Ten of My Favorite Ken Kesey Quotes
Quotes, who doesn’t love a good quote? This series of articles we look at Top 10 Famous Quotes by Author Ken Kesey, author quotes are always a challenge and fun to pick, with Ken Kesey you will find my Ten favorites of Ken Kesey’s quotes.
About Ken Kesey
Known for his novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1962, filmed 1975), Ken Kesey was an American writer. He became a counterculture hero and a guru of psychedelic drugs with Timothy Leary in the 1960s. As the Pied Piper who transformed the beat generation into the hippie movement, Kesey has been called the Pied Piper.
Born in La Junta, Colorado, Ken Kesey was raised in Eugene, Oregon, where he learned to box, wrestle, and play football. While studying at the University of Oregon, he acted in college plays. He won a scholarship to Stanford University after graduating. Kesey soon dropped out of school, joined the counterculture movement, and started taking drugs. He married his school sweetheart, Faye Haxby, in 1956.
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Popular Quotes
“But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“Because he knows you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy. He knows there’s a painful side; he knows my thumb smarts and his girlfriend has a bruised breast and the doctor is losing his glasses, but he won’t let the pain blot out the humor no more’n he’ll let the humor blot out the pain.”
― 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, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“It isn’t by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”
― Ken Kesey, Kesey’s Garage Sale
“If you don’t watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“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, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“He knows that you have to laugh at the things that hurt you just to keep yourself in balance, just to keep the world from running you plumb crazy.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“All I know is this: nobody’s very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
― Ken Kesey
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
― Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
10 Famous Quotes by Author Ken Kesey
So there you have it my Ten favorite quotes by Ken Kesey, please comment below and share your favorite quotes by the fantastic author Ken Kesey. Furthermore, if you find any Authors not covered for there, top 10 quotes let me know and I will review their works and find some of their best quotes as has been done here for Ken Kesey.
One Final Bonus – Ken Kesey Quote
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But 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
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