--- title: "24 Want Quotes By Don DeLillo" description: "24 Want quotes by Don DeLillo. Plus more from Don DeLillo and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/don-delillo-294_quote_we-still-want-what-we-want-we-want-a-hai_1990331.jpg" --- > [“We still want what we want. We want a haircut.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/we-still-want-what-we-want-we-want-a-haircut/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/36f/don-delillo-294_quote_we-still-want-what-we-want-we-want-a-hai_1990331.jpg) > [I don’t want your candor. I want your soul in a silver thimble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-don-t-want-your-candor-i-want-your-soul-in-a-silver-thimble/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a37/don-delillo-294_candor_i-don-t-want-your-candor-i-want-your-sou_1822749.jpg) > [“I do not want to talk about it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-do-not-want-to-talk-about-it/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/785/don-delillo-294_interviews_i-do-not-want-to-talk-about-it-2331410_2331410.jpg) > [There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/there-are-times-when-you-want-to-stop-working-at-faith-and-just-be/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b03/don-delillo-294_faith_there-are-times-when-you-want-to-stop-wo_837347.jpg) > [I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-quit-my-job-just-to-quit-i-didn-t-quit-my-job-to-write-fiction-i/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/abe/don-delillo-294_fiction_i-quit-my-job-just-to-quit-i-didn-t-quit_1909344.jpg) > [Say heat. Say wet between my legs. Say legs. Seriously, I want you to. Stockings. Whisper it. The word is meant to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/say-heat-say-wet-between-my-legs-say-legs-seriously-i-want-you-to/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d65/don-delillo-294_heat_say-heat-say-wet-between-my-legs-say-leg_983474.jpg) > [Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/only-a-catastrophe-gets-our-attention-we-want-them-we-depend-on-them-2/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/393/don-delillo-294_attention_only-a-catastrophe-gets-our-attention-we_2369483.jpg) > [I hate my life. I'm at the point where I want to hear about other people's lives. it's like switching from fiction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-hate-my-life-i-m-at-the-point-where-i-want-to-hear-about-other/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a77/don-delillo-294_biographies_i-hate-my-life-i-m-at-the-point-where-i_1982309.jpg) > [“You shout because it makes you brave or you want to announce your recklessness.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/you-shout-because-it-makes-you-brave-or-you-want-to-announce-your/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/60c/don-delillo-294_brave_you-shout-because-it-makes-you-brave-or_1915116.jpg) > [Even when you self-destruct, you want to fail more, lose more, die more than others, stink more than others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/even-when-you-self-destruct-you-want-to-fail-more-lose-more-die-more/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fc6/don-delillo-294_failing_even-when-you-self-destruct-you-want-to_1591238.jpg) > [Ask yourself this question. Do we have to be humans forever? Consciousness is exhausted. Back now to inorganic matter. This is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/ask-yourself-this-question-do-we-have-to-be-humans-forever/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8e8/don-delillo-294_ask-yourself_ask-yourself-this-question-do-we-have-to_1598386.jpg) > [Famous people don't want to be told that you have a quality in common with them. It makes them think there's something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/famous-people-don-t-want-to-be-told-that-you-have-a-quality-in-common/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eaf/don-delillo-294_clothes_famous-people-don-t-want-to-be-told-that_1819945.jpg) > [I don't want to do the type of writing where I recite biography, parentage and education. I want to rise up from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-don-t-want-to-do-the-type-of-writing-where-i-recite-biography/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bde/don-delillo-294_biographies_i-don-t-want-to-do-the-type-of-writing-w_3147410.jpg) > [The future is always a wholeness, a sameness. We're all tall and happy there,' she said. 'This is why the future fails.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/the-future-is-always-a-wholeness-a-sameness-we-re-all-tall-and-happy/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/32e/don-delillo-294_failing_the-future-is-always-a-wholeness-a-samen_416346.jpg) > [Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/men-with-secrets-tend-to-be-drawn-to-each-other-not-because-they-want/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ddd/don-delillo-294_business_men-with-secrets-tend-to-be-drawn-to-eac_3153502.jpg) > [I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-didn-t-do-anything-i-don-t-have-an-explanation-i-don-t-know-why-i/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e2/don-delillo-294_explanation_i-didn-t-do-anything-i-don-t-have-an-exp_1132364.jpg) > [I long for the days of disorder. I want them back, the days when I was alive on the earth, rippling in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-long-for-the-days-of-disorder-i-want-them-back-the-days-when-i-was/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/630/don-delillo-294_alive_i-long-for-the-days-of-disorder-i-want-t_2329092.jpg) > [Only a catastrophe gets our attention. We want them, we depend on them. As long as they happen somewhere else. