Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving? — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Perhaps what most of us perceive as the centers of ourselves are simply no longer needed. And we both know that the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I had to face: I had chosen. My choice, this was love. I had chosen I think the way out of the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The lives of most people are small tight pallid and sad, more to be mourned than their deaths. We starve at the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...as he finally sheds his body's suit, ------ finds his gut and throat again and newly whole, clean and unimpeded, free, catapulted… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Worship your body, beauty, and sexual allure and you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I claim that the fact that we are strongly encouraged to identify with characters for whom death is not a significant creative… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe even 50, without wanting to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“ *One clue that there’s something not quite real about sequential time the way you experience it is the various paradoxes of… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“- then more Losses, with the Substance seeming like the only consolation against the pain of the mounting Losses, and of course… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The capital-T Truth is about life before death. It is about making it to 30, or maybe 50, without wanting to shoot… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness ... has to do with… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“None of this stuff is really about morality or religion or dogma or big fancy questions of life after death. The capital-T… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it's a game played on the… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The reality is that dying isn’t bad, but it takes forever. And that forever is no time at all. I know that… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable.... It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
