes back down to your hips. Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Ken Kesey
