Quote

Anesthetized time nothing moves and everything is at once.

Ken Kesey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Anesthetized
Moves
Moving
Everything
Nothing
Time

More quotes by Ken Kesey

Image
The raw materials of reality without the glue of time are materials adrift and reality is as meaningless as the balsa parts of a model airplane scattered to the wind.
Ken Kesey
Image
That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
There’s no doubt in my mind that McMurphy’s won, but I’m not sure what.
Ken Kesey
Image
The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.
Ken Kesey
Image
Of offering more than what I can deliver, I have a bad habit, it is true. But I have to offer more than I can deliver, To be able to deliver what I do.
Ken Kesey
Image
Major part of the Southern California pop scene in the 60s People think that love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Ken Kesey
Image
But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.
Ken Kesey
Image
The man who seeks revenge digs two graves.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Ken Kesey
Image
See with your ears and hear with your eyes.
Ken Kesey
Image
There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.
Ken Kesey
Image
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
Image
Then - as he was talking - a set of tail-lights going past lit up McMurphy's face, and the windshield reflected an expression that was allowed only because he figured it'd be too dark for anybody in the car to see, dreadfully tired and strained and frantic, like there wasn't enough time left for something he had to do.
Ken Kesey
Image
A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance . . . like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care about anything but himself and his dying.
Ken Kesey
Image
There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus. If you're on the bus, and you get left behind, then you'll find it again. If you're off the bus in the first place — then it won't make a damn.
Ken Kesey
Image
Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.
Ken Kesey
Image
You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.
Ken Kesey
Image
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