It's probably hard to feel any sort of Romantic spiritual connection to nature when you have to make your living from it. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Lucky people develop a relationship with a certain kind of art that becomes spiritual, almost religious, and doesn’t mean, you know, church… — 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
Our attachments are our temple, what we worship, no? What we give ourselves to, what we invest with faith. . . .… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“...when he kneels at other times and prays or meditates or tries to achieve a Big-Picture spiritual understanding of God as he… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Fervent Christians are always remembering themselves as—and thus, by extension, judging everyone else outside their sect to be—lost and hopeless and just… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“the patriotic or religious bumper stickers always seem to be on the biggest, most disgustingly selfish vehicles driven by the ugliest, most… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He said he didn’t think Lenore should go to the G.O.D. "Nobody ever finds anybody in a place like that," he said,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Let me put it this way: You cannot live in the world without being in pain, spiritual and physical pain. We have… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's a pivotal, it's a seminal, religious day when you get to both hear and feel your destiny at the same moment,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“true Democratic Spirit is up there with religious faith and emotional maturity and all those other top-of-the-Maslow-Pyramid-type qualities that people spend their… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I know that this stuff probably doesn't sound fun and breezy or grandly inspirational. What it is, so far as I can… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“(She) says that she's finding it especially hard to take when these earnest ravaged folks at the lectern say they're `Here But… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Because here's something else that's weird but true: in the day-to day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing… — 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
![“The root of addict in latin is the word addicere, which means religious devotion. It was an attribute of beginning monks. There is an element in the book [Infinite Jest] in which various people are living out something that I think is true, which is that we all worship. We all have a religious…” quote by David Foster Wallace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/007/david-foster-wallace-161_home_the-root-of-addict-in-latin-is-the-word_251032.jpg)
