David Foster Wallace Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• This appetite to choose death by pleasure if it is available to choose - this appetite of your people unable to choose appetites, this is the death.

  David Foster Wallace

  People, Pleasure, Appetite

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

• ‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

  David Foster Wallace

  Home, Spoons, Chance

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

• The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Vision, Pleasure

• Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.

  David Foster Wallace

  Gdp, Pleasure, Ends

• The basic idea that the purpose of life is to be happy or is to experience the most favorable ratio of pleasure to suffering or productivity to work or gratification to sacrifice or any of that stuff, which, you know, a couple generations ago, to say that kind of stuff would have made you, you know, a freak - a freak and an Epicurean - and now seems to be so much - simply an unquestioned assumption of the culture that we don't really even talk about it anymore.

  David Foster Wallace

  Couple, Sacrifice, Ideas

  Source: news.stlpublicradio.org

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