David Foster Wallace Quotes About Choices

Quotes about: Choices

• In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Choices, Atheism

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

  David Foster Wallace

  Worship You, Choices, Yahweh

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot or will not exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Exercise, Thinking

  "This Is Water". David Foster Wallace's commencement speech at Kenyon College, www.youtube.com. May 21, 2005.

• There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Spiritual, Ethical Principles

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

• There are no choices without personal freedom, Buckeroo. It's not us who are dead inside. These things you find so weak and contemptible in us - these are just the hazards of being free.

  David Foster Wallace

  Choices, Being Free, Hazards

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

• The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.

  David Foster Wallace

  Real, Choices, Childhood

  "The Pale King". Book by David Foster Wallace, 2011.

• To experience commitment as the loss of options, a type of death, the death of childhood's limitless possibility, of the flattery of choice without duress-this will happen, mark me. Childhood's end.

  David Foster Wallace

  Commitment, Loss, Choices

• What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?

  David Foster Wallace

  Choices, What If, Temples

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “Infinite Jest”, p.84, Hachette UK

• a large percentage of bright young men and women locate the impetus behind their career choice in the belief that they are fundamentally different from the common run of man, unique and in certain crucial ways superior, more as it were central, meaningful - what else could explain the fact that they themselves have been at the exact center of all they've experienced for the whole 20 years of their conscious lives? - and that they can and will make a difference in their chosen field simply by the fact of their unique and central presence to it...

  David Foster Wallace

  Meaningful, Running, Unique

  "Oblivion: Stories (Mister Squishy)". Book by David Foster Wallace, June 8, 2004.

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