Ennui Quotes by David Foster Wallace

“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.”

— David Foster Wallace

“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

“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.”

— David Foster Wallace

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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?”

— David Foster Wallace

“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

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