David Foster Wallace Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• The sound of wind had become, for me, silence. When it went away, I was left with the squeak of the blood in my head and the aural glitter of all those little eardrum hairs quivering like a drunk in withdrawal.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hair, Blood, Wind

  "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again" by David Foster Wallace, www.nytimes.com. 1997.

• So which is the lie? Hard or soft? Silence or time?

  David Foster Wallace

  Lying, Silence, Hard

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Brief Interviews With Hideous Men”, p.13, Hachette UK

• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Swimming, Boys

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