« All Us Quotes · David Foster Wallace's Page
Us Quotes by David Foster Wallace
- The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument…
- Look, man, we'd probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid ones, but do we need fiction that does nothing but…
- There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us---these…
- Are we not all of us fanatics? I say only what you of the U.S.A. pretend you do not know. Attachments are of great seriousness.…
- Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is…
- An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something…
- I am concentrating docilely on the question why U.S. restrooms always appear to us as infirmaries for public distress, the place to reagain control.
- And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an…
- The capital-T Truth is about life BEFORE death. It is about the real value of a real education, which has almost nothing to do with…
- There's a grosser irony about Politically Correct English. This is that PCE purports to be the dialect of progressive reform but is in fact -…
- We all suffer alone in the real world. True empathy's impossible. But if a piece of fiction can alow us imaginatively to identify with a…
- the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs…
- It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else…
- Real leaders are people who “help us overcome the limitations of our own individual laziness and selfishness and weakness and fear and get us to…
- In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep…
- Most of us will still take nihilism over neanderthalism.
- We're kind of wishing some parents would come back. And of course we're uneasy about the fact that we wish they'd come back - I…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong