Children Quotes by David Foster Wallace

If you've never wept and want to, have a child.

— David Foster Wallace

“...a harried commuter is mistaken for Christ by a child he knocks over.”

— David Foster Wallace

It was when I was the age where you can, as they say, "hear voices" without worrying that something is wrong with…

— David Foster Wallace

“Who teaches your U.S.A. children how to choose their temple? What to love enough not to think two times?”

— David Foster Wallace

“I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was…

— David Foster Wallace

“Deluded or not, it's still a lucky way to live. Even though it's temporary. It may well be that the lower-ranked little…

— David Foster Wallace

I perhaps could have been somewhat better. One of the interesting things about playing competitive sports as a child is that you…

— David Foster Wallace

“But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of…

— David Foster Wallace

In reality, genuine epiphanies are extremely rare. In contemporary adult life maturation & acquiescence to reality are gradual processes. Modern usage usually…

— David Foster Wallace

“One of the few things I still miss from my Midwest childhood was this weird, deluded but unshakable conviction that everything around…

— David Foster Wallace

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces…

— David Foster Wallace

If you can think of times in your life that you’ve treated people with extraordinary decency and love, and pure uninterested concern,…

— David Foster Wallace

The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment…

— David Foster Wallace

“It may be that psychologists are off-base in their preoccupation with children’s need to feel that their father or some other parent…

— David Foster Wallace

I was never the sort of child who believed in "monsters under the bed" or vampires, or who needed a night-light in…

— David Foster Wallace

“You see parents as kind or unkind or happy or miserable or drunk or sober or great or near-great or failed the…

— David Foster Wallace

“Okay, you know, is it weird to get so depressed watching a children’s Christmas special— Oh, wait, I shouldn’t say that. I…

— David Foster Wallace

“The point here for the best kids is to inculcate their sense that it’s never about being seen. It’s never. If they…

— David Foster Wallace