Fear Quotes by David Foster Wallace

I felt the sort of soaring, ceilingless tedium that transcends tedium and becomes worry.

— David Foster Wallace

“You'll worry less about what people think about you when you realize how seldom they do.”

— David Foster Wallace

“No more Network reluctance to make a program too entertaining for fear its commercials would pale in comparison.”

— David Foster Wallace

For me, boviscopophobia is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.

— David Foster Wallace

You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.

— David Foster Wallace

“...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.”

— David Foster Wallace

If you worship power, you will feel weak and afraid, needing ever more power over others to keep the fear at bay.

— David Foster Wallace

“I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen. Can you understand?”

— David Foster Wallace

I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling…

— David Foster Wallace

What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really…

— David Foster Wallace

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky.

— David Foster Wallace

Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and…

— David Foster Wallace

“A U.S. of modern A. where the State is not a team or a code, but a sort of sloppy intersection of…

— David Foster Wallace

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with…

— David Foster Wallace

“There are, apparently, persons who are deeply afraid of their own emotions, particularly the painful ones. Grief, regret, sadness. Sadness especially, perhaps.…

— David Foster Wallace

“You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too…

— David Foster Wallace

“It never occurred to him to ask her what sort of demeanor she preferred. He didn't have to strategize or even scheme.…

— David Foster Wallace

My own terror of appearing sentimental is so strong that I’ve decided to fight against it, some; but the terror is still…

— David Foster Wallace

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

“I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not.…

— David Foster Wallace

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

“And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means…

— David Foster Wallace

“[...] at this point the God-understanding stuff kind of makes him want to puke, from fear. Something you can't see or hear…

— David Foster Wallace

How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running…

— David Foster Wallace

“It’s all over everywhere. I don’t know what I could call it. It’s like I can’t get enough outside it to call…

— David Foster Wallace

And I was -- this is just how I was afraid you'd take it. I knew it, that you'd think this means…

— David Foster Wallace

“Lenz likes him, and there's always this slight hangnail of fear, like clinging, whenever he likes somebody. It's like something terrible could…

— David Foster Wallace

“Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as…

— David Foster Wallace

“... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always "frontal" lobotomy;but was there any…

— David Foster Wallace

“Maybe it’s not metaphysics. Maybe it’s existential. I’m talking about the individual US citizen’s deep fear, the same basic fear that you…

— David Foster Wallace

“But Don you're still a human being, you still want to live, you crave connection and society, you know intellectually that you're…

— David Foster Wallace

“But he’d also gotten a personal prickly chill all over from his own thinking. He could do the dextral pain the same…

— David Foster Wallace

“You burn to have your photograph in a tennis magazine.” “I’m afraid so.” “Why again exactly, now?” “I guess to be felt…

— David Foster Wallace

“I go through a loop in which I notice all the ways I am — for just an example — self-centered and…

— David Foster Wallace

“I kept saying her name and she would ask What? and I’d say her name again. I’m not afraid of how this…

— David Foster Wallace

“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

Worship power-you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay.…

— David Foster Wallace

“Part of the reason I actually preferred Twin Peaks's second season to its first was the fascinating spectacle of watching a narrative…

— David Foster Wallace

“When you’re meeting a whole lot of new people and having to do things you’re in—I’m in a constant low-level state of…

— david foster wallace