Top 200 Ken Kesey Quotes (2024 Update)
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Ken Kesey Quote: “The best of all possible cages.′ Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. ‘What more can one ask?”

151. “The best of all possible cages.′ Ben stepped back to regard the job with a sad smile. ‘What more can one ask?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.”

152. “But like always when I try to place my thoughts in the past and hide there, the fear close at hand seeps in through the memory.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?”

153. “Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.”

154. “Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He wants something from me. He doesn’t know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone.”

155. “He wants something from me. He doesn’t know that the only thing I have left is the hollow of something gone.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.”

156. “All right. Then this is the whole shebang, boys, right here underfoot. Give up and admit it.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier.”

157. “Reality is greater than the sum of its parts, also a damn sight holier.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”

158. “Anesthetized time; nothing moves and everything is at once.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum.”

159. “He who- what was it?- walks out of step, hears another drum.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal.”

160. “I still had my own notions. How McMurphy was a giant come out of the sky to save us from the combine that was networking the land with copper wire and crystal.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Leary can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”

161. “Leary can get a part of my mind that’s kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.”

162. “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.”

163. “Which is just another way of blaming, and perhaps the best way, because there is solace and a certain stoical peace in blaming everything on the rain, and then blaming something as uncontrollable as the rain on something as indifferent as the Arm of the Lord.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “They didn’t mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that’s excusable, they say, that’s a hard-workin’ feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you’re a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you’re a goddamned criminal.”

164. “They didn’t mind so much when I was a dumb logger and got into a hassle; that’s excusable, they say, that’s a hard-workin’ feller blowing off steam, they say. But if you’re a gambler, if they know you to get up a back-room game now and then, all you have to do is spit slantwise and you’re a goddamned criminal.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.”

165. “Tata zicea ca, daca nu iei seama, oamenii te silesc, intr-un fel sau altul, sa faci ce socotesc ei ca trebuie sa faci, ori sa te indaratnicesti ca un catar si sa faci toate pe dos, in ciuda lor.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.”

166. “You can make a mark across the night with the tip of an embered stick, and you can actually see it fixed in its finity. You can be absolutely sure of its treacherous impermanence. And that is all.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I didn’t say it didn’t make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.”

167. “I didn’t say it didn’t make sense, Chief – I just said it was talking crazy.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “In the deepening sky where the spearpoint firs scratch the clouds, already a moon – like a cast-off paring from the setting sun. This is Hank’s bell, too.”

168. “In the deepening sky where the spearpoint firs scratch the clouds, already a moon – like a cast-off paring from the setting sun. This is Hank’s bell, too.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “The big, hard body had a tough grip on life. It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around so much I finally had to lie full length on top of it and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days.”

169. “The big, hard body had a tough grip on life. It fought a long time against having it taken away, flailing and thrashing around so much I finally had to lie full length on top of it and scissor the kicking legs with mine while I mashed the pillow into the face. I lay there on top of the body for what seemed days.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “She don’t lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don’t have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.”

170. “She don’t lose on her losses, but she wins on ours. To beat her you don’t have to whip her two out of three or three out of five, but every time you meet. As soon as you let down your guard, as soon as you lose once, she’s won for good. And eventually we all got to lose. Nobody can help that.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.”

171. “They wouldn’t be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon had going.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “With eyes like he’s been to the edge and looked over .”

172. “With eyes like he’s been to the edge and looked over .”

Ken Kesey Quote: “And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers... in that kind of world.”

173. “And sometimes, as you sing, you cannot help feeling that the unheard echoes and tunes forgotten are echoes of other voices and tunes of other singers... in that kind of world.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “It’s gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys – and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”

174. “It’s gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys – and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it’s gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is ranting and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It’s still hard for me to have a clear mind thinking on it. But it’s the truth even if it didn’t happen.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “And crying doesn’t always mean need.”

175. “And crying doesn’t always mean need.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Rany, nawet chinscy komunisci niejednego by sie mogli od siostry nauczyc!”

176. “Rany, nawet chinscy komunisci niejednego by sie mogli od siostry nauczyc!”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn’t stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you’ve no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It’s not the rabbit’s place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.”

177. “Or, perhaps, the fellows are ill at ease because they didn’t stick up for their friend. Perhaps they are feeling guilty for the way they once again let her victimize them into being her interrogators. Cheer up, friends, you’ve no reason to feel ashamed. It is all as it should be. It’s not the rabbit’s place to stick up for his fellow. That would have been foolish. No, you were wise, cowardly but wise.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.”

178. “We are victims of a matriarchy here, my friend, and the doctor is just as helpless against it as we are.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games.”

179. “Which one of you claims to be the craziest? Which one is the biggest loony? Who runs these card games.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “In the fall when they burn the stubble off the fields the sun gets this dusty hazy color, and the mare’s-tail clouds whipping along near Wakonda Head look like goldenrod bent over by the wind. It’s always real pretty. You can almost hear it ring in the sky.”

180. “In the fall when they burn the stubble off the fields the sun gets this dusty hazy color, and the mare’s-tail clouds whipping along near Wakonda Head look like goldenrod bent over by the wind. It’s always real pretty. You can almost hear it ring in the sky.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.”

