Emotions Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““I don't think irony's meant to synergize with anything as heartfelt as sadness.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Emotions Irony Sadness
“What a cruel irony it is, that we get to choose our thoughts but not our feelings.” — Justin Wetch Copy Share Image
“The worst thing about irony for me is that it attenuates emotion.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“the thing about irony is you never see it coming; that's how you know it's there.” — Richard Christian Matheson Copy Share Image
“Irony was new to her and tasted oddly good, like a previously unavailable summer fruit. Soon, she and the rest of them would be… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
“I think the main function of contemporary irony is to protect the speaker from being interpreted as naive or sentimental.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you ever don't see irony, it's because you're not seeing everything.” — Eric Hirzel Copy Share Image
“Solemnity has its limits, it invites derision. But irony is corrosive, it never ends. ” — P.F. Kluge Copy Share Image
“Looking back, I imagine that I was very odd, that I spoke too loudly, or that I said nothing when things of popular culture… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“Irony has always seemed the best approach to life, the best way to keep it at arm's length.” — Lawrence Thornton 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
William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
On stage, you can bring all those strong emotions that you don't have the opportunity to live. You don't want to die for love… — Sylvie Guillem Copy Share Image
You will never fully understand how much you mean to me, because there are no amount of words that can begin to describe my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of course I like you. It's because I like you I don't wanna be with you. It's a complicated emotion. — Marlin Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
Instead of asking a girl how she feels, try looking through her recently listened to songs. The lyrics are the answer to all your… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Its a lack of clarity that creates chaos and frustration. Those emotions are poison to any living goal. — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
For war to man, like childbirth to women, is simplifying in its emotions and activities. All the real problems of life can be put… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
“When love carries us away on its brittle wings, we are too intoxicated to comprehend its power. We just want to soar and feel… — Balroop Singh Copy Share Image