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/only-a-catastrophe-gets-our-attention-we-want-them-we-depend-on-them/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81e/don-delillo-294_attention_only-a-catastrophe-gets-our-attention-we_1319128.jpg) > [Her death would leave me scattered, talking to chairs and pillows. Don't let us die, I want to cry out to that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/her-death-would-leave-me-scattered-talking-to-chairs-and-pillows-don/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/51f/don-delillo-294_century_her-death-would-leave-me-scattered-talki_2588357.jpg) > [Capital burns off the nuance in a culture. Foreign investment, global markets, corporate acquisitions, the flow of information through transnational media, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/capital-burns-off-the-nuance-in-a-culture-foreign-investment-global/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/28c/don-delillo-294_acquisition_capital-burns-off-the-nuance-in-a-cultur_837281.jpg) > [In this country there is a universal third person, the man we all want to be. Advertising has discovered this man. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/in-this-country-there-is-a-universal-third-person-the-man-we-all-want/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b20/don-delillo-294_advertising_in-this-country-there-is-a-universal-thi_1882939.jpg) > [I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-am-ashamed-every-day-and-more-ashamed-the-next-but-i-will-spend-the/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/deb/don-delillo-294_ashamed_i-am-ashamed-every-day-and-more-ashamed_451033.jpg) > [First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/first-you-look-for-discipline-and-control-you-want-to-exercise-your/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fb7/don-delillo-294_aspiration_first-you-look-for-discipline-and-contro_2343177.jpg) > [The writer is driven by his conviction that some truths aren't arrived at so easily, that life is still full of mystery,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/the-writer-is-driven-by-his-conviction-that-some-truths-aren-t/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a1/don-delillo-294_conviction_the-writer-is-driven-by-his-conviction-t_1931763.jpg) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Don DeLillo > [“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/we-all-know-how-the-thing-we-secretly-fear-is-not-a-secret-at-all-but/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [Everything is barely weeks. Everything is days. We have minutes to live.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/everything-is-barely-weeks-everything-is-days-we-have-minutes-to-live/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [The novel is the dream release, the suspension of reality that history needs to escape its own brutal confinements.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/the-novel-is-the-dream-release-the-suspension-of-reality-that-history/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“As I listened I thought a featureless baggy man was striking me in slow motion with a well-polished stone.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/as-i-listened-i-thought-a-featureless-baggy-man-was-striking-me-in/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/murray-said-i-don-t-trust-anybody-s-nostalgia-but-my-own-nostalgia-is/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/she-is-beginning-to-think-it-is-possible-that-all-creation-is-a-spurt/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“Those who have abandoned belief must still believe in us. They are sure that they are right not to believe but they know belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/those-who-have-abandoned-belief-must-still-believe-in-us-they-are/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/the-plane-had-lost-power-in-all-three-engines-dropped-from-thirty/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“Grass: I live in a great steel tower that reflects the blazing sun. People catch fire just walking by. The more bodies that pile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/grass-i-live-in-a-great-steel-tower-that-reflects-the-blazing-sun/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“What people discard could make a nation”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/what-people-discard-could-make-a-nation/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/marriage-is-something-we-make-from-available-materials-in-this-sense/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/the-true-life-is-not-reducible-to-words-spoken-or-written-not-by/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/i-ve-come-to-think-of-europe-as-a-hardcover-book-america-as-the/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [There is a set of balances and rhythms to a novel that we can't experience in real life. So I think there is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/there-is-a-set-of-balances-and-rhythms-to-a-novel-that-we-can-t/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) > [“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-delillo/there-is-no-lie-in-war-or-preparation-of-war-that-can-t-be-defended/) [Don DeLillo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-delillo/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/don-delillo/#itemlist", "name": "24 Want Quotes By Don DeLillo", "numberOfItems": 24, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“We still want what we want. 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