Fear Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Money Suffering Wealth
“Money soothes a lot of ills and helps people to tolerate what they might not otherwise be able to stomach.” — Tami Egonu Copy Share Image
“What we discovered was that the only thing wrong with poor people is they don't have any money, which happens to be a curable… — Bill Strickland Copy Share Image
“In her experience people had worries or they had tons of money, not both.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“... money should not be spent according to what the West considers the most dramatic kind of suffering.” — William Easterly Copy Share Image
“Money sure does have an effect on people. It makes them more unfettered, independent, free. It makes them want more from life!” — Vasily Mahanenko Copy Share Image
“Money is just padding. It can be used to shelter you from some things, but there’s no sheltering from other things like love and… — Tijan Copy Share Image
“If you fear poverty, poverty will chase you down. If you fear wealth, wealth will evade you. Fear and money are horrible companions. Infact,… — Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr Copy Share Image
“People worried too much about their children. Suffering when you're young is good for you. It immunized your body and soul...” — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
“If only money was as capable of caring about people as much as people care about money.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
“Those of us with illnesses are the holders of the silent fears of those with good health.” — Elisabeth Tova Bailey Copy Share Image
“When fear is bigger than the benefit, it stops us from taking action.” — Jonathan Green 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
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