181. “There’s long spells – three days, years – when you can’t see a thing, know where you are only by the speaker sounding overhead like a bell buoy clanging in the fog. When I can see, the guys are usually moving around as unconcerned as though they didn’t notice so much as a mist in the air. I believe the fog affects their memory some way it doesn’t affect mine.”

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.”

182. “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.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more... The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.”

183. “A wind came up and broke the sea into green and silver chunks, like a field of glass and chrome, and the boat began to rock and pitch about more... The waves got bigger as we got closer to shore, and from the crests clots of white foam blew swirling up in the wind to join the gulls.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Now I don’t know what I love any more. I don’t know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that’s really there starts up.”

184. “Now I don’t know what I love any more. I don’t know where the thing I make-pretend leaves off and the thing that’s really there starts up.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry’s and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.”

185. “Boney Stokes was this oldtime acquaintance of Henry’s and figured the best way to pass the time of day was by gradually dying.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn’t want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn’t want the questions.”

186. “I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn’t want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn’t want the questions.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “But even then, with her prize in tow as she weaves out of the bar, the shield never changes, the expression stays, still somewhere between blunt ferocity and brute pathos.”

187. “But even then, with her prize in tow as she weaves out of the bar, the shield never changes, the expression stays, still somewhere between blunt ferocity and brute pathos.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “He had made his trip without quite realizing it.”

188. “He had made his trip without quite realizing it.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself.”

189. “Viv feels the hand go bloodless and numb against her neck; startled, she turns to look at his face. There is no expression at all. For a moment he is gone from his face, as though he had fallen somewhere inward, away from her and the old man and the fire, into a remote pool of himself.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting – very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren’t even counted yet – but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.”

190. “Those who had been in on the night started telling about it with a kind of quiet pride and wonder, the way people tell about seeing a big hotel fire or a dam bursting – very solemn and respectful because the casualties aren’t even counted yet – but the longer the telling went on, the less solemn the fellows got.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel – tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can’t tell which.”

191. “She slides through the door with a gust of cold and locks the door behind her and I see her fingers trail across the polished steel – tip of each finger the same color as her lips. Funny orange. Like the tip of a soldering iron. Color so hot or so cold if she touches you with it you can’t tell which.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I love them but I cannot give myself for them.”

192. “I love them but I cannot give myself for them.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Is it that?” she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, “not being sure of that ‘someday’? Or is it not being sure of having that ‘somebody’?”

193. “Is it that?” she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, “not being sure of that ‘someday’? Or is it not being sure of having that ‘somebody’?”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Our thermosed lives are, at best nine-tenths of the time padded by vacuum and sealed by silvered silicon, but, for all their artificiality, we are generally able to find means for unstoppering them now and then, and enjoy at least some portion of addlepated freedom.”

194. “Our thermosed lives are, at best nine-tenths of the time padded by vacuum and sealed by silvered silicon, but, for all their artificiality, we are generally able to find means for unstoppering them now and then, and enjoy at least some portion of addlepated freedom.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Era emerso alla vita per forse un minuto cercando di dirci qualcosa, qualcosa che nessuno di noi si curava di ascoltare o cercava di capire, e lo sforzo lo aveva svuotato.”

195. “Era emerso alla vita per forse un minuto cercando di dirci qualcosa, qualcosa che nessuno di noi si curava di ascoltare o cercava di capire, e lo sforzo lo aveva svuotato.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn’t the practices, I don’t think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me – and the great voice of millions chanting, ‘Shame. Shame. Shame.’ It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different.”

196. “I indulged in certain practices that our society regards as shameful. And I got sick. It wasn’t the practices, I don’t think, it was the feeling that the great, deadly, pointing forefinger of society was pointing at me – and the great voice of millions chanting, ‘Shame. Shame. Shame.’ It’s society’s way of dealing with someone different.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. I once had a pet pine squirrel named Omar who lived in the cotton secret.”

197. “To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. I once had a pet pine squirrel named Omar who lived in the cotton secret.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “What they got on the program for us now, Chief?” he asked. “The boot? The rack? I hope nothing too strenuous, because, man, am I stove up bad!”

198. “What they got on the program for us now, Chief?” he asked. “The boot? The rack? I hope nothing too strenuous, because, man, am I stove up bad!”

Ken Kesey Quote: “Hank brooded behind a newspaper with heavy, rumbling silence, and Lee, smoking and staring out of the kitchen window with tragic, defeated eyes and an anemic pallor to his cheeks, didn’t look capable of sustaining the shock of a haircut, let alone the loss of a mouthful of teeth.”

199. “Hank brooded behind a newspaper with heavy, rumbling silence, and Lee, smoking and staring out of the kitchen window with tragic, defeated eyes and an anemic pallor to his cheeks, didn’t look capable of sustaining the shock of a haircut, let alone the loss of a mouthful of teeth.”

Ken Kesey Quote: “When a guy’s getting screwed he’s got a right to holler. And we’ve been damn well screwed.”

200. “When a guy’s getting screwed he’s got a right to holler. And we’ve been damn well screwed.”

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