Suicide Quotes by David Foster Wallace

10 Suicide quotes by David Foster Wallace

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David Foster Wallace’s ten concise observations on suicide reveal his talent for balancing intellectual depth with emotional honesty. The snippets feel like a quiet, probing conversation.

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“It is not the least bit coincidental that adults who commit suicide with firearms nearly always shoot themselves in...the head. And the…

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“The difference between homicide and suicide is mostly a matter of where you perceive the door top to the cage to be.”

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she committed suicide by putting her extremities down the garbage disposal-first one arm and then, kind of miraculously if you think about…

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“Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” This, like many clichés, so lame…

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“Among pernicious myths is the one where people always get very upbeat and generous and other-directed right before they eliminate their own…

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“When people call it that I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really…

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Think of the old cliché about ‘the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.’ This, like many clichés, so lame…

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Dostoevsky wrote fiction about identity, moral value, death, will, sexual vs. spiritual love, greed, freedom, obsession, reason, faith, suicide. And he did…

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“I think there must be probably different types of suicides. I'm not one of the self-hating ones. The type of like "I'm…

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“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that…

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

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“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills…

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

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Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape…

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“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,…

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“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to…

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“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…

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“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we…

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“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…

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