David Foster Wallace Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we've never even met?

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "The Oscars Get It All Wrong Again: David Foster Wallace and the Best Film of 2015" by Allen Callaci, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2016.

• Worship power - you will feel weak and afraid, and you will need ever ore power over others to keep the fear at bay. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart - you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Stupid, Smart, Feelings

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

• It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Mean, Order

• 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 admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and futility that presents as a fear of death. It’s maybe close to what people call dread or angst. But it’s not these things, quite. It’s more like wanting to die in order to escape the unbearable feeling of becoming aware that I’m small and weak and selfish and going without any doubt at all to die. It’s wanting to jump overboard.

  David Foster Wallace

  Crush, Selfish, Simple

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: An Essay". Book by David Foster Wallace, 1997.

• I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Thinking, Missing

  David Foster Wallace (2004). “The Broom of the System: A Novel”, p.71, Penguin

• He said she went around with her feelings out in front of her with an arm around the feelings' windpipe and a Glock 9mm. to the feelings' temple like a terrorist with a hostage, daring you to shoot.

  David Foster Wallace

  Feelings, Arms, Temples

• It took years after I’d graduated from Amherst to realize that people were actually far more complicated and interesting than books, that almost everyone else suffered the same secret fears and inadequacies as I, and that feeling alone and inferior was actually the great valent bond between us all. I wish I’d been smart enough to understand that when I was an adolescent.

  David Foster Wallace

  Smart, Book, Years

• I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.

  David Foster Wallace

  Selfish, Feeling Alone, Feelings

  David Foster Wallace (2014). “Girl With Curious Hair”, p.143, Hachette UK

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