“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Do you think I'm somehow healthier because I don't know how to repress? Is it possible that constant fear is the natural… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Once out of the mailroom, I began to learn more about fear. As soon as fear begins to ascend, anatomically, from the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Doesn't our knowledge of death make life more precious?' What good is a preciousness based on fear and anxiety? It's an anxious… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood. You spot something out of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation. ” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
People in free societies don't have to fear the pathology of the state. We create our own frenzy, our own mass convulsions,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“There’s a kind of theology at work here. The bombs are a kind of god. As his power grows, our fear naturally… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Something about the time of year depressed him deeply. Overcast skies and cutting wind, leaves falling, dusk falling, dark too soon, night… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Murray said, 'I don't trust anybody's nostalgia but my own. Nostalgia is a product of dissatisfaction and rage. It´s a settling of grievances between… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The plane had lost power in all three engines, dropped from thirty-four thousand feet to twelve thousand feet. Something like four miles. When the… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“Marriage is something we make from available materials. In this sense it’s improvised, it’s almost offhand. Maybe this is why we know so little… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever. The true life takes place when we're alone, thinking,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
![“Picture yourself, Jack, a confirmed homebody, a sedentary fellow who finds himself walking in a deep wood. You spot something out of the corner of your eye. Before you know anything else, you know that this thing is very large and that it has no place in your ordinary frame of reference. A flaw in the world picture. Either it shouldn't be here or you shouldn't. Now the thing comes into full view. It is a grizzly bear, enormous, shiny brown, swaggering, dripping slime from its bared fangs. Jack, you have never seen a large animal in the wild. The sight of this grizzer is so electrifyingly strange that it gives you a renewed sense of yourself, a fresh awareness of the self— the self in terms of a unique and horrific situation. You see yourself in a new and intense way. You rediscover yourself. You are lit up for your own imminent dismemberment. The beast on hind legs has enabled you to see who you are as if for the first time, outside familiar surroundings, alone, distinct, whole. The name we give this complicated process is fear. [...] Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level. (p. 218)” quote by Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/573/don-delillo-294_animals_picture-yourself-jack-a-confirmed-homebo_1360630.jpg)
