"To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we recoil fro...
I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.
~ David Foster Wallace ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.
More David Foster Wallace quotes
"You get to decide what to worship.
"... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always "frontal" lobotomy;but was there any other kind?K...
"You might consider how to escape from a cage must surely require, foremost, awareness of the fact of the cage.
"Um um um um um. This business of—this business about marketing yourself, there’s nothing wrong with that. Unless we’re allowed to think that that’s—th...
"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 dramatize how dark a...
"You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, y...
"I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admix...
"I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choic...
"I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and those who are not. I do not find terror exciting. I...
"When a solipsist dies ... everything goes with him.
"The so-called 'psychotically depressed' person who tries to kill herself doesn't do so out of quote 'hopelessness' or any abstract conviction that lif...
"When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds like you just get like really sad, you get quiet and...
"...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
"JAY: Why is a story more upfront than life?LENORE: It just seems more honest, somehow.JAY: Honest meaning closer to the truth?LENORE: I smell trap.JAY...