David Foster Wallace Quotes About Heroism

Quotes about: Heroism

• True heroism is minutes, hours, weeks, year upon year of the quiet, precise, judicious exercise of probity and care—with no one there to see or cheer. This is the world.

  David Foster Wallace

  Cheer, Exercise, Years

  David Foster Wallace (2011). “The Pale King”, p.19, Penguin UK

• 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.

• I believe I want adult sanity, which seems to me the only unalloyed form of heroism available today.

  David Foster Wallace

  Believe, Heroism, Adults

  "The Unfinished" by D. T. Max, www.newyorker.com. March 9, 2009.

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