Old man Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Having Tombstone Lies Promising Old man Promising Old Tombstone Tombstone Says
“It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.” — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“And the tombstone will never answer. Because the dead have only the voices we give to them.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“It is brutal. Only I never could see the sense in having folks look at your tombstone and say, 'He was a man who… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
“She glanced around at the tombstones. “You’re surrounded by death here. Way too depressing. You really might want to think about getting another job.”… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
“I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“You’re unlikely to find death anywhere near a tomb. Everyone there is already dead. Death’s business is among the living.” — A. Lee Martinez Copy Share Image
“People like him, who buried their past so determinedly, should not help it from the grave so easily.” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
“Us in the graveyard, we wants you to stay alive. We wants you to surprise us and disappoint us and impress us and amaze… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Each tombstone was like the cover of a book that had been sealed forever.” — Marina Nemat 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
“You’d better keep her tied.” “Why?” A yawn stretched Hunter’s dark face. “Because she’s looking skittish.” “She’s naked.” Sheathing his knife, Hunter flopped on… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
The old men of the village of Mahotière say that the Mistress of the Water is a mulatto woman. At midnight she comes out… — Jacques Roumain Copy Share Image
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan Copy Share Image
Therefore, brethren, pray until God gives us revelation so that "knowing this" in our spirit we may truly confess "that our old man has… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
There was an Old Man of Messina, Whose daughter was named Opsibeena; She wore a small wig, and rode out on a pig, To… — Edward Lear Copy Share Image
“You think people was meaner then than they are now? the deputy said. The old man was looking out at the flooded town. No,… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“IN the year 1888 Herr von Pasenow was seventy, and there were people who felt an extraordinary and inexplicable repulsion when they saw him… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
“He wants to dream like a young man with the wisdom of a old man, he wants his home and securities, he wants to… — Bob Seger Copy Share Image
The true love suddenly broken, not only but like the old man who has lost the stick — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’m 59 and people call me middle aged. How many 118 year old men do you know? — Barry Cryer Copy Share Image
The barman sidled toward them out of a back room. He was a grump-looking old man with a great deal of a long gray… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
