David Foster Wallace Quotes About Anxiety

Quotes about: Anxiety

• It did what all ads are supposed to do: create an anxiety relievable by purchase.

  David Foster Wallace

  Anxiety, Marketing, Advertising

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.284, Hachette UK

• That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt. That you will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do. That there is such a thing as raw, unalloyed, agendaless kindness. That it is possible to fall asleep during an anxiety attack. That concentrating on anything is very hard work.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hurt, Kindness, Fall

  "Infinite Jest". Book by David Foster Wallace, February 1, 1996.

• Hideous psychic fallout they'd all endured both in active marijuana-dependency and then in marijuana-detox: the social isolation, anxious lassitude, and the hyperself-consciousness that then reinforced the withdrawal and anxiety - the increasing emotional abstraction, poverty of affect, and then total emotional catalepsy - the obsessive analyzing, finally the paralytic stasis that results from obsessive analysis of all possible implications of both getting up from the couch and not getting up from the couch.

  David Foster Wallace

  Marijuana, Emotional, Psychics

• There's a weird kind of paradox that the more expensive the vacation is, the more potentially anxiety-producing it is.

  David Foster Wallace

  Vacation, Anxiety, Kind

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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